Mig'ron {llGb.Migron', '{y^^'O, precipice ; Sept. in 1 Sam. Mayc'wv, in Isa. MayfJ^w v. r. Mayytow, ap- parently reading T for 1 ; Vulg. Magron), a town of Benjamin, which, from the historical indications, must have been between Ai and Michmas, on the route of the invading Assyrian army southward (Isa. x, 28). From Michmas a narrow valley extends northward out of and at right angles with that which has been identi- fictl as the i)assage of Michmas (q. v.). The town of Migron seems to have been upon and to have com- manded tlie pass through this valley, somewhere be- tween the modern Deir Diwan and Mukhmus (Kobin- son's Rvseurches, ii, 149). Saul was stationed at the further side of Gibeah ('?Geba)," under a pomegranate- tree which is by Migron" (1 Sam. xiv, 2), when Jona- than performed his great exploit at Michmas; and tlii> is to be explained (see Kosenmiiller, -4/^f/7/^ II, ii, I7ii sq.; Bachiene, II, ii, 145) on the supposition that ^lig- ron was on the border (perhaps extending idnsiderably north-west of Michmas) of the district to which (;il)eah gave its name. Migron, therefore, was in all probabil- ity situated on, or close to, the ravine now called Wady Suweinit. It was a commanding position (Josephus, Ant. vi, ((, 2. where it is said to be "a high hill"), for Saul was able to see from it the commotion which fol- lowed the attack of Jonathan on the Philistine camp. The ravine is not quite half a mile in breadth from brow to brow. According to Schwarz (Palest, p. 130), there are extant some ruins about half a mile south of the site of Bethel, which the Arabs still call Burj (fort) Mitgrun; but no map exhibits here more than a ruined church, and the position is too far north. Keil thinks the Migron of 1 Samuel was a different place from that of Isaiah {Comment, on Sam. ad loc.), but this is an un- necessary supposition. The only locality that seems to combine tlie scriptural requirements is the eminence just north-west of Mukhmus, which separates Wady Suweinil from its branch running up directly north to Deir 1 )i\van ; and sonut ancient town appears to be indi- cated liy tlie sepulelires in the latter valley.
Mihill, Nduius, a minister of the IMethodist F.pis- copal Chureh, was born in ShelHeld. C.W., aliout 1^<23. He was converted at eighteen, while resilient at Wil- mington, N. Y.; but continued in his trade until 18()1, when he was placed in charge of West Peru Circuit, which he served with marked ability for two years. At the end of this time he joined the Troy Conl'erence on trial, and was sent to Beekmantown, where he was serv- ing for the third year with great etlicienc}' at the time of his death, ( )ct. 3, 18t)H. MiliiU was earnestly devoted to the interests of his Master, and was beloved by his
associates and parishioners. See Minutes of Conferences, 18G9, p. 117.
Mih-Teih, or Me-Teih, an eminent Chinese phi- losopher, wlio fioiirished about KMi B.C, says I)r, Leggc, "was an original tliiiiker, and exercised a boider judg- ment on things than Confucius or anj- of his followers. He taught that all the evils in society arise from the want of mutual universal love. F'or example, a prince loves only his own state, and does not love the neigh- boring state. Therefore he makes war against it." "If princes," he asked, "regarded other states as their own, who would begin a war? If every one regarded his neighbor's person as his own, who would be found to rob ? If universal love prevailed, all enmities, usurpa- tions, and miseries would disapjjear. Princes, loving one another, would liave no battle-fields ; the chiefs of families, loving one another, would attempt no usurpai- tion ; men, loving one another, would commit no robber ies." See Dr. Legge, Chinese Classics, vol. ii, ch. iii ; Thom- as, Diet. ofBiog. and Mgthol. s. v.
Mij'amin (a, 1 Chron. xxiv, 9 ; b, Xeh. x, 7). See Mi AM IX.
Mikkelsen, Hans, a noted Danish Biblical stu- dent, autlior (if the first Danish version of the New Tes- tament, was originally mayor of Malmoe, in Scaiaa, and subsequently secretary to Christian II of Denmark. When the king was, in 1523, obliged to flee from his dominions and take refuge in Holland, Mikkelsen ac- companied him, and it was while there that, at the sug- gestion of his sovereign, he set himself to the work of translating the New Testament. Driven by the bigoted jealousy of the papal party in the Netherlands from his place beside the king, he retired to Ilarderwick, in (iuel- derland, where he died about the year 1532, His trans- lation, which was published in 1524 (small 4to), professes to be made from the Latin, but this applies oidy to the four Gospels, in translating which he seems to have fol- lowed the version of Erasmus; f()r the other books he has closely followed the German version of Luther. See Henderson, Dissertation on Ilans Mikkelseii's Transla- lii'ii i( npenhagen, 1813); W. L. Alexander, in Kitto, Ci/iinp.Jiibl.Lit. s.v.
[ Mik'loth (Heb. JMfo^/i',nil:p-2,prob.i.q.r'':b;3-a, I staves, as in Gen. xxx, 37, etc. ; Sept. M«KrtXa;5, M««- i Xw3, and MaK-£\X(t)3), the name of two men. ! 1. The principal officer of the second contingent of troops under Dodo, during the reign of David anil Solo- mon (1 Chron. xxvii, 4). B.C. 1014.