Esh'taiilite [many Esh' taulite'] (Heb. collect, with the art. ha-Eshtaiili' , ""SXPl'^Nil, Sept. oi 'Ecr.raojXaloi V. r. v'loi 'Eff^ao/ijVulg. Esthaolitce, A.V. " the Eshtau- lites"), the designation of the inhabitants of Eshtaol (q. v.), who, with the Zareathites, were at a later pe- riod among the families of Kirjath-jearim (1 Chron. ii, 53).
Eshtemo'a [many Eshtem' oa] (Heb. Eshtemo'a, ri^ndX [luit defectively "^FldX in 1 Chron.], obe- dience; Sept. in Josh, xxi, 14 'EaSrifuo, in 1 Sam. 'Ec- Bis, in 1 Chron. iv, 17, 19 'EaSraifxojv v. r. 'Ea^ipuv and 'iia^ijfiioi'i), in 1 Chron. vi, 57 [42] 'EaSa/iai v. r. 'EirrVr/taij ; Vulg. Esfkamo, but Estemo in Josh., and Esthemo in 1 Cliron. vi) or Esh'tenioh (Heb. Eshte- moh' , n^Pl'^N, bj^ an interchange of final gutturals, Josh. XV, 50; Sept. 'EaS-t/ioi, Vulg. Istemo), a town of Judah, in the mountains; mentioned between Jattir and Holon (Josh, xxi, 14 ; 1 Chron. vi, 57), and be- tween A nab and Anim (Josh, xv, 50). AVitli its •'sulnirbs" Eshtemoa was allotted to the priests (Josh, xxi, 14; 1 Chron. vi, 57). It was one of the places frequented by David and his followers during the long period of their wanderings ; and to his friends there he sent presents of the spoil of the Amalekites (1 Sam. xxx, 28; comp. ver. 31). In the lists — half genea- logical, half topographical — of the descendants of Ju- dah, Eshtemoa occurs as having been founded or re- built by an Ezrahite called Ishbah (1 Chron. iv, 17) (q. v.), perhaps the same with Kaham of ver. 19 [see Merep], where the place has the dubious epithet of " Maachathite" (q.v.). Others, however, regard the Eshtemoa there named as a 7;6?so?i from Maachah. Eusebius and Jerome simply mention the place as "a very large village" in the Daroma, in the province of Eleutheropolis (CInomast. s. v. 'Ecr^f/(«, Esthemo). There is little doubt that it has been discovered liy Dr. Koliinson at Semu'a, a village seven or eight miles south of Hebron, on the great road from el-lMilh, con- taining considerable ancient remains, and in the neigh- borhood of other villages still bearing the names of its companions in the list of Josh, xv : Debir, Socoh, Jat- tir, etc., and itself the last inhabited place toward the desert (Researches, ii, 194; ccmp. Schwarz, Palest, p. 105). It is a considerable village, situated on a low hill, with broad valleys round about; not susceptible of much tillage, but full of flocks and herds all in fine order. In several places there are remains of walls Iniilt of ver}' large stones, bevelled, but left rough in the middle, several of them more than ten feet in length. There are the ruins of a castle at this place, with one tower tolerably perfect, but it is probably of Saracenic origin (Kobinson, Researches, ii, C27 ; Wil- son, Lands of Bible, i, 355). A citj' Shema is also men- tioned in the south of Judah (Josh, xv, 26) ; too far south, however, to correspond to Semua.
Es'hton (Heb. Eshton', lirTiTN, according to Ge. senilis vxorimis, according to Fiirst careless ; Sept. 'Ac- (7o5(.;7',Vulg. Esthon), a son of Mehir, and grandson of Chelul), of the tribe of Judah (1 Chron. iv,ll). B.C. ante 1018. Among his four sons and one grandson enumerated (ver. 12) as ''the men of Eccah," two (Beth-rapha and Ir-nahash) seem, h<;wever, to bo rath- er names of jilaces.
Eskridge, Vernox, a minister of the Methodist Episcojial Church (South), was born in "Westmoreland County, Va., Oct. 26, 1803. His early education was neglected, and on this account he hesitated to enter the ministry, to which he felt strong leanings ; but on
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the death of his young wife and child he hesitated no longer, and in 1827 he began to preach as an itinerant minister. In this service lie labored faithfully until 1837, when ill health compelled him to retire from the itineracy, though he still preached diligentl}^ as his health would allow. In 1851 he was appointed chap- lain in the U. S. Navj', and during his service in the Cumberland in 185"2 some twenty were converted, in- cluding captain Upshur. On his return to Portsmouth, Va., the yellow fever was raging there. He devoted himself night and day to the service of the sick, and on Sept. 4, 1855, he was taken with the disease, and died Sept. 11. — Sprague, Annals, vii, 735.
Es'li ('EffXt V. r. 'EnXii), son of Naggai and father of Naum, of the maternal ancestors of Christ after the exile (Luke iii, 25) ; apparently identical with Elioe- NAi, the son of Meariah and father of Johanan (1 Chron. iii, 23, 24). Sec Genealogy (of Christ).
Esiie, Esna, or Esneh, " the hieroglyphic Sen, and the Greek Latopolis or LaUmpolis — the citj' of the latns fish or Lafus nohilis, from the fish there ■worshipped — is a small and badly-built town of Ujjper Egypt, and is situated on the left bank of the Nile, in lat. 25° 15' N. The central portion of Esne has edi- fices of colored brick. It contains about 4000 inhabi- tants, of whom 1500 are Copts, and has some manufac- tories of blue cotton and potterj-. There ai'e famous ruins at Esne, which consist of a sandstone temple, with a portico of four rows of six columns, which ap- pears to have been founded b}' Thothmes III, whose name is seen on the jambs of a door. The temple, however, seems to have been restored or principalh' constructed by Ptolemy Euergetes (B.C. 24G-222), and the pronaos was erected in the reign of the emperor Claudius (A.D. 41-54), and completed in that of Ves- pasian. The interior is of the date of Trajan, the An- tonines, and Geta, whose name, erased or replaced by that of Caracalla, is thei'e found. The great temple was dedicated to Chnumis, Satis, and Har-Hek. It has a zodiac like that of Denderah, formerly thought to be of the most remote antiquity, but now known to be no older than the Romans. A smaller temple with a zodiac, erected in the reign of Ptolemy Euergetes, formerly stood at E'Deyr, 1^ miles north of Esne, but it has been destiwed. At Esne is also a stone quay, bearing the names of M. Aurelius. This city was the capital of a nome, and the coins struck in it in the reign of Hadrian (A.D. 127-128) represent the fish la- tus. See Champollion, Not. Descrip. p. 283 ; Wilkinson, Mod. Egypt, ii, 2G8; Tochon d'Annecy, 3Ieduilles." — Chambers, Enci/clojxcdia, s. v.