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Jehovah : also, in the prolonged form. Rechabya'hu,
ili-p^ni, 1 Cliron. xxiv. 21 : xxvi.25; Sept. 'Paafiia or
it . \. r. 'Pa ">'oi or 'Pa/3«'ac), the only b t Eli-
ezer, son of Moses; himself the father of many sons (1 Chron. xxiii. 17). of whom the eldest was Isshiah (1 Chron. xxiv, 21) or Jeshaiah (1 Chron. xxvi. 25 I. 1!.< '. post 1G18.
Rehearse, in the Prayer-hook, is understood to im- ply distinctness of utterance, in opposition to a low and hesitating manner, as in the catechism— " Rehearse the articles of the belief." Sometimes the word simply de- notes Baying or reading, or a recapitulation; as where Latimer remarks in a sermon. •• I will therefore make an end. without any rehearsal or recital of that which i~ al- ready said."— .Staunton. Diet, ofthi Church, >. v.
Rehfuss, Carl, Dr., a Jewish rabbi, was horn Feb. 9, 17U2. at Altdorf, in Breisgau. When fifteen years of age he went to fverdun, in Switzerland, to attend the lectures at the Pestalozzi Institution there. He then entered the Iyc< um at Rastatt, and alter due preparation was enabled to attend the lectures at the Heidelberg University, where he was promoted, Aug. 25, 1834, as doctor of philosophy. Having completed his studies, he was appointed preacher of the Jewish congn gation at Heidelberg, where he died. Feb. L8, 1842. He trans- lated into German the C^nn C, a Jewish ritual used for the sick, etc. (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1834). Be- sides, he published a numher of schoi 1-1 ks. Sei I ret,
Bibl. Jud. iii. 112 sq.; BLayserling, Bibliothek jiidischer Kanzelredner, i.:'.5.s sq.; Steinschneider, Bibliogr. ttand- buch, p. 115; Zunz, Die Monatstagt des Kalenderjahres I Berlin, 1872; Engl.transl. by Rev. Ii. Tick in the Jew- ish Messenger, X. Y. 1874-75); AUgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, I842,p. 248. (B.P.)
Re'hob (Heb. Rechob', zrr [twice -:n-. 2 Sam. x, 8; Neh. x, 11]. a Street, from its width ; Sept. 'I'mi/S v. r. 'Pow/3, etc.), the name of two men and also of three places in the north of Palestine.
1. The father of the Hadadezer, king of Zobab, whom David smote at the Euphrates ( 2 Sam. viii. 3, I 2 I. I (.( . ante 1043. Josephus {Ant, vii, 5. 1) calls him Aratis ('Apuoc). and the old Latin version Arachus. The name possibly had some connection with the district of Syria called Rehob, or Beth-rehob (2 Sam. x. 6, 8).
2. A Levite who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah (Neh. x, 11). B.C.410.
3. The northern limit of the exploration of the spies w ho explored ( lanaan t Numb. xiii. 21). It is sp< cified as being " as men come unto llamath." or. as the phrase is elsewhere rendered, "at the entrance of llamath," i.e. at the commencement of the territory of that name. by which in the early hooks of the Bible the great val- ley of Lebanon, the Bika'ah of the prophets, and the Buka'a of the modern Arabs, seems to be roughly des- ignated. This, and the consideration of the improba- bility that the spies went farther than the upper end of the Jordan valley, seems to fix the position of Rehob as n't far from Tell el-Kady and Banias. This is con- firmed by the statement of Judg. xviii, 28, that Laish or Dan (Tell el-Kady) was "in the valley that is by Beth-rehob." I>r. Robinson {Later Bib. Res. p. .'oil proposes to identify it with ffunin, an ancient fortress in the mountains north-west of the plain of Huleh, the upper district of the .Ionian valley. Bui .-i nee the names IJuheih. of a valley, and Deir-Rabba, of an Arab ruin, are found near Banias, Thomson {Land and Book, i, 391) prefers that vicinity. There is no reason to doubt that this Rehob or Beth-rehob was identical with the place mentioned under both names in 2 s.im. x. 6, 8, in con- nection with Maacah. which was also in the upper dis- trict of the Huleh. See 111 111-1:1 HOB.
4. i me of the towns allotted to Asher (Josh. xix. 28), and which from the lisl appears to have been in (dose proximity to Xidon. It is named between Ebron, or Al>- don, and Hammon. Schwarz, from Bome Jewish writer, gives it a position seven and a half miles east of Tyre, on the river Leontes; referring, perhaps, to the modern village Rt lieh or Harziyeh.
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5. Asher contained another Kehob (Josh, xix, 30). One of the two was allotted to the Gershonite Levites (xxi,31 ; 1 Chron. vi, 75), and of one its Canaanitish in- habitants retained possession (Judg. i, 31). The men- tion of Aphik in this latter passage may imply that the Kehob referred to was that of Josh, xix, 30. This, Eu- sebius and Jerome (Onomasticon, s. v. "Roob") confound with the Rehob of the spies, and place four Roman miles from Scythopolis. The place they refer to still survives as Rehab, three and a half miles south of Beisan, but their identification of a town in that position with one in the territory of Asher is obviously inaccurate.— Smith. The Rehob in question is possibly represented by the modern Tell Kurddny. south of the river Belus, near the northern base of which is a village with a perennial spring (Robinson, Later Bib. Res. p. 104).