J. F. STENNING.
NADAB (273).—1. (Ναδάβ) the eldest son of Aaron (Ex 6%, Nu 3? 26” [all Pj, 1 Ch 6% Heb. 65] 941), Along with his father, his brother Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, he accompanied Moses to Sinai, and ‘saw the God of Israel’ (Ex 24}. 56. [probably J]); was admitted, along with his three brothers, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, and their father Aaron, to the priestly office (Ex 28} [P]); and on the very day of his consecration (Lv 1015. compared with ch. 9) he and Abihu perished (Ly 101-2, No 3* 26% [all Ῥ], 1 Ch 945) for offering ‘strange fire’ (77 Ux, LXX πῦρ ἀλλότριον), ἵ.6. strange to the requirements of the law. Wherein the transgression of Nadab and Abihu is supposed to have consistedis not clear. It is often suggested that ‘ strange’ fire means fire taken from a common source instead of from the altar (cf. Τῶν 1613, Nu 17" (Eng. 16“}), but, as Dillm. remarks, in that case we should expect in Τὰν 10! not πη; τὸν sap but 2A “ ON 153. erhaps &y should be taken in the sense of πον ‘an offering made by fire,’ in which case the offence may have lain in presenting an wnautho- rized (cf. ops ayy 85 wy, ‘which he commanded them not,’ ν.}) offering. It is possible at the same time, but not certain (see Dillm.), that the writer may have had in view the prescriptions of Ex 8075. * regarding the offering of incense. In v.* (which, however, probably belong to a later stratum of P) Aaron and his surviving sons are forbidden to mourn for the victims of the Divine judgment. There is not the slightest warrant for the idea (found in the Midrash and in Aphraates, Hom. 14, and repeated even in modern times) that the prohi- bition (v.®*) against the use of wine or stron drink by priests on duty implies that Nadab an Abihu were intoxicated when they committed their fatal offence. Any superficial plausibility which this notion might derive from the context is entirely taken away is the circumstance that v.® are really a fragment, having no connexion with either v." or v.°.
2. A Jerahmeelite family name, 1Ch 2%-™ (Nadds). 38. A Gibeonite family name, 1 Ch 8” (B "Add, A Ναδάβ) -- 955 (BA Ναδάβ).
4. A king of Israel, son of Jeroboam, 1 K 14% (A Ναβάτ; the passage is wanting in RB). He reigned for two years (c. 915-914. B.C.), 15%. While engaged
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in besieging Gibbethon, which was then in the Rapp of the Philistines, he was assassinated »y Baasha, who seized the throne and extirpated the dynasty of Jeroboam, v.7, In vv.%-7 B has Ναβάθ, in v.*! Ναβάτ, while A has in all these passages Ναδάβ, J. A. SELBIE.
NADABATH (A Ναδαβάθ). --- An unidentified town (?), east of the Jordan, in the neighbourhood of which a wedding party of the sons of Jambri was attacked, and many of them slain, by Jona- than and Simon the Maccabees, 1 Mac 9°. Josephus (Ant. XIII. i. 4) gives the name as Γαβαθά (cf. § Γαβαδάν) ; Syr. has Nabath; Vulg. Madaba (i.e. Medeba), as in preceding verse.
NAGGAI (Nayyal, AV Nagge).—An ancestor of Jesus, Lk 3%. It is the Greek form of the Heb. name 72) Nogah (which see).
NAHALAL ($n, in Jg 1% $b) Nahalol).—A town of Zebulun (Jos 19"), given to the Levites21*. Its inhabitants were not expelled by the Zebulunites, but were made tributary, Jg 1%. In all these three
assages the LXX readings are corrupt (Jos 191 where AV has incorrectly Nahallal]: B Βαιθμάν, A Νααλώλ ; Jos 21%; B Σελλά, A Δαμνά; Jg 1%: B Δωμανά, A 'Evauudv). The place seems to have been unknown in the 4th cent. A.D. A suitable site ἰδ ὑπ Mdéhil, north of Nazareth, on the hill which formed the limit of Zebulun to the east, above the plateau of Tabor belonging to Naphtali. Another site which has been advocated (e.g. by Schwarz, Knobel, van de Velde), is Mall, a village west of Nazareth, and on the south border of Zebulun. The towns of Zebulun are so little known that either site becomes possible. The anbetitution of J for N is not uncommon.
LrreraTurE.—SWP vol. i. sheets v. vi. ; Guérin, Galilée, i, 887 1. ; Dillm. on Jos 1989 ; Neubauer, Géog. du Talm. 189.
C. R. CONDER.
NAHALIEL (5bn3 ‘torrent-valley of God’; B Mava(va)j\ [the letters in brackets are inserted above the line), A Νααλιήλ ; the word is imperfect in F; Lue. Ναχαιήλ ; Vulg. Nahaliel).—A station in the journey from the Arnon to Jericho (Nu 21° (JE) only), either Wady Waleh, a N.E. tributary of the Arnon (see Bliss’s map in PEF St, 1895, Ρ. 204, and οἵ. p. 215), or the Wady Zerka Ma'in,
arther north, which runs into the Dead Sea (see G. A. Smith, HGHL p. 561f.). The name does not occur in the itinerary of Nu 33.
A. T. CHAPMAN.
NAHALLAL, NAHALOL.—See NAHALAL.
NAHAM (o0n3).— The father of Keilah the Garmite, 1 Ch 4° (B Ναχέθ, A Nayéu, Lue. Ναούμ).
NAHAMANTI (‘32n3).—One of the twelve heads of the Jewish community, Neh 77 (B Naepavel, A Ναεμανί, Luc. Ναιμανί), omitted in the parallel passage Ezr 2%. In 1 Es 5° he is called Eneneus (RVm Enenis; B Ἔνηνις, A ἘἜννήνιος, Luc. Neuavi)