2. An Ephraimite, son of Tahath and father of Shu- thelah 2 (1 Chron. vii, 21). B.C. post 1875.
3. The regicide, son of an Ammonitess named Shim- eath, who, in conjunction with Jehozabad, the son of a Moabitess, slew king Joash, to whom they were both household officers, in his bed (2 Kings xii, 21 ; 2 Chron. xxiv, 25, 26). In the first of these texts he is called JozACHAK (q. v.). The sacred historian does not appear to record the mongrel parentage of these men as suggesting a reason for their being more easily led to this act, but as indicating the sense which was entertained of the enormit)' of Joash's conduct that even they, though servants to the king, and though only half Jews by birth, were led to conspire against him "for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest." It would seem that their murderous act was not abhorred by the peo- ple; for Amaziah, the son of Joash, did not A'enture to call them to account till he felt himself well established on the throne, when they were both put to death (2 Kings xiv, 5, 6 ; 2 Chron. xxv, 3, 4 ). Joash had be- come unpopular from his idolatries (xxiv, 18), his op- pression (ver. 22), and, above all, his calamities (ver. 23- 25). The assassins were both put to death by Amaziah, but their children were spared in obedience to the law of Moses (Dent, xxiv, 16). The coincidence between the names Zechariah and Jozachar is remarkable.
4. 5, 6. Three Israelites, " sons" respectively of Zattu (Ezra, X, 27), Hashura (x, 33), and Nebo (x, 43), who divorced their Gentile wives, married after the return from Babylon. B.C. 458.
Zabadae'an (ZaiiaCaloQ), the designation of an Arab tribe who were attacked and spoiled by Jonathan, on his way back to Damascus from his fruitless pursuit of the army of Demetrius (1 INlacc. xii, 31). Josephus calls them A'abatceans {Ant. xiii, 5, 10), but he is evi- dently in error. Nothing certain is known of them. Ewald (Gesch. iv, 382) finds a trace of their name in that of the place Zabda given by Robinson in his lists; but this is too far south, between the Yarmuk and the Zerka. Michaelis suggests the Arab tribe Zobeideh ; but they do not appear in the necessary locality. Jona- than had pursued the enem}''s army as far as the river Elentherus (Nahr el-Kebir), and was on his march back to Damascus when he attacked and plundered the Zah- ada'ans. We must look for them, therefore, somewhere to the north-west of Damascus. Accordingly, on the road from Damascus to Baalbek, at a distance of eight and two-third hours (twenty-six miles) from the former pliice, is the village of Zebddmj, standing at the upper end of a plain of the same name, which is the very centre of Antilibanus. The name is possibly a relic of the ancient tribe of the Zabadieans. According to Burckhardt {Syria, p. 3), the plain " is about three quarters of an hour in breadth and three hours in length; it is called Ard Zebdeni, or the district of Zeb- deni ; it is watered by the Barrada, one of whose sources is in the midst of it, and by the rivulet called Moiet Zebdeni, whose source is in the mountain behind the village of the same name." The plain is " limited on
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one side by the eastern part of the Antilibanus, called here Jebel Zebdenl. The village is of considerable size, containing nearly 3000 inhabitants, who breed cat- tle and the silkworm, and have some dyeing-houses" {ibid.). Not far from Zebdany, on the western slopes of Antilibanus, is another village called Ke/r Zebad, which again seems to point to this as the district for- merly occupied by the Zabadaeans.— Smith.
Zabadai'as (ZajSaSaiag), the Greek form (1 Esdr. ix, 35) of the Ueb. name (Ezra x, 43) Zabad (q. v.).
Zab'bai ( Heb. Zabbay', "^3] [prob. an error for "^ST, Zakkay']; Sept, Za(3ov; Vulg. Zahbai and Zacka'i), the name of two Hebrews.
1. The father of Baruch, which latter repaired part of the wall of Jerusalem after the Captivity (Neh. iii, ^0). B.C. ante 446. He is perhaps the same with Zaccai (q. V.) of Ezra ii, 9.
2. A descendant of Bebai, who divorced his Gentile wife married after the return from Babylon (Ezra x, 28). B.C. 458.
Zab'bud (Heb. Zahbud', 1*!3T [prob. an error for "|!l3t, Zakhh; as in the marg.] ; Sept. ZafiovS), a "son" of Bigvai who returned from Babylon with Ezra (Ezra viii, 14). B.C. 459. See Zaccuii.
Zabdae'us (Z«/3^«rog), the Greek form (1 Esdr. ix, 21) of the Heb. name (Ezra x, 20) Zebadiah (q. v.).
Zab'di (Heb. Zabdi', 1^2], my gift; Sept. Za/35/, TjU^P'i, Zanjipi, etc.; Vulg. Zabdi, Zabdias), the name of several Hebrews.
1. Son of Zerah and father of Carmi the son of Achan of the tribe of Judah (Josh, vii, 1, 17, 18). B.C. ante 1618.
2. Third named of the nine sons of Shimhi (Shiraei) the Benjamite (1 Chron. viii, 19). B.C. cir. 1612.
3. A Shiphmite ( i. e. inhabitant of Shepham ), Da- vid's commissary of vineyards and wine-cellars (1 Chron. xxvii, 27). B.C. 1043.
4. An Asaphite, father of Micha and grandfather of Mattaniah (Neh. xi, 17) ; elsewhere called Zaccur (xii, 35) and Zichki (1 Chron. ix, 15). B.C. ante 446.