2. (Sept. Tfpi/uw^.) The last named of the three sons of Mushi, grandson of Levi (1 Chron. xxiv, 30) ; elsewhere (1 Chron. xxiii, 23) called Jeremoth (q.A'.).
3. (Sept. 'lapijxov'St v. r. 'Api/twS.) One of the fa- mous Benjamite archers and slingers that joined David's band at Ziklag (1 Chron. xii, 5). B.C. 1055.
4. (Sept. 'Ifpii.iov3r V. r. 'lipi^uoB.) One of the four- teen sons of Heman, and appointed a Levitical musician under his father in the arrangement of the sacred ser- vices by David (1 Chron. xxv, 4) ; probably the same elsewhere (ver. 22) called Jeremoth.
5. (Sept. 'lipif.iovB V. r. Tfpi//(i^.) Son of Azriel, and "captain" of Naphtali under David and Solomon (1 Chron. xxvii, 19). B.C. 1014.
6. (Sept. 'EpfiorSr V. r. 'Itptixov^.) A son of David, whose daughter Mahalath was Rehoboam's first wife (2 Chron. xi, 18). B.C. ante 973. He appears to have been different from any of David's sons elsewhere enu- merated (2 Sam. iii, 2-5 ; 1 Chron. xiv, 4-7), having, perhaps, been born of a concubine (compare 2 Sam. xvi, 21). See David. "This, in fact, is the Jewish tradi- tion respecting his maternity (Jerome, QiKrtifiiines, ad loc). It is, however, somewhat quest ii mat ile wliether Kehoboam would have married the grandchild of a con- cubine even of the great David. The passage 2 Chron. xi, 18 is not quite clear, since the word ' daughter' is a correction of the Keri: the original text had "|3, i. e. ' son' " (Smith).
7. (Sept. Ifpi/xw^.) A Levitc, one of the overseers of the Temple offerings in the time of Hezekiah (2 Chron. xxxi, 13). B.C. 726.
Je'rioth (Heb. Yerioth', ri"^'^^, timidihj, other- wise curtains; TtpioJS), a person ai)))arently named as the latter of the first two wives of ( 'aid), sdii of Hezron, several children being mentioned as the fruit of the mar- riage with one or the other (1 Chron. ii, 18). B.C. post
1856. The Vulgate renders this as the son of Caleb by the first-mentioned wife, and father of the sons named; but contrary to the Heb. text, which is closely followed by the Sept, There is probably some corruption ; pos- sibly the name in question is an interpolation : compare ver. 19; or perhaps we shoidd render the connective 1 by even, thus making Jerioth but another name for Aznbah.
Jerment, George, D.D., a minister of the Secession Church of Scotland, was born in 1759 at Peebles, Scot- land, where his father was at the time pastor of a church of that branch of the Secession Church denom- inated before their union in 1819 as Anti-burgher. On the completion of his collegiate course he entered the divinity hall of his denomination, situated at Alloa, and, while a student there, took a high standing in his class. After preaching a short time in Scotland he went to London, to become the colleague of Mr. Wilson, at the Secession Church in Bow Lane, Cheapside, and was or- dained in the last week of Sept. 1782. In the English metropolis Jerment was well received, and he labored there for the space of thirty-five years, his preaching attracting large and respectable congregations from the Scottish residents of London. He "died May 23, 1819. " His character stood very high in the estimate of all who knew him, as a man of sense, learning, prudence, and exalted piety." He was one of the first directors of the London Missionary Society, and greatly encour- aged the enterprise. The writings of Jerment intrusted j to the press are mainly public lectures and sermons (London, 1791-1813). Among these his Early Piety, il- lustrated and 7-ecommended in several Discourses ; and Rcliyion, a Monitor to the Middle-ayed and the Glory of old Men, deserve to occupy a conspicuous place. See iVIorison, Fathers and Founders of Land. Miss. Society, p. 506 sq. (J. H. W.)
Jerobo'am (Heb. Yarobam', d"!!"!"^, increase of the people; Sept. 'IspajSoa^i, Josephus Tfpo/3t'a//oc), the name of two of the kings of the separate kuigdom of Israel.
1. The son of Nebat (by which title he is usually dis- tinguished in the record of his infamy) by a woman named Zeruah, of the tribe of Ephraira (1 Kings xi, 26). He was the founder of the schismatical northern king- dom, consisting of the ten tribes, over which he reigned twenty-two (current) years, B.C. 973-951. At the time he first appears in the sacred historj' his mother was a widow, and he had already been noticed by Solomon as a clever and active young man, and appointed one of the superintendents of the works which that magnifi- cent king was carrying on at Jerusalem, having special charge of the services required of the leading tribe of Ephraim (1 Kings xi, 26-28; comp. Josephus, ^ n^ viii, 7, 7). B.C. 1010-998. This appointment, the rcAvard of his merits, might have satisfied his ambition had not the declaration of the prophet Ahijah given him higher hopes. When informed that, by the divine appomt- ment, he was to become king over the ten tribes about to be rent from the house of David, he was not content to wait patiently for the death of Solomon, but began to form plots and conspiracies, the discovery of which con- strained him to flee to Egypt to escape condign punish- ment, B.C. cir. 980. The king of that couutrj' was but too ready to encourage one whose success must neces- sarily weaken the kingdom which had become great and formidable under David and Solomon, and which had already pushed its frontier to the Red Sea (1 Kings xi, 29-40).