* A word expressinfr the idea of HtetulfatdneHft OTfaiVifaJneafi, mi{,'ht, no doubt, if jiinited to a relation towards a particular person, pass readily into that of Jtdelity, or lot/dltif, towards him ; and this, af^alh, might pass on into that of belief, or fnith, in him ; but there is no evidence that this Heb. word passed actually throufjh these possible ch3nt,'es of meaning.
+ t'omp. similar instances of enlarged meanings in Eo 92^'- 29 1018. M, ]5ph4»etc.
one legend, — based, no doubt, upon a connexion fancifully established between the command, 'Go, set a watchman,' in Is 'IV' and the words of llab 2' ' 1 will siaml upon my watch," — 11. was supposed to have been the .sentinel set by l.saiah to watch for the fall of Habylou ! Some of the later Kabbis, connecting his name with the words in 2 K 4'" 'Thou shall embrace a son,' imagined him even to be the son of the Shunammite woman, whom Elisha restored to life. In the LXX text of l?el and the Dragon, as given in the Cod. C'hisianus (.Swete, vol. ill. ]]p. xii. oHt!'), this story is pn'faced by the W(.)rds ^k TrpoiprfTtias ' AfjL[iaKoufx vioO 'Itttov, (k TTJs cpfX^s Xevl, showing both that this story was taken from an apocryphal work attributed to Ilabakkuk, and also that the prophet was de- scribed ill it as ihe son of Jesus (.loshua, or Jeshua), and of the tribe of Levi, What authority there may have been for the statement that his fatlier was 'ItjctoOs, we do not know: the descrip- tion of him as belonging to the tribe of I,evi may be merely an inference from the exjire.ssion in 8'", quoted above* According to the 'Lives' of the prophets, which, in two recensions, are attriimted respectivelv to noroiheus (in the Chron. I'asch., under (11. TO, ed. Dind. IK','2, i. '28i) and Kpipliiinlus (Opp. Ui-22 or 1082, ii. 247 f.), he was of the tribe of Simeon, ^^ dypoO ]It}6i toO Xdp(ICpiph. (^ dypoO BijCfoxw), which Delitzsch thinks may be the liaiBiaxapia- where Antlochus Kupator defeated Judas .Maccalia^us (1 Mac 6''--^), — though this was not in Simeon, but in Judah, 70 stadia from I5eth- zur (Jos. Ant. XII. ix, 4), and the modern Ueit- Sakariyeh, about 10 miles S.W. of .lerusalem (Rob. BJiP iii. 284). The same writers relate further, that when Nebuchadrezzar ad\aiiced against Jcru.salem H. fled to Oslrakine (now Straki), a city on the Egyptian coast, 20 miles from the Uhinocorura, but that, after the Clial- dieans had withdrawn, he returned to bis own lands, where he died and was buried, two years before the return of the Jews from liabylon (l!.c. .5.j8). Eusebius states In one place (Onont. 24(i, 08) that his tomb was .shown at Gabatha ((ilbeah), elsewhere (2.J0, :! ; 270, o.j), that it was shown at Echelah or Keella (Keilali), — 12 and 18 miles, re- spectively, S. \V. of Jerusalem; and, according to Sozonieii (lIE vii. 20), the site of his grave, at or near Keilali, was revealed in a dream to Zebennus, bishop of ICleutheropolis. In the -Middle Ages, however, it was said by Jewish writers that II. was burled at Ilukkok (Jos 19"), in the tribe of Napbtali, a Utile N.E. of Tabor. The most widely diffused tradition about II. is that found in Uel and the Dragon ■'"' , according to which H., while carrying pottage to his reapers, was suddenly directed by an angel to carry it to Daniel, who had been cast a second time, by Ciinia, into the lions' den in Babylon : upon prolesiing that In- had never seen Babylon, and did not know where the den w.os, he was lifted up miraculously by a lock of his hair (cf. Ezk 8-') and carried through the air to Babylon ; having there provided Daniel with his rep.ist, he was immediately taken back by the angel to his own place. Later Jewish writers, and many of the Fathers, allude to the same legend.!
* Thonirh. as Kcil observes, it could, at least, not be derived from tlie l-.\\ ; for that does not express the pron. 7Hy.
t Si-e furtiuT, on the legend.i referred to above, the references and discussion in Ilelitzsrh. Ue llab. Propfi. vita afi/tie tt-titte (Grimae. ISH). |.p. Vl-Wl. The story of Bel ond the Drap)n quoteil w'''. p. -i- f. ) by ILaymundus ^iartini (c. I'i.'iu) in a IVu-m agreeing substantiallv with that of the Syriac version, from a .\lidrash called by hiili the Berenhlth liahljiih (not the .Midrash generally known' by that name), the authenticity of which has been doiibted (see 'ih. p, ;i4>, has been found recently In nearly the same form in a .MS. published by Neubauer, in which it i.s stated to be excerpted from the Midrash Rtthhah de litthbah (The Bonk of Tobit, 1S7S, pp. viii, xiv, xci-ii, 89-43; cf. the Speaker^s Coinin, to the Apocr. ii. 344 f )
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LiTBRATmE. — Delitzsch, Der Proph. Hab. ails')'!-'!! 1S43 (very full); Ewald, J'rophrten (iii. 27 ff. in the tr.); Hitzig, Keil, Pu8ey, Orelli, WcIUiausen, Nowack, and G, A. Smith m their Comm. on the Miner I'nyphfU ; A. B. Davidson (in the Camb. Bible /or Scftt>oU); F. W. Farrar in the Minor PrtpheU ('Men of the Bible'); A. F. Kirkpatrick, Doctriiw of the Pro- pht^U ; and the orta. quoted above. y, K. DRIVER.