I had been prostrate since Necho's overthrow, Jer. xlvi, 2) upon tlie ruins of the Babylonian empire. The lean- ing to Egypt indicated by Hananiah's prophecy as hav- ing begun in the fourth of Zedekiah, had in the sixth of his reign issued in open defection from Nebuchadnez- zar, and in the guilt of perjury, which cost Zedekiah his crown and his life, as we learn from Ezek. xvii, 12-20; the date being fixed by a comparison of Ezek. viii, 1 with XX, 1. The temporary success of the intrigue, which is described in Jer. xxxvii, Avas speetlily followed by the return of the Chaldaeans and the destruction of the city, according to the prediction of Jeremiah. This history of Hananiah also illustrates the manner in which the false prophets hindered the mission, and obstructed the beneficent effects of the ministry of the true proph- ets, and affords a remarkable example of the way in which they prophesied smooth things, and said peace when there was no peace (compare 1 Kings xxii, 11, 24, 25). — Smith, s. v. See Jeremiah.
7. The original name _ of one of Daniel's youthful companions and one of the " three Hebrew children ;" better known by his Babylonian name Shadr,vch (Dan. i; vi, 7).
8. Son of Zerubbabel, and father of Rephaiah ; one of the paternal ancestors of Christ (1 Chron. iii, 19, 21). (See Strong's Harm, and Expos, of the Gospels, p. 16, 17.) B.C. post 536. He is possibly the same with No 10. See Genealogy of Chkist.-
9. One of the '• sons" of Bebai, an Israelite who re- nounced his Gentile wife after the return from Babvloii (Ezra x, 28). B.C. 459.
10. The " rider of the palace" (Jl'^'^afn lb), and the person who was associated with Nehemiah's brother Hanaui in the charge of the gates of Jerusalem. See Hanani. The high eulogy is bestowed upon him that " he was a faithful man, and feared God above man}'" (Neh. vii, 2). His office seems to have been one of au- thority and trust, and perhaps the same as that of Elia- kim, who was " over the house" in the reign of Heze- kiah. See Ei.iAKur. The arrangements for guarding the gates of Jerusalem were intrusted to him with Ha- nani, the Tirshatha's brother. Prideaux thinks that the appointment of Hanani and Hananiah indicates tliat at this time Nehemiah returned to Persia, but without sufficient ground. Nehemiah seems to have been con- tinuously at Jerusalem for some time after the comple- tion of the wall (vii, 5, 65 ; viii, 9 ; x, 1). If, too, the term n^'^atl means, as Gesenius supposes, and as the use of it in Neh. ii, 8, makes not improbable, not the palace, but the fortress of the Temple, called by Josephus jidpiQ, there is still less reason to imagine Nehemiah's absence. In this case Hananiah would be a priest, per- haps of the same family as the preceding. The render- ing, moreover, of Neh. vii, 2, 3, should probably be, "And I enjoined (or gave orders to) Hanani . . . and Hananiah, the captains of the fortress . . . concei'ninff Jerusalem, and said. Let not the gates," etc. There is no authority for rendering "bs by "over" — "He gave such an one charge over Jerusalem." Tlie passages fpiotcd by Gesenius are not one of them to the point. — Smith, s. V.
11. The son of " one of the apothecaries" (or makers of the sacred ointments and incense, Exod. xxx, 22-38), who repaired part of the -walls of Jerusalem (Neh. iii, 8) ; possibly the same Avith No. 9. B.C. 446.
12. A son of Shelemiah, and one of the priests who repau-cd those parts of the wall of Jerusalem opposite their houses (Neh. iii, 30). B.C. 446.
13. A priest, apparently son of Jeremiah, after the captivity (Neh. xii, 12) ; probably the same with one of those who celebrated the completion of the walls of Je- rusalem (ver. 41). B.C. 446.
Hanby, TnoitAS, an English Wesleyan preacher, was born at Carlisle Dec. 16, 1733; was left an orphan at seven, and bound to a trade at twelve. He had little education, but had serious thoughts from infancy, and was confirmed at thirteen. Some time after, through
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IMethoclist influence, he was cfinverted. In 175-1: he be- gan to preach, and, during his first year of work, was often in danger of violent death from mobs. In 1755 he was admitted into the itinerancy. He afterwards preached in most of the cities of the kingdom. He died at Nottingham Dec. 29, 1796. ]Mr. Hanby's labors tend- ed greatly to the spread of vital religion among some of the most abandoned and violent districts of England. See Jackson, Lifcs of Early Methodist rreachers, i, 274. (G.L.T.)
Hancock, Thomas, a patron of Harvard College. He left most of his ])roperty to liis nephew, governor Hancock, but yet bequeathed £1000 for the foundation of a professorship of the Heljrew and other Oriental lan- guages at Harvard ; £1000 to the Society for propaga- ting the Gospel among the Indians, and £000 to the town of Boston for the establishment of a hospital for the insane. He died at Boston August 1, 1764. — Ann. Hei/isler, 170-t.
Hand (T^, ym?, the open palm ; r)3, knpli, the hollow of the partlj'-closed hand; Greek x^'P'" T'?"'i y'"""*'> the 7-ir/ht hand, StEici ; Pi'Sb, semvl', the left hand, apttr- Ttpci, einovvfio7'),the principal organ of feeling, rightly denominated by Galen the instrument of instruments, since tliis member is wondcrfidly adapted to the purposes for wliich it ^vas designed, and serves to illustrate the wisdom and providence of the great Creator ( The Hand, its Mechanism and vital E'ndoicments, as evincing Design, by Sir Charles Bell). Considering the multiplex effica- cy of tlie human hand, the control which it has given man, the conquest over the external world Avhich it has enabled him to achieve, and the pleasing and useful rev- olutions and improvements which it has brought about, we are not surprised to read the glowing etdogy in which Cicero (Z>e Nat. Dear, ii, 60) has indulged on the subject, nor to find how important is the part which the hana performs in the records of divine revelation. The hand itself serves to distinguish man from other terres- trial beings. Of the two hands, the right has a prefer- ence derived from natural endowment. See Lkkt-