Benaiah appears to have bad a son called, after his grandfather, Jehoiada, who succeeded Ahithophel about the person of the king (1 Chron. xxvii, 34). But this i- possibly a copyist's mistake for "Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada."— Smith, s. v.
2. A Pirathonite of the tribe of Ephraim, one of David's thirty mighty men (2 Sam. xxiii, :'.0; 1 Chron. xi. ::i i. and the captain of the eleventh monthly course (1 Chron. xxvii, 14). B.C. 1044. See David.
3. A Levite in the time of David, who "played with a psaltery on Alamoth" at the removal of the
ark il Chron. xv, 18, 20; xvi, 6). B.C. 1048.
4. A priest in the time of David, appointed to blow
the trumpet before the ark when brought to.Ierusalcm (1 Chron. xv, 2-1 ; xvi, 6). B.C. I'M.;.
5. 'I'll- -on of Jeiel, and father of Zechariah, a Le- vite ot the Bona of Asaph (2 Chron. xx, 14). B.C, considerably ante 890.
6. A Levite in the time of Hezekiah, one of the
'•overseer- c-n-ps) of offerings" (2 Chron. xxxi 13). B.C. 720.
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7. One of the " princes" (r^X'ip) of the families of Simeon who dispossessed the Amalekites from the pasture-grounds of Gedor (1 Chron. iv, CO). B.C. cir. 713.
8. The father of Pelatiah, which latter was "a prince of the people" in the time of Ezekiel (xi, 1, 13). B.C. ante 571.
9. One of the " sons" of Parosh, who divorced his Gentile wife after the return from Babvlon (Ezra x, 25). B.C. 458.
10. Another Israelite, of the "sons" of Pahath- moab, who did the same (Ezra x, 30). B.C. 458.
11. Another, of the "sons" of Bani, who did like- wise (Ezra x, 35). B.C. 458.
12. A fourth, of the "sons" of Nebo, who did the same (Ezra x, 43). B.C. 458.
Ben-am'mi (n12t'"'2, son of my kindred, i. e. born of incest; Sept. repeats, 'Afifiav, nioc yivovg fiov), the original form of the name Ammon (q. v.), the son of Lot by his younger daughter (Gen. xix, 38).
Bench (-^p, lce'resli), a j>lank (usually rendered "board"), once the deck of a Tyrian ship, represented (Ezek. xxvii, 6) as inlaid with box-wood. See Ash- lrite. Ben-Dekar. See Ben-.
Bene-b'erak (Heb. Beney' - Berak' , p"13"0:2, sons of Berak or lightning [comp. Boanerges] ; Sept. BavtijSapaK v. r. BavaijiaKar; Vulg. et Bane et Ba- rucK), one of the cities of the tribe of Dan, mentioned only in Josh, xix, 46, between Jehud and Gath-rim- mon. The paucity of information wdiich we -possess regarding this tribe (omitted entirely from the lists in 1 Chron. ii— viii, and only one family mentioned in Num. xxvi) makes it impossible to say whether the "sons of Berak," who gave their name to this place, belonged to Dan, or were, as we may perhaps infer from the name, earlier settlers dispossessed by the tribe. The reading of the Syriac, Baal-debac, favors this latter foreign origin, but is not confirmed by any other version. It is evidently the Baraca, a "village in the tribe of Dan near Azotus," mentioned by Eu- sebius and Jerome (in the Onomasticon, s. v. Barath, BapaKcii), although the}- speak confusedly of its then existing name (Bareca, Bapftd'). It is doubtless the present Moslem village Burdka (Robinson, Researches, iii, App. p. 118), a little north of Ashdod (Van do Velde, Map). The same place appears to be referred to in the Talmud (Sanhedr. xxxii, 1), and was the res- idence of the famous Rabbi Akiba (q. v.). Schwarz, however, disputes this location (Palest, p. 141). Benedet. See Benezet.
Benedicite, or "the song of the three Hebrew children," is a canticle appointed by the rubric of the Church of England to be said or sung at the morning service, instead of the hymn Te Deum, whenever the minister may think fit. It is a paraphrase of the forty- eighth Psalm. In the Book of Common Prayer pub- lished under the sanction of Edward VI, it was ordered that the Te Deum should be said daily throughout the year, except in Lent, when the Benedicite was to be "used. The minister had no choice according to this appointment; but in the subsequent revision of the Prayer Book, the choice was left to the option of the minister to read the Te Deum or the Benedicite. This hymn was sung as early as the 3d century. Chrysos- tom speaks of it as sung in all places throughout the world.— Bingham, Grig. Eccles. bk. xiv, ch. xi, § 6 ; Procter, On Common Prayer, p. 221.
Benedict I, Pope, surnamed Bonosvs, a Roman, elected to the papal see after John III, June 3, 574. He occupied the see about four years, dying in 578. During his pontificate Rome suffered great- ly from the inroads of the Lombards and from fam- ine. Like his predecessors, he confirmed the fifth oecumenical council. An epistle to the Spanish bish-
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op David, which has been ascribed to him, is not genuine.
II, Pope, also a Roman, succeeded Leo II, 26th June, 684, and died 7th May, G85. His incumbency was marked by nothing of note.
III, Tope, elected Sept. 1, 855. His title was dis- puted by Anastasius, who was supported by the em- perors Lothaire and Louis, whose deputies entered Rome, forcibly ejected Benedict, and imprisoned him. Rome was thrown into consternation at these acts ; and the bishops, assembling in spits of the threats of the emperor's deputies, refused to recognise Anasta- sius. Benedict, removed from the church where he had been imprisoned, was carried in triumph by the people to the palace of Later an. In unison with Ethel wolf, king of the Anglo-Saxons, he established an English school at Rome. He confirmed the deposition of Bish- op Gregory of Sj-racuse, pronounced in 85-1 by a syn- od of Constantinople, which occasioned soon after the Greek schism. There are still extant four of bis epis- tles (Mansi, xv, 110-120). He held the see only two years and a half, and died March 10th, 858.