Bangs, Stephen Beekman, a prominent young Methodist preacher, son of the Rev. Heman Bangs, was born in New York in 1823. graduated at the N. Y. University in 1843, and was licensed to preach in the following year, joining the N. Y. Conference. His style of preaching excited strong anticipations of great usefulness, which were, however, disappointed by his early death, March 20,1846 — Magruder, Memoir of 3. B. Bangs (New York, 1853); Minutes of Conferences, iv,3I.
Bangs, William M'Kendree, son of the Rev. Nathan Bangs, D.D., was born in New York, Decem- i ber 15, 1810, and graduated at 19 years of age at the | University of Ohio with the highest honors. He was immediately offered a professorship in Augusta Col- lege, Ky., which he held for only one year, being im- pressed with the dut}' of entering the Christian minis- try. In 1831 he entered the N. Y. Conference of the M. E. Church, and continued to labor, except when his I feeble health compelled him to desist, till his death in 1852. His logical powers were of the highest order, and his command of language rarely equalled. "Whether conversing familiarly with his friends, discussing some difficult abstract question, or preaching to a congre- gation, his style was remarkably adapted to the sub- J ject and the occasion. His sermons were clear, sys- j tematic, easy to be understood, neither encumbered by extraneous matter, nor disfigured by learned pedantry. They were characterized by a beautiful simplicity, and 1 always bore the impress of a great mind." As a con- troversial writer he excelled greatly; his articles in the Methodist Quarterly Review, especially those of 1836 and 1837, in reply to the "Christian Spectator," and his reviews of Watson's Theo/oyind. Institutes, are fine specimens of analytical as well as comprehensive thinking. — Minutes of Conferences, v, 211 ; Sprague, Annals, vii, 773.
Ba'ni (Heb. Bani', h53, built; Sept. usually Bavl, sometimes Boui'i or Bavov't, etc.), the name of at least five men.
1. A Levite, son of Shamer, and father of Amzi, of the family of Gershon (1 Chron. vi, 46). B.C. long ante 1043*
2. A Gadite, one of David's thirty-seven warriors (2 Sam. xxiii, 3G). B.C. 1046.
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3. A descendant <>f Pharez, and father of Imri, one I parentlv a corruption for Zabad (q. v.) of the genuine of whose descendants returned from Babylon (1 Chron. text (Ezra x, 33).
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ix, 4). B.C. long ante 536.
4. One of the heads of families whose retainers to the number of 642 returned from Babylon with Zerub- babel (Ezra ii. 1"; x, 29, 34 ; Neh. x, 14; 1 Esdr. v, 12). 11.- is elsewhere (Neh. vii, 15) called Binnui (q. v.). See also Banid. He was himself one of those who di- vorce'1 their heathen wives (Ezra x. 38). Others consider this last a different person, and identify him with some, of those referred to below. B.C. 536-410.
5. A Levitc, whose son Rehum repaired a portion of the (branch) wall of Jerusalem skirting the brow of Mount Zion on the east (Neh. iii, 17). Apparently the same Bani was among those who were conspicuous in all the re- forms on the return from Babylon (Neh. viii, 7 ; ix, 4 twice, 5 ; x, 13). He had another son named Uzzi, who was appointed overseer of the Levites at Jeru- salem ; his own father's name was Hashabiah (Neh. xi, 22). B.C. 446-410. See Chenani.
Ba'nid (Baviag v. r. Bavi; Vulg. Banid), the an- cestor or family-head of one of the parties (that of As- salimoth, son of Josa, with 160 retainers) that returned from Babylon with Ezra (1 Esd. viii, 36). This rep- resents a name, Bani (q. v.), which has apparently escaped from the present Hebrew text (Ezra viii, 10).
Banish (found in the Auth. Vers, only in the forms "banished," Heb. m?, niddach', 2 Sam. xiv, 13, 14, out- cast, as elsewhere ; and " banishment," Heb. DTIWi, madduch
ductions; Chald. rzJTJ or "<^'2 , sheroshu' or sheroshi', lit. a rooting out, Ezra vii, 26). This was not a pun- ishment enjoined by the Mosaic law; but after the captivity, both exile and forfeiture of property were introduced among the Jews ; and it also existed under the Romans, by whom it was called d'minntio capitis, because the person banished lost the rights of a citi- zen, and the city of Rome thereby lost a head. But there was another description of exile termed disporta- >'">, which was a punishment of greater severity. The party banished forfeited his estate, and, being bound, was put on board ship and transported to some island specified by the emperor, there to be confined in per- petual banishment (see Smith's Diet, of Class. Antiq. s. v. Banishment). In this manner the apostle John was exiled to the little island of I'atmos (Rev. i, 9). See Exile.
Bank. In Luke xix, 23, the Greek word Tpairtfa, table, is rendered "bank" in the modern sense of the term, which, by a similar appropriation, is derived from the same root as bench. In Matt, xxi, 12; Mark xi, 15; and John ii, 15, it is employed literally, and de- notes Hi' ••table" ,,f the money-changer '(q. v.), at which he satin the market-place, as is still the custom '" ""' East, and also in the outer court of the Temple. In oiler passages it denotes an ordinary table for food. '"' "bank," rttb, soldah', also occurs in 2 Sun. xx. 15; 2 Ki„,s xix, 3.'; Isa. xxxvii, 33, as the named the mound raised against a besieged city; it "'" rendered "mount" in the same sense.