While the humiliations inflicted by Assyria upon the Aramajan kingdom continued, the policy of vassalage to Nineveh pursued by Jehu brought him security, and Israel was safe from aggression from his powerful northern foe, Syria. But the tide was soon to turn. After 839 B.C. we read of no more attacks upon the Syrian kingdom from the shores of the Euphrates for more than 30 years. Meanwhile Syria, with wonderful inherent energy and recuperative power, began once more to show itself able to take the oli'ensive. We learn this from the brief notice which closes the biblical record of Jehu's reign (2 K 10") : ' During that time J" began to cut off (the territories of) Israel, and Uazael smote them in all the borders of Israel,' and in the following verse this is ex-
f>lained as meaning that Israel suffered severe osses of territory along the whole of his eastern dominion on the other side of Jordan. Probably Hazael annexed these territories to his own — the harbinger of further humiliations in store for the dynasty of Jehu, until the tide again turned in favour of Israel under Jeroboam ll.t
Owen C. Whitehousb.
• Schroder, KTB L p. 160, COT' I. p. 199. Respecting th« phrase Jehu, ' son of Omri,' see ib. I. p. 179 and footnote .
t Schrader, KIB I. p. 128 ft.; Bee especially p. 142. For a conspectus of the campaigns of Shalmaneser □., tee Tiele, Bab,» Aityr. Ge^ch. p. 197 ff.
I Here again the success of Israel was cheaply earned through the Intervention of the Assj-rian arms. The terrible disaster Inflicted by Ranun4n-nir4ri in. in 803 on the Aramsean kin^om wu a blow from which it never recovered. Bamm&n-nirari ui.
JEHUBBAH (n;n; Kctldbh, but .fTfn' .i;ri = ' and Hubbah ' is to be preferred [LXX B V.jHp, A ■0/3d, Vulg. .^aia]).— An Asherite, 1 Ch 7". Se« Gknealooy, XII. 5.
JEHUCAL (S;i.-v 'J. is able').— A courtier sent by king Zudekiah, during the siege of Jerus., to entreat for the prayers of Jeremiah (Jer ZV-). Ha is called in Jer 38' Jucal.
JEHDD (nri\ LXX B 'Afii/i, A 'loie, Luc. '\oii).— A town of Dan, named between Baalath and Bene-berak, Jos 19". It is probably the modern d-Yehiidtyeh, 8 miles E. of Joppa, See Dillm. Jos., ad toe; Robinson, BRF\ u. 242; Guiirin, Judie, i. 322; Buhl, GAP 197; SWP vol. iL sheet iii.
JEHUDI (■•I'rr). — A word which generaUy=a Jew, but appears to be a proper name in Jer 3gi4.ai.a J ,yn5 ^j^ officer of Jehoiakim, at whose summons Baruch read to the princes of Judah the roll of Jeremiah's prophecies. J. was afterwards himself emploj-ed to read the roll to the king, but he had not proceeded far when Jehoiakim cut it in pieces and cast it into the fire.
JEHUDIJAH (1 Ch 4'« AV).— See Hajehudijah.
JEHUEL (Swn; Kethtbh, StJ'n; Eere).—A Heman- ite in Hezekiah's reign, 2 Ch "29". See Ge.ve-
ALOGY.
JEIEL (Vn-v;).— 1. A Renbenite, 1 Ch 5'. 2. An ancestor of Saul, 1 Ch 8" (supplied in RV from 9«). 3. One of David's heroes, 1 Ch 11". 4. 3. The name of two Levite families: (a) 1 Ch 15"-" 16'-', 2 Ch 20" ; (6) 2 Ch 35". 6. A scribe in the reign of Uzziah, 2 Ch 26". 7. One of those who had married foreign wives, Ezr 10". In 2. 3. 6 Kethibh has '7!<iv;, Jeuel. See Genealoqy.
JEKABZEEL, Neh U".— See Kabzeel.
JEKAMEAM (dvds;).— 1. A Uvite, 1 Ch 23" 24» In the former of these passages LXX has 'UfMiit, in the latter 'loKi/i (B) or 'I«/ui4 (A). Gray (Reb. P^op. Names, 46 n.) points out that these LXX readings suggest an original ■i-Dp-, but that the other versions on the whole support the MT.
JEKAMIAH (n;VB; 'mav J' strengthen').—!. A Judahite, the son of Shallum, 1 Ch 2*'. 2. A son of king Jeconiah, 1 Ch 3".
JEEUTHIEL (Sx'mp;, perh. 'preservation of God,' possibly same as Vtunj;, see Ox/. Hcb. Lex. t.v., and Gray, Heb. Prop. Names, 307 n 8). — A man of Judah, 1 Ch 4". See Genkaloqy.
JEMIMAH (n=>p;).— The eldest of Job's daughtem born to him after his restoration to prosperity (Job 42"). The LXX and Vulg. render as if^ from D'l' day ; most modems connect with Arab, jem&ma = dove (see, however, Gray, Heb. Prof. Name*, p. 108).
JEMNAAN, Jth 2".— See Jabnbeu
JEMUEL ('>xiD-).— A son of Simeon, On 46", Ex 6" = Nemuel of Nu 26'», 1 Ch 4". The LXX also exhibits both forms, ha\-ing in Gn 'ItiioviiK, in Ex 'Ie/u7J\ (B), in Nu and 1 Ch Na^oi^X.
JEOPARD, JEOPARDY.— The verb to ' jeopard,'
is the 'deliverer' referred to in 2 E 13', and this is a chrono- logical datum of considerable value. See the present writer'! remarks in Schrader, COT^ ii. p. 321.
JEPHTHAH
JEPHTHAU
Jill
that is, hazard, is derived from the subst. jeopardy,' peril, hazard ; aj d that is a corruption
of the Old French jeu part\ 'it. a divided game
(Low La,t. jocus pariitus), i.e. a game in which the
chances are even. Chaucer {Troilus, ii. 4G5) has —
' For myn estat now lyth in jupartye,
And eek luyn ernes [suncle'sj lyf'lyth in balaunce' ;
and (ii. 772)—
* Sholde I now love and putte in Jupartye My silternesae, and tbrailen libertee?*