Shepard, Thomas, a Congregational minister, was born at Towccstcr, near Nortliampton, England, Nov. 5, 1()<)5. His father was a decided Puritan, inso- much that he removed to another tow^n for the sole pur- pose of enjoying what he considered an evangelical min- istry. Thomas entered Emanuel College, Cambridge, as a pensioner, in 1019, and while in college, after a very severe struggle, foinul jieace in Christ. He took the de- gree of B.A. in 1023, and completed his course of study in 1625. In 1027, after receiving his M.A., he was ap- pointed lecturer in Earles-Colne, Essex. He remained, laboring with great success, for three years and six months. On Dec. 16, 1030, he was summoned to Lon- don to answer before bishop Laud for alleged irregular conduct, and was by him forbidden to exercise any min- isterial function in his diocese. Examining the vari- ous usages and ceremonies to which he was required to conform, he was less disposed to adhere to the Es- tablishment than ever. Summoned a second time be- fore the bishop, he was required by him to immediately leave the place. He now entered the family of Sir IJichard Darley, in Yorksliire, as chaplain, where he re- mained about a year, and then accepted an invitation to Heddon, Northumberland, where he also remained al)out a year. Owing to his Nonconformist principles, he was greatly persecuted, with difficulty avoiding ar- rest, until Aug. 10, 1035, when he and his family em- barked for America. He arrived in Boston Oct. 2, 1035, and took up his residence in Newtown (now Cam- bridge), Mass. Here he became pastor of a newh^ or- ganized Church, Feb. 1, 1030, of w hich he continued to be the pastor until his death. Mr. Shepard soon be- came involved in the famous Antinomian controversy, and was one of the most active members of the noted synod by which the storm was finally quelled. There is also good reason to believe that ho had an important agency in originating and carrying forward the meas- ures resulting in tlie establishment of Harvard College. He died Aug. 25, 1649. .Johnson speaks of him as " that gracious, sweet, heavenly -minded, and soid- ravishing minister," which testimony is sustained by that of many others. The following are some of his works : New Eny- laniVs Lamentalion for Old Jim/lnml'g Errors ( Lond. lC45,4to):— 7'teM Sohbitticie (ibid. 1049) :— O/" AiVh;-- ^Va-, etc. (1053). — Parable of the Ten Virijiiis Opened arid Applied (1059, fol.). A collective edition of his works, witli a memoir, was published by the iJoctrinal Tract and Book Society (Boston, 1M53, 3 vols. 12mo). For a full list of his works, see Allibone, Dirt, (f Brit, and A mer. A ulhors, s. v. ; Sprague, A nnuls of the A mer. Piiljnl, i, 59.
She'pham (Heb. fihepham', ^t':}, fniUfiil [Gc- sen.], or hare [Fiirst]; Sept. yifipn^u'i/) [running it on into the following word, with the tl directive]), a place mentioned only in the specification l)y Moses of the eastern boundary of the I'romised I^nd (Numb, xxxiv, 10, 11), the first landmark from Ha/.er-enan, at whidi the northern boundary tcrniinatcd, and lying between it and Hiblali. The ancient interpreters (Targ. I'seudo- Jon., Saa<lia) render the name by Apameia ; but it seems uncertain whetlier by this they intend the (Jreek city of that name on llie (Jrontes, fifty miles below An- tioch, or whether they use it as a synonym of Banias or Dan, as .Schwarz affirms (J'ale.it. p. 27). No trace of the name appears, however, in that direction. Por- ter {iJamascim, ii, 3."j4) would fi.x Ha/.er-enan at Ku- rj'etein, seventy miles east - northeast of Damascus,
wliich would remove Shepham into a totally different region, in which there is equally little trace of it.— Smith. The Biblah mentioned in the above passage was not the city of that name in the land of Hamath (see Keil, Comment, sn\ l()c.),but a much more southern one. See Hibi^ah. The other more definitely known localities adjoining seem to point out a position for Shepham not far from the later Ciesarea-l'hilippi (q. v.).
Shephard, rArL,a Presbyterian minister, was born in Fayette, N, Y., June 3, 1803. He was educated at Oberlin College, studied theology in the same institu- tion, was licensed and ordained by the Oberlin Associ- ation in 1839, and jireached at the following places: Kichraond and Allegan, IMicli.; in 1840 at Medina, Mich. ; in 1851 at Dover, Mich. In 1850 he visited Kan- sas Territory and established a Church at Tecumseh, and was one of the original members of Kansas Presby- tery. In 1859 he returned to Jlonroe Presbytery, and was stated supjily for the Church at Dover and Clayton, Mich. Here he labored until his death, Nov. 9, iSCO. See Wilson, Presb, Hist, Almanac, 1802, p. 195.
Shephathi'ah (1 Chron. ix, 8). See SniiPirATi-
AH.
Shephati'ah (Heb. Shephafijali', n^:?£'^ [thrice in the prolonged form Shephatya'hii, 'rfZJSd, 1 Chron. xii, 5; xxvii, 16; 2 Chron. xxi, 2^,jiuh/ed of Jehovah ; Sept. 'Sacparia v. r. 'S.atpariac-, etc.), the name of a con- siderable number of Israelites.
1. The Haruphite (or descendant of Hareph), and one of the Benjamite warriors who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chron. xii, .5). B.C. 1054.
2. The fifth son of David, born of his wife Abital during his reign in Hebron (2 Sam.iii, 4; 1 Chron. iii, 3). B.C. cir. 1050.