Ha'mathite (Hebrew Chamathi', with the article "'r^tnri ; Sept. o 'A|<o3i'), a designation (Gen. x, 18 ; 1 Chron. i, IG) of the last named of the families descended from Canaan (q. v.) ; doubtless as having settled (found- ed) the city Hamath (q. v.). The Hamathites were thus a Haniitic race, but there is no reason to suppose with Kenrick {Phosniciu, p. GO) that they were ever in any sense Phoenicians. We must regard them as close- ly akin to the Hittites (q. v.), on whom thej' bordered, and Avith whom they were generally in alliance. See Canaanite.
Ha'math-Zo'bah (lleh. auvnath' Tsohah'. r^n ilii^J, i. e. Hamath of Zohah ; Sept. Ai'/uiS' 2(.j/3a v. r. Bai(Tw/?a,yulg. Emath Suba), a place on the borders of Palestine, said to have been attacked and conquered hy Solomon (2 Chron. viii, 3). It has been conjectured to be the same as Hamath (q. v.), here regarded as in- cluded in Aram-Zobah — a geographical expression ^vllich hai usually a narrower meaning. The conjunction of the two names here probably indicates nothing more than that the whole country roiuid Hamath ivas brought by Solomon under the power of Judah. The possessions of David extended to Hamath, and included Zobah (1 Chron. xviii, 3), and Solomon probably added Hamath also to his empire; certain it is that he had possessions in that district, and that part of it, at least, was included in his dominion (1 Kings ix, 19). See Zobah.
Hambroeck, Antox, a Protestant missionary, sur- named the "Dutch IJegulus," was born in the early part of the 17th century. He went as missionary to the East Indies, and settled in the island of Formosa, then the most important estabhshment of the Dutch in the China Sea. He converted a large number of natives, and the mission was i^rospering, when the celebrated Chinese pirate Coxinga, driven away by the Tartars, landed in Formosa, and set siege to Tai-Ouan with an army of 25,000 men, April 3o'^ IGGl. Hambroeck, his wife, and two of his children, were made prisoners, and tlie former was sent by Coxinga as envoy to the com- mander of the to^^^^, Frederick Coyet, to advise him to surrender. Instead of this, he advised him to defend tlie citj' to the last, and then returned to the camp of Coxinga, notwithstanding the remonstrances of Coyet, and the prayers of his two daughters, still in Tai-Ouan, saying that he "-would not jiermit heathen to say that the fear of death had induced a Christian to violate his oath." Coxinga, enraged at his courage, caused him to be beheaded on his return (in IGGl), together with the other Dutch prisoners, some 500 in number. Coyet was nevertheless obliged to capitulate in Jan. 1662. See Du Bois, Vies des Gourerneurs Hollamlais (La Haye, 1763, 4to), p. 210; Recueil des ]'oi/uffes qui ont servi a I'efa- blissement et aux progrez de la Comjmynie des Indes ori-
ental's (Rouen, 1725, 10 vols. 8vo), voL x ; Raynal, Tlist. phil()sophi(/iie des deux Jndes (Loud. 1792, 17 vols. Svo), ii, 26, 27 ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generule, xxiii, 217.
Hamelmann, Herm.ujn, a German Protestant the- ologian and historian, was born at Osnabrikk in 1 525. He was brought up in the Roman Catholic Church, and became curate of Camern. Having subsequently em- braced the doctrines of the Reformation, he lost his jiosi- tion, and went to Wittemberg, where he lived some time in intimacy with Melancthon. He afterwards prea( liod the Protestant doctrines at Bielefeld and Lemgo, and in the counties of Waldeck, Lippe, Si)iegclbcrg, and P^r- mont, and in Holland. He ac([uired great renown as a preacher, and prince WiUiam of Orange called liim to Antwerii, to participate in the preparation of a new ec- clesiastical cUsciplinc. In 1569 duke Julius of Bruns- wick appointed him first superintendent of (Jandert-hcim, and his aid was requested by the counts John and Otlio of Oldenburg, to introduce the Reformation in their states. He spent the last years of his life in this occu- pation, acting as general superintendent of the Protes- tant churches of Oldenbiu-g, Elmenhorst, and Jevcr. He died at Oldenburg June 2G, 1595. His theological and historical works are valuable for the historj' of the Refor- mation. Among them are De Traditionibus vei-u Jal- sisque (Frankfort, 1555) -.—De Eucharistia et controver- siis inter Pontijicos et Lutheranos hoc de articulo ar/ilatis (Frankf. 155G): — De conjugio sacerdot. brevis interlocuto- rius a suffraganeo et diucono (Dortmimd, 2d ed.l582): — Historia. ecclesiastica renati Evangel. (Altenburg, 158G). See Historische Nach-icht iiber d. Leben, Bediemngen v. Schriften Ham. (Quedlinburg, 1720) ; Burmann, Syllorj, Epist. i, 430 ; Rotermund, Gelehrtes Hannover, vol. ii, p. xliv ; Jticher, A llg. Gelehrten Lexikon, ii, 1340. HamitaL See IIamutat..
Hamilton, James, D.D., an eminent Presbyterian minister, was born in Strathblane, Scotland, in 1814. He commenced his ministry at Abernyte, Scotland, and after a short time was called to Edinburgh. In 1841 lie was called to be pastor of the National Scotch Church, Regent's Square, London, and was soon known as one of the most eloquent and powerful ministers of the me- tropolis. He died in London November 24, 1867. Dr. Hamilton's labors as a minister were very successful, and he was equally eminent in the field of authorshi]>, espe- cially-in the field of experimental and practical religion. Of his Life in Earnest, scores of editions have appeared in England (sixty-fifth thousand, Lond. 1852) and Amer- ica ; and his Mou7it of Olives (sLxty-fifth thousand, Lou- don, 1853) has been almost as widely circulated. " He was not only one of the most popular religious writers of the day, and master of one of the most fascinating stjdes in which Christian truth and feeling were ever clothed, but he was also no ordinary'- theologian ui the proper scientific sense of that term," tliough he never wrote any theological work in scientific form. A com- plete edition of his works in six volumes is now (1869) publishing in London, as follows : vol. i. Life in Ear- nest; Mount of Olives; A Morning beside the Lale of Galilee ; Happy Home : — vol. ii. Light for the Path ; Emblems from Eden; The Parable of the Prodigcd Son ; The Church in the Home; Dew ofHermon; Thankful- ness:— vol. iii. The Royal Preacher; Lessons from the Great Biography : — vol. iv, Ao/es on Job and Proverbs; Reviews, Essays, and Fugitive Pieces : — vols, v and vi. Selections from unpublished Sermcns and MSS. See Brit, and For. Evang. Review, Jan. 18G9, art. v.