2. (Sept. Baodp v. r. Baadv.) The sixth named of the eleven sons of Zophah, of the descendants of Asher (1 Chron. vii, 36). B.C. post 1658.
Be'zeth (Bi£i6), a place at which Bacchides en- camped after leaving Jerusalem, and where there was a "great pit" (rb typiap to /i<sy«, 1 Mace, vii, 19). By Josephus (Ant. xii, 10, 2) the name is given (in the ac- count parallel with 1 Mace, ix, 4) as "the village Beth-zetho" (koj/uj B>j0£jj0w Xiyopivi)), which recalls the name applied to the Mount of Olives in the early Syriac recension of the N. T. published by Mr. Cure- ton — Beth-Zaith (which, however, is simply a transla- tion of the name = Heb. I"HT t"P3, olive-house^. The name may thus refer either to the main body of the Mount of Olives, or to the eminence opposite it to the north of Jerusalem, which at a later period was called Bezetiia (q. v.). Pococke (East, II, i, 19) speaks of seeing "a long cistern" in this quarter of the city, and several tanks are delineated here on modern plans of Jerusalem. — Smith, s. v.
Bezetha (BC&d), the name of the fourth hill on which a part of Jerusalem was built, situated north of Antonia, from winch it was separated by a deep fosse, but not enclosed till the erection of the third wall by Agrippa, according to Josephus (War, v, 4, 2), who interprets the name as equivalent to "New City" (kchvi) 7ro\u), perhaps regarding it as the Heb. rP2 rtw'in ; but as this can hardly be considered a repre- sentative of the name, and as Josephus elsewhere ( War, ii, 19, 4) seems expressly to distinguish Bezetiia from Ccenopolis or the New City (ti')v re BtL,e$di> iipon- ayoptvoptvrjv Kai r>)v KaivoiroXiv, unless, as Reland suggests, Palest, p. 855, we should read r>)v i:ai Kai- vu7To\u>, making them identical), we may perhaps better adopt the derivation given above under the Bezetii ((«. v.) of 1 Mace, vii, 19. The general posi- tion of thi' hill is clear; but it has been nevertheless disputed whether it should be regarded as the emi- nence north of the present Damascus gate (Robinson, Bibl. Res. i, 392; Bib. Sue. 1846, p. 438 sq.) or (as is more probable) that immediately north of the present Haram enclosure (Williams, Holy City, ii, 50). See Jerusalem.
Beziers, one of the earliest episcopal sees in France. Quite a number of synods have been held at Beziers : A.D. 356, on account of the Ariaus; 1234 and 1243,
against the Albigenses ; and in 1279, 1299, and 1351, on account of other ecclesiastical controversies.
Bi'atas ($>taSdg v. r. QaXiae., Vulg. Philias), one
' of the Levites that expounded the law to the Jews at Jerusalem as read by Ezra (1 Esdr. ix, 48); evidently a corruption for the Pelaiaii (q. v.) of the genuine text (Neh. viii, 7).
Biathan^ti (from ftia, violence, and Bdvaror, <l<:tti, ). Among other reproachful epithets applied by the pa- gans to Christians in the first centuries we find Bi t- ihanati, self-murderers, imposed in consequence of their contempt of death, and cheerful endurance of all kinds of suffering for Christ's sake. AVe also meet with the term Biothanati Qiioc, I' ft), men who expect to live after death. The enemies of the ( Ihristians might em- ploy this phrase to ridicule the doctrine of the resur- rection of the dead. It is recorded in Bede's Martyr- olory that when the seven sons of Symphorosa were martyred under Hadrian, their bodies wore cast into one pit together, which the temple-priests named from them Ad septem Biothanutos. — Bin-ham, Orig. Eccles. bk. i, eh. ii, § 8 ; Farrar, Eccles. Diet. s. v.
Bibbighaus, Henry, D.D., a minister of the Ger- man Kel'ornied Church, was born in Bucks County, Penn., Aug. 2d, 1777. He was first merchant, then farmer; later, organist, and teacher of a parochh.1 school in Philadelphia. He studied theology private-
1 ly ; was licensed and ordained in 1824, in the forty- eighth year of his age. He became past* r of the German Reformed Salem Church, Philadelphia, where he continued to labor with great zeal and success till his death, Aug. 20th, 1851. He is remembered as a mild, modest, venerable father in the Church. He was a good preacher, a faithful pastor, and always ex- erted a strong and happy influence in the judicatories
: of the Church. He preached only in the German language.
Bibb-ins, Elisha, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Hampton, N. Y., July 10, 1790; was con- verted November 8, 1805; was licensed to preach in January, 1812, and was admitted on trial in the Gen- esee Conference in JuPy of the same year. He was for twelve years of his ministry in the effective ranks, three years a supernumerary, and thirty-two years a superannuated preacher. Mr. Bibbins was a man of good natural abilities. His powers of perception were quick, and his reasoning faculties vigorous. His sensibilities were strong and well disciplined. He had
I a strong sense of the ludicrous. He was always in
' earnest, a quality which gave almost overwhelming power to his sermons, exhortations, and prayers. He was a good theologian, but a better preacher. In his best moods he poured out a torrent of eloquence which was very effective, lie was a man of noble impulses,