the ministry, but, if an irregularity at all in this re- spect, the sin of those who, being ministers, dare to ar- rogate to themselves powers and prerogatives which be- long only to higher officers Fairbairn. The whole
proceeding was very disorderh^, and contrary to the drstinct and far from unmeaning regulations of the law, which prescribed that the ark should be carried on the shoulders of the Levites (Exod. xxv, 14), whereas here it was conveyed in a cart drawn by oxen. The ark ought to have been enveloped in its coverings, and tlius wholly concealed before the Levites approached it; but it does not appear that any jiriest took part in the mat- ter, and it would seem as if the ark was brought forth, exposed to the common gaze, in the same manner in which it had been brought back by the Philistines (1 Sam. vi, 13-19). It was the duty of Uzzah, as a Levite, to have been acquainted with the proper course of pro- ceeding; he was therefore the person justly accountable for the neglect, and the judgment upon him seems to have been the most effectual course of insuring atten- tion to the proper course of proceeding, and of checking the growing disposition to treat the holy mysteries with undue familiarity. That it had this effect is expressly stated in 1 Chron. xv, 2, 13. — Kitto. See Ark.
Uz'zen-she'rah (Heb. Uzzm' Sheerah', "jTS ITlX"^, ear [i. e. point] of Sherah ; Sept. v'lo't 'Osa»/ S£»;)ua; Ynh^.Ozerisera),a. place in the vicinity of Beth- horon, founded or rebuilt b}' Sherah (q. v.), an Ephraim- itess (1 Chron. vii, 24). The name appears to indicate some salient feature of the surface or position. It has been thought to correspond with the present Beit Sira, whicli is shown in the maps of Van de Velde and Tob- ler as on the north side of the Wady Suleiman, about three miles south-west of Beitur et-Tahta. It is men- tioned by Kobinson (in the lists in Appendix to vol. iii of ^/6/. Res. [1st ed.],p. 120), and also by Tobler {Driite Waiukrunf/, p. 188). It is doul)tful, however, if the boundary of Ephraim ever extended so far south, and hence perhaps we should prefer Beit Sirak, a vill'age with two fountains in Wady Budrus, two and a half miles east of Beitur el-Fohka; or if both these identiti- cations fail, possibly the modern village Suff'a, in Wady Budrus, about one mile north-west of Beitur et-Tahta (Robinson, Bill. Res. ii, 250).
Uz'zi (Heb. Uzzi', i-T3>, strong [or my strength, or contr. for Uzziah'\; Sept. 'O^i, with occasional v. rr. ; Vulg. Ozi or Azzi). the name of six Hebrews.
1. First named of the six sons of Tola son of Issachar (1 Chron. vii, 2), and father of five sons who became military chiefs (ver. 3). B.C. post 1874.
2. Second named of the five sons of Bela son of Ben- jamin, and, like the preceding one, chief warrior (I Chron. vii, 7). B.C. post 1874.
3. A high-priest, son of Bukki and father of Zerahiah (1 Chron. vi, 5, 6, 51; Ezra vii, 4). B.C. cir. 1400. Josephus in one passage (Ant. v, 11, 5) gives his name and position correctly ( "O^i^, Ozis ) ; but in another {Ant. viii, 1, 3) he calls either him or his son Juatham (Itua^fl/iOf).
4. Son of Michri and father of Elah among the an- cestors of a Benjamite family in Jerusalem after the Exile (1 Chron. ix, 8). B.C. ante 536.
5. Son of Bani, chief of the Levites at .Jerusalem af- ter the Captivity (Neh. xi, 22). B.C. 536.
6. A priest, head of the "course" of Jedaiah in the time of the high-priest Joiakim (Neh. xii, 19). B.C. cir. 500. He was probably the same with one of the priests who sang at the consecration of the new walls of Jerusalem (ver. 42).
Uzzi'a ( Heb. Uzziya', X's-TSJ, prob. for Uzziah [q. v.] ; Sept. O^i'a ; Vulg. Ozia), one of David's sub- ordinate warriors, called an " Ashtcrathite" (q. v.), prob- ably as having come from Ashtaroth beyond the Jordan. B.C. 1053. See David,
UZZIAH
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Uzzi'ah (Ileb. Uzziyah', iT'", sh-enr/th of Jehovah [but in the prolonged form Uzziya'hu, W^Ty, except in 2 Kings xv, 13, 30; 1 Chron. vi, 24; Ezra x, 21; Neh. xi, 4; Hos. i, 1; Amos i, 1; Zech. xiv, 5]; Sept. usually 'O^iac, but with many v. rr. ; Vulg. OziasMT Azias), the name of tive Hebrews. See also UzziA.
1. A Kohathite Levite, son of Uriel and father of Shaul among Samuel's ancestors (1 Chron. vi, 24 [Hcb. 19]). B.C. cir. \h\o. He is apparently the same with AzAHiAii (q. V.) the son of Joel and father of Zephaniah in the parallel list (ver. 3()).
2. The father of ■Ichonathan, David's overseer of de- positories in kind (1 Chron. xxvii, 25). B.C. cir. 1053.
3. The tenth king of the separate kingdom of Judah, B.C. 808-756. Like No. 1 above, he is sometimes called AzAuiAH (q. v.). By Joseplius (.4 nt. ix, 10, 3 sq.), and in the New Test. (JIalt. i, 8, 9), the name occurs in the same (ireek form as in the Sept. (^OZiaq). The date of the beginning of Uzziah's reign (2 Kings xv, 1) in the twenty-seventh year of .lemboaui H is reconciled by Usher and others with the statement that Uzziah's father, Amaziah, whose whole reign was twenty-nine years only, came to the throne in the second year of Joash (xiv, 1) ; and by the supposition that Jeroboam's reign had two commencements, the first not mentioned in Scripture, on his association with his father. Joash, during the Syrian war, B.C. 835. Keil, after Capelhis and Giotius, more violently supposes that the number T2 is an error of the Hebrew copyists for 5"^, "1^, or i:"', so that instead of twenty-seventh of Jeroboam we ought to read thirteenth, fourteenth, etc.