NADABATIIA
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injunction given (I^v. x, 9, 10) immediately after their j death, it has been inferred (Koscnm tiller, ad loo.) that the brothers were in a state of intoxication when they | committed the offence. The spiritual meaning of the injunction is drawn out at great length by Origcn, flum. vii, in Levit. On this occasion, as if to mark more decidedly the divine displeasure with the offenders, Aaron and his surviving son were forbidden to go through the ordinary outward ceremonial of mourning for the dead. See J. D. Frobiisen, Gedimken r. d. SiinJe Naddbs u. Obihu, in the Brem. w. Verd. Bill, i, 4, p. 159 s(i.; J. Medhurst, in the Bill. Ilagan. iv, 70-7() : Bp. Hall, Contemplations, ad loc. ; Saurin, Discour. Ilis- toriques, ii, 354; Dissert, p. 531 ; A. Littleton, Sermons, p. .303 ; J. Dickson, Discourses, p. 183 ; C. Simeon, Works, i, 613; R. P. Buddicom, Chiistian Exodus, ii, 1. Sec Amur.
2. (.Josephus, Naca/3oc, Ant. viii, 11, 4.) Son and successor of .Jeroboam on the throne of Israel (1 Kings xiv. 20). B.C. 951. He followed the deep-laid but criminal and dangerous policy of his father (xv, 26). In the latter part of liis reign, "Gibbethon, in the ter- ritory of Dan (Josh, xix, 44), a Levitical town (xxi, 23), was occupied by the Philistines, perhaps having been deserted by its lawful possessors in the general self-exile of the Levites from the polluted territory of Jeroboam. Nadab and all Israel went up and laid siege to this frontier town. A conspiracy broke out in the midst of the army, and the king was slain by Baasha, a man of Issachar. Abijah's prophecy (1 Kings xiv, 10) was literally fulfilled by the murderer, who proceeded to destroy the whole house of Jeroboam. So perished the lirst Israelitish dynasty, ^^'c are not told what events led to the siege of (jibbetlion, or how it ended, or any other incident in Nadab's short reign. It does not appear what ground Ewald and Newman have for describing the war with the Philistines as unsuccessful. It is remarkable that when a similar destruction fell upon the family of the murderer Baasha twenty-four years afterwards, the Israelitish army was again engaged in a siege of Gibbethon (1 Kings xvi, 15)" (Smith). See GinnKTiiON. In 1 Kings xv, 25 Nadab is assigned a reign of two years, but a comparison of the connected events and dates show that it lasted little, if any, over one year; so that tlie reckoning must have been made out by the usual proleptic method, which computed the years as beginning at the normal point of the Jewish calendar, i. e. the 1st of Nisan preceding. See Ciiho-
NOI-OGY.
3. The first named of the two sons of Shammai, in the tribe of Judah, and the father of two sons (1 Chron. ii, 28, 30). B.C. post 1618.
4. The fifth named of the eight sons of Jehiel, "the father [founder] of (iibeon ;" a Benjamite of Gibeon (1 Chron. viii, 30 ; ix, 36). B.C. perhaps cir. 1013.
Nadab'atlia {Sacaftt'i^ v. r. ra^a^av, Syriac, Nobot ; Vulg. Mddahii), "a place from which the bride was conihicted l>y tlic children of Janibrl (q. v.) when Jonathan and Simon attacked them (1 INIacc. ix, 37). Josephus (Ant. xiii, 1, 4) gives the name as Guhiith {Vafia^ii). Jerome's conjecture (in the Vulgate) can hardly be admitted, because Medeha was the city of the Jambrites (see ver. 36) to which the bride was brought, not that from which she came. That Nadabatha was on tlie east of Jordan is most probable ; for though, even to the time of tlie Go.spel narrative, by 'Chanaanites' — to which the bride in this case belonged — is signitied Phoe- nicians, yet we have the authority (such as it is) of the Book of Judith (v. 3) for attaching that name especially to the people of Moab and Ammon ; and it is not prob- able that when the whole country was in such disorder a wedding corte.i/e would travel for so great a distance as from Phoenicia to Medeba. On the east of Jordan the only two names that occur as jiossililc are Xeho — by Eusebius and Jerome written Naho and .\(ib(iu — and Nabat/ura. Compare the lists of places round cs-Salt,
in Robinson, 1st ed. iii, 167-70" (Smith). See Ga-
BATHA.
Nadal, Bernard II., D.D., a distinguished minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Tallxit County, JId., March 27, 1812. He was converted in 1832; and after the necessary jireparaton,- studies, which he pursued in private, he was admitted as a preacher in the old Baltimore Conference in 1835. His subse- quent fields of labor as a pastor were Luray Circuit, Va. ; St. Jlary's Circuit, Md.; Bladensburg, Md.; City Sta- tion, Baltimore; Lewisburgh, Va. ; Lexington, Va. ; Co- lumbia Street, Baltimore; Carlisle, Pa.; High Street, Baltimore; City Station, Baltimore ; Foundrj- Church, Washington; Sands Street, Brooklyn; First Church, New Haven; Wesley Chapel, Washington; Trinity Church, Philadelphia. During his entire pastoral life he was a close student, and made up for the absence of an early college training by extraonlinary applica- tion afterwards. In 1848, while stationed at Carlisle, Pa., he graduated at Dickinson College, having pursued his studies in the college in connection with his pastor- al work. During a part of his pastorate in Carlisle he taught a class in the college. In 1849 he was appoint- ed agent of Baltimore Female College; but as it was thought inexpedient at that time to prosecute the agency, he consented to supply for that year the pulpit of an Independent Churcli in Baltimore. From 18.>1 to 1857 he was professor in Indiana Asbury University. In the latter year he returned to the Baltimore Conference, and became presiding elder of Roanoke District in West- ern Virginia. Tliis was a time w lien the great waves of agitation on the subject of slavery were rolling fiercely over the Border Slates. Dr. Nadal entered vigorously into the contest, and boldly and successfully defended the position of his Church and Conference on the subject. By his sermons and addresses he exerted a marked in- fluence in favor of the national goverimient during the war of the rebellion. He enjoyed the friendship of president Lincoln, and poured forth in an able. discourse iiis sorrow at his death. In 1867 he accepted the pro- fessorship of historical theology in the Drew Theolog- ical Seminarj' at Madison, and after the decease of Dr. M'Clintock (q. v.) he was also acting president of the institution; but he was removed by death shortly af- terwards, June 20, 1870. Dr. Nadal was an able and forcible preacher, and maintained to the last a high rank in the pulpit. Many of his discourses on special occa- sions were printed and w idely read, and exhiliited a high order of pulpit eloquence. He was also well known as a vigorous and polished writer, and contributed very largely to the periodical literature of ins time. He was one of the editorial staff of T/ie Methodist, wliose editor. Dr. Crooks, said of him that ''in writing he was almost without a peer in the American IMithodist ( Imrdi." Dr. Nadal's thorough scholarship, line social qualities, and his ability to communicate insiruclion, made him an efficient and popular instructor, and his professional career in both the institutions wliich lie served was marked by entluisiasm, energy, and success. A volume of his /Ser/nons (entitled New Life Dairiiinr/, etc.) was published under the editorship of Prof. Buttz, with a Memoir prefixed (N. Y. 1873, 12mo).