From this time forth we hear no more till the battle of (Jilboa. In tliat battle he fell, with his two brothers and his fatlier, and his corpse sliared their fate (1 Sam. xxxi, 2, «}. B.C. 10o3. His remains were buried first at Jabesh-Gilcad (ib. 13), but afterwards removed with those of his father to Zelah in Benjamin (2 Sam. xxi, 12). The news of his death occasioned the celebrated elegy of David, in which, as the friend, he naturaUv oc- cupies the cliief place (2 Sam. i, 22, 23, 25, 26), and which seems to liave been sung in the education of the archers of Judah, in commemoration of the one great archer, J<niatliaii : " He Ijade tliem teach the children of Judah the use of tlie bow" (2 Sam. i, 17, 18).
Jonathan left one son, aged five years old at the time of Ins deatli (2 Sam. iv, 4), to wliom he had probably given Ins original name of Merib-baal, afterwards changed for Meiihiboshcth (comp. 1 Chron. viii, 34; ix 4U). See MriPHiKosiiKTii. Through him the line of descendants was continued down to the time of Ezra (1 Chron. ix, 40), and even then their great ancestor's archery was practiced among them.— Smith. See Da-
See Niemeyer, Charnkier. iv, 413; Herder, Geht. der Utbr. I'oesu', ii, 237 ; KOstcr, in the Stud. u. Kril. 1832,
ii, 366 ; Ewald, Isr. Gescli. ii, 530 ; Pareau, Elegia Da-' vidis, etc. (Groning. 1829) ; Simon, De amicitia Davidis et Jon. {RildhiiTgh. 1739).
4. Son of Shage, a relative of Ahiam, both among David's famous warriors and descendants of Jasheu of the mountains of Judah (2 Sam. xxiii, 32 ; 1 Chron. xi, 34). B.C. 1046. See Haearite.
5. Son of the high-priest Abiathar, and one of the adherents to David's cause diu-ing the rebellion of Ab- salom (2 Sam. XV, 27, 36). He remained at En-rogel under pretence of procuring water, and reported to his master the proceedings in the camp of the insurgents (2 Sam. xvii, 20 ; Josephus 'liova^rjg, Ant. vii, 9, 2). B.C. cir. 1023. At a later date his constancy was manifested on a similar occasion by annoimcing to the ambitious Adonijah the forestalment of his measures by the suc- cession of Solomon (1 Kings i, 42, 43). B.C. cir. 1015. " On both occasions it may be remarked that he appears as the swift and trusty messenger. He is the last de- scendant of Eli of whom we hear anything" (Smith). See David.
6. Son of Sharamah (Shimeah or Shimea), and Da- vid's nephew, as well as one of his chief warriors, a po- sition which he earned by slaying a gigantic relative of Goliath (2 Sam. xxi, 21 ; 1 Chron. xx, 7 ; Josephus 'l(x)vaBi]g,A7it.vii,l2,2). B.C. 1018. He was also made secretary of the royal cabinet (1 Chron. xxvii, 32, where ni'n is mistaken in the Auth. Vers, for the usual sense of "uncle"). B.C. 1014. "Jerome {Qucest. Ilehr.on \ Sam. xvii, 12) conjectures that this was Na'than the prophet, thus making up the eighth son, not named in 1 Chron. ii, 13-15. But this is not probable" (Smith).
7. Son of Uzziah, and steward of the agricidtural revenue of David (1 Chron. xxvii, 25; Heb. and A.V. " Jehoxathan").
8. One of the Levites sent by Jehoshaphat to aid in teaching the Law to the people (1 Chron. xvii, 8 ; Heb. and A.V. " Jehoxathan").
9. A scribe whose house was converted into a prison in which Jeremiah was closely confined (Jer. xxvii, 15, 20 ; xxxviii, 26). B.C. 589.
10. Brother of Johanan, the son of Kareah, and as- sociated with him in his intercourse with Gedaliah, the Babylonian governor of Jerusalem (Jer. xl, 8). B.C. 587.
11. Son of Sliemaiah and priest contemporary with Joiakim (Neh. xii, 18 : Heb. and A.V. "Jehoxathan").
12. Son of ilelicu and priest contemporary with Joi- akim (Neh. xii, 14). B.C. between 536 and 459.
13. Father of Ebed, which latter was an Israelite of the " sons" of Adin that returned from Babylon with Ezra (Ezra viii, 6) at the head of fifty males, a number which is increased to 250 in 1 Esdr. viii, 32, where Jon- athan is written 'ImmSiaQ. B.C. ante 459.
14. Son of Asahel, a chief Israelite associated with Jahaziah in separating the returned exiles from their Gentile wives (Ezra viii, 15). B.C. 459.
15. Son of Joiada and father of Jaddua, Jewish high- priests (Neh. xii, 11) ; elsewhere called Johanan (Neh. xii, 22), and apparently John by Josephus, who relates his assassination of his own brother Jesus in the Tem- ple (^Ant. xi, 7, 1 and 2). Jonathan, or John, was high- priest for thirty-two years, according to Eusebius and the Alexandr. Chron. (Selden, De Success, in Pontif. cap. vi, vii). See High-priest.
16. Son of Shemaiah, of the family of Asaph, and father of Zechariah, which last was one of the priests appointed to flourish the trumpets as the procession moved around the rebiult avails of Jerusalem (Neh. xii, 35). B.C. ante 446.
17. A son of ]\[attathias. and leader of the Jews in their war of independence after the death of his brother Judas Maceabanis, B.C. 161 (I Macc.Lx, 19 sq.).— Smith. See Maccabees.
18. A son of Absalom (1 Mace, xili, 11), sent by Si- mon with a force to occupy Joppa, which was already in the hands of the Jews (1 Mace. xii. 33), though prob-