REICHEL
The other locality is unquestionably authentic. Ches- I ney says,"On the right bank of the Euphrates, al the north-western extremity ol the plain of Shinar, and j i hree and a half miles south-wesl of the town of Maya- din, are extensive ruins around a castle still bearing the nameofKehoboth"(i, 119; ii, 222). Re'hum (Heb. and Chald. Reckum', ~"!"H, co7»-] : Sept 'Peov/i, but in Neh. iii, 17 'YaoupJ), the name of five men.
1. One of the '•children of the province" who re- turned from the Babylonian captivity with Zerubbabel (Ezra ii. 7). B.C. 536. In the parallel passage (Neh.
\ ii. 7 ) he is called NEHUM.
2. One of the priests who returned from Babylon at the same time (Neh. xii, 3). B.C. 53G. In a subse- quent verse ivcr. 1 ■"> ) lie seems to be called Hakim (q. v. ).
3. A Persian officer in Samaria, joint author with Shimshai of a letter which turned Artaxerxes against the building-plans of the dews (Ezra iv. 8, 9, 17, 23). B.C. 535. "He was perhaps a kind of lieutenant-gov- ernor of the province under the king of Persia, holding apparently the same office as Tatnai, who is described in Ezra v. 6 as taking part in a similar transaction, and is there called 'the governor on this side the river.' The Chaldee title, tJSB-isa, Mel-item, literally 'lord of decree,' is left untranslated in the Sept. BaXra/i and the Vulg. Beelteem; and the rendering 'chancellor' in the A. V. appears to have been derived from Kimchi and others, who explain it, in consequence of its con- nection with 'scribe.' by the Hebrew word which is usually rendered ' recorder.' This appears to have been the view taken by the author of 1 Esdr. ii, 25, 6 ypaQiov ret -KpoaTviTTTovTa , and by Josephus (Ant. xi, 2, 1). 6 tt«)'7« tu i:paTTo\iiva ypcicjxoi'. The former of these seems to be a gloss, for the Chaldee title is also repre- sented by BfiXriSfioc;" (Smith).
4. A Levite, sou of Bani, and one of the builders of the wall of Jerusalem under Nehemiah (Neh. iii, 17). B.C. 145.
5. One of the chief Israelites who signed the cove- nant with Nehemiah (Neh. x, 25). !>.<'. 410.
Re'i (Heb. Bey', W, friendly ; Sept. 'IV v. r. 'Pnai), one of king David's officers, who refused to rebel with Adonijah (1 Kings i, 8). I!.*'. 1015. "Jerome (Quasi. //'In: ad Ioc.) states that he is the same with 'Hiram the Zairiie.' i. e. Ira the Jairite, a priesl or prince about the person of David. Ewald (Gesch. iii. 2GG, note), dwelling <m the occurrence of Shimei in the same list with Rei, suggests that the two are David's only surviving brothers, Rei being identical with Rad- DAI. This is ingenious, but there is nothing to support it. while I here is the ureal objection to it that the names are in the original extremely dissimilar, Rei containing the Aim, a letter which is rarely exchanged for any other, but apparently never for Daleth (Gesenius, The- saur. p. 976 i" (Smith I.
Reich, Georg, a German doctor of theology, was born in 1813, and died < )ct. 1. 1hi;-_>. as pastor ol Reich- elsheim, in Hesse. He wrote, l>h Avferstehung des Hi i in als Heils/hatsache, with special reference to Schleiermacher (Darmstadt, 1845) : Die LehrfortbiU dung in der evangelisch-protestantischen Kirche, auf tnd der augsburgischen Confession (Hamburg and Gotha, 1847): ' />/• eoangelisch-lulherische Kirch im Grossherzogthum Hessen (Stuttgart, 1855). SeeZuch- old, Bibl. Theol. ii. 1043, 1355, 1369. (B. P.)
Reichaiclt, John Christian, a minister of the Episcopal Church, was born at Ruhrort, on the Rhine, in 1803. He was educated lirst. at the public Bchool in
bis native place, and afterwards pursued his studies at
the gymnasium at Duisburg. Feeling a desire to de- vote himself id missionary work, he*vas recommended
to the missionary society al Barmen, which received
him, and he was renl by ii to the excellent JaVnicke's Missionary Institution at Berlin. Janicke had no funds
at command to enable him to send forth missionaries, but the -missionary societies in England, in Holland, and elsewhere were thankful to avail themselves of those who bad been trained by the venerable pastor In Berlin. In the year 1824 the London Society for Prop-: agating the Gospel among the dews appointed Mr. Reichardt for the mission in Poland, in connection with Mr. Becker, a former pupil of father Janicke. During 1825 and 1826 he travelled extensively through Poland; from 1827 to 1830 he was engaged in frequent mission- ary journeys in Holland and Bavaria, and in 1831 he was active, together with the late Rev. M. S. (after- wards bishop) Alexander, in preaching the Gospel to the Jews in London and the principal towns of Eng- land. From thai time his permanent residence was at London, in prosecution of the missionary work in behalf of his society. In October, 1857, Mr. Reichardl left England on a special mission to Jerusalem, where he also remained for a time. After bis return from Jeru- salem, his time and efforts were mainly directed to the work of the society in England, with occasional vis- its to various missionary stations. His main work, however, was the revision of the text of the Hebrew New Test,, which was printed and published several times, and in correcting for the press multiplied edi- tions of the Old Test, which the London Society, as well as the British Bible Society, published. He also took part in the training of candidates for mission- ary employment, and. alter he was permitted to la- bor until his death, March 31, 1873. In connection with his missionary work, he published a number of pamphlets, which have been translated by bis fellow- laborers into Dutch, French, etc, viz. ~t — i "- irPttJOj or Proof 8 that Jesus of Nazareth is (hi Son of David (Loud. 1851, and often):— 'n n~JZ rPlBa, or Proofs that iln Messiah, the Son of David, is also tlie Son of God (ibid. 1851, and often) :— imbx Vl b&W* V~2 *inx n, The Scriptural Docirim of tin God of Israel (ibid. 1851. and often):— mimaM Tr, The Two Covenants, or Mosaism and Christianity (2d ed. ibid. 1857): — Investigation of the Prophet Joel with Special Reference toth Coming Crisis (ibid. 1867). See Jewish Intelligencer (Lond.), 1851, p. 427 sq.; 1867, p. .".1 sq.; May. 1873; Dibre Emeth,oder Stimme der Wahrheit (Breslau, 1873), p. 97 sq.; Delitzsch, Saai avfHoffmmg (1873), x, 228 sq.; Ftlrst, Bill. Jud. iii. 143; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol.\\,im. (B. P.)