Channcy, Isaac, an English Nonconformist di- vine (son of Charles Chauncy 1st [q. v.]), was one of the ministers <^ected in 1662, and afterwards becune pastor of a Congregational church at Andover. In 1687 he became pastor of the Independent Chorcb in London, which had previoudy been Dr. John Owen's.
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In 1704 he retired Arom the miniatry, and was profess- or of divinity for several years in the Dissenters* Acad- emy in London. He died Feb. 28, 1712. Among liis writings are, Tke Divine InatUutUm of CcmgregaHonal CJmrckeg.'—Tke Docbrim according to GodUnett (in catechetical form ; Lond. 1787, 12mo) : — Neonomkmimn wmadeed (Lond. 1682).— Calamy , Noncoi^ormutt' Me- sior»d;ii,617.
Chazir. See Swnrs.
die'bar (Heb. Kihar\ ^^^, perhaps fhnn its length; Sept. XojiAp), a river in the '* land of the Chal- deans" (Ezek. i, 8), i. e. apparently of Mesopotamia (oomp. 2 Kings xxiv, 15), on the banks of which some of tlie Jews were located at the time of the captiyity, and where Ezekiel saw his earlier visions (Ezek. i, 1 ; in, 15, 28; x, 15,20, 28; xliii,8). It is commonly re- garded as identical with the Habor (^i^H)* ^ ^^^ of Goaan, to which some portion of the Israelites were removed by the Assyrians (2 Kings xvii, 6). But this is a mere conjecture, resting wholly upon the similar- ity of name, which, after all, is not very dose. It is perhaps better to suppose the two streams distinct, more especially if we regard the Habor as the ancient Chaboras (modem Khabour), which fsU into the Eu- phrates at Circesium, for in the Old Testament the name of Chaldsoa is nerer extended so far northward. The Chebar of Ezekiel must be looked for in Baby- lonia. It is a name which might properly have been given to any grettt stream (comp. *^^3, grea(). Per- haps the view, which finds some support in Pliny (JT*. y. vi, 26), and is adopted by Bochart iPhaleg, i, 8) and Cellarins (Geograph, c. 22), that the Chebar of Esekiel is the JVoAr MaXcka^ or Royal Canal of Nebuchadnezzar —the greatest of all the cuttings in Mesopotamia — ^may be regarded as best deserving acceptance. In that cose we may suppose the Jewish captives to%ave been employed in the excavation of the channeL That Chaldca, not Upper Mesopotamia, was the scene of Ezekiel's preaching, is indicated by the tradition which places his tomb at Keffil (Loftus*s Chaldaa^ p. 85).~ Smith, s. T. See Ezbribl.
Chebel (^^n, cht'bd; usually rendered in the older versions <r;(^oiVur/ia, trtpifurpoVj Tnpixiitpov ; re- giojfwteultts)j one of the singular topographical terms (q. V.) in which the ancient Hebrew language abound- . ed, and which add so much force and precision to its records. The ordinary meaning of the word is a "rope" or " cord ;'* and in this sense it frequently oc- curs both Uterally (as Josh, ii, 15, "coid;" 1 Kings XXX, 31, "ropes;" Isa. xxxiU, 28, "tacklings;" Amos vii, 17, '^line**) and metaphorically (as Eccles. xii, 6 ; Isa. V, 18 ; Hob. xi, 4). From this it has passed— with a carious correspondenoe to our own modes of speech —to denote a body of men, a " band" (as in Psa. cxix, 61). In 1 Sam. x, 5, 10, our word " string" would not be inappropriate to the ciroumstances — "a string of prophets coming down from the high place." Further H is found in other metaphorical senses, arising out of its original meaning (as Job xviii, 10 ; Psa. xviii, 4 ; Jer. xiii, 21). From the idea of a measuring-Une (B(ic. ii, 5), it has come to mean a "portion" or "allotment" (•8 1 Chwm. xvi, 18 ; Psa. cv,,ll ; Ezek. xlvii, 18). It is the word used in the ikmiliar passage ** the Imet are fallen unto me in pleasant places" (Psa. xvi, 6). But in its topographiod sense, as meaning a "tract" or "district," we find it always attached to the region of Argob, which is invariably designated by this, and by no other term (Dent, ill, 4, 18, 14 ; 1 Kings iv, 18). Its propriety is illustrated by ablate traveller in those re- gions, who shows the abrupt definiteness of the bound- vy of the district (Graham, in Cambridge Esiogt, 1858). A comparison of the fkct that Argob was taken posses- sion of by Hanas8eb--a part of the great tribe of Joseph —with the use of this word by that tribe, and by Joshua in Us retort) in the very early and chaxacterifftic fo-
ment, Josh, xvii, 5, 14 (A. Y. "portion**), prompts the suggestion that it may have been a provincialism in use among that large and independent part of Israel. Or its application to the "rocky shora" of Argob may be illustrated and justified by its use (Zeph. ii, 5-7 ; A.y. "coast**) for the "coast Une** of the Mediter- ranean along Philistia. In connection with the sea- shore it is also employed in Josh, xix, 29. — Smith, s. v. See Aboob.
Checker (h;nto,«e5al9a&^l Kings Tii, 17). The original term, thus rendered, is the same as that trans- lated net-work in the context, and signifies a laUice forming the habutrade surmounting the capitals of columns.
Chedek. See Thobv.