e_tc. (1 K~nge iiv. 26; xv. 18), more par- it designated etretcl.Jed from CRrmel to ticularly 1n the first clanee, and grain fruit Joppa (Stanley's' Sinai and Palestine,' edit. etc. (2 IJhron. xi. 11), in the latter for th~ ~866, pp. 485, 260, 264). The valleys here word h1111 disti~ctly th!e double application. mtended are not specified. (See for some illustration of this verse e.lso, t!alluet., • De Hello Jugurth.,' xii.) . Ver. 30.-Whelher the word Obil (S•::iiN), 1s e. proper name or not, it signifies •• e. ten• Ver. 26.-Thia verse appears to give the name, not (as in the former verse) of the de~ of camels" by derivation. The--task per.son who had charge o~ the stored grain, ~111ted the Iehmaelite, n~ doubt! Nofhing frmta, etc., but of the chief superintendent lB known of the Meronothite, nor of the situa- and manager of the labour e.nd labourers of tion of the place called Meronoth unless the field. ~1;1ything me.y be conjectured fro~ Neh. Ver. 27.-Thie verse specifies the officer m.7. who had the management of the vineyards, Ver. 31.-For the Xagerite tribe, see eh. v. e.nd also the officer who hod charge over the 10, 18-22. For the rulers of the substance wine-cellara. Tile description of Ramathite the Hebrew words are ~1::i:,;i •,i,. Th~ does not assist us to identify Shimei, though number of them e.dds up agai~ i~' twelve• the choice of place is ample (Josh. xiii. 26 ; Keil justly supposes thot the two named xviii. 25; xix. 29, 36; Judg. xv. 17). For in ver. 25 were those principal officers to Shiphmite, ace Numb. xxxiv. 10, 11; to the whom the other ten deli vere<l the proceeds place Shepham, mentioned in which pe.s- of their respective charges. Hnge, the reference here may be. For over Vers. 32-34.-'l'hese verses contain the the inorea.se, ree.d over that which in the vine- names of seven men of high position, e.nd yai·da, etc., where the initilll. 'li elands for ~ho were, e.t e.11 events, important enough, ,::-!!. m one respect or another, for this closino- ., Ver. 28.-A similar couple of officers to epecial mention. I. Jone.the.u e.nd Ahitho':. those of the le.et verse are described here. By phel ore singled out as com1sellors (YP.i') the low pie.ins here in the Authorized Version of the king. 2. Xushai the Arohite is is trnnslated what hod been better left nn- mentioned oe the oompanion (J1,) of the tre.usluteJ, i.e. tile Shephelah, one of the five king. 3. J ehoiada the son of Ben-~, and divisions of Judam (Conder's • Bible Hand- Abiathar ure mentioned as standing in e. book,' 2nd edit., lSSO, p. 257). It com- similar relation of counsellors to the kin~ prised the low-lying tract of land on the with Ahithophel, but alter him. 4. The great r.oe.st and, roughly speaking, stretching general of the whole army of the kiug from Joppe. to Gazo. The eyoomore tree (N~~-,~), Joab, has e. place found for (Cil?R;;'~, e. plural masculine, ond once his name. 5. And the nome of Jehiel ie nicRlli, e. plural feminine, Pa, lxxviii. 87) mentioned ae of one with the king's sons. ie to be distinguished from the syce.- The Jira! thing which may be observed os to mine, being thot kind of mulberry tree this enumerution is that it is not one called fig mulberry. The Septuagint, how- whole belonging to the later portion of ever, does not observe the distinction, nnd D,wid's time. AhithophPl hnd lung before ol we.ye tr11nslotee avKcl/J,,v••· It we.s a com- put an end to his own life (2 Sam. xvii. 21 mon tree, e.11d useful to the poor. It ie tbe -23; nlso eee xv. 12, 31, 84; xvi. 20-23). ~ome with the black mulberry of Egypt, ond Secondly, th11t out of the Heveu names, four obouuded iu Pnlcstine (1 Kings x. 27), lte or fivo ure already well known to us in fruit wns cotnble, ond ite wood, though soft, some otlier cnpacity; for see the lists of yet vuhmble for enduringness (see Smith's eh. xviii. 14-17; 2 So.m. viii. 16-18; xx. 'Bible Dictionary,' iii. p. 139!; Conder'e 23-26. And thirdly, thot in ono or two 'llihle Handbook,' 2nd edit., pp. 223, 399; iast11uces, a difforent or ndditionnl pnrt is Stanley's 'Sinai and Pa.Jestine,' edit. 1866, osHigned to tlio names mentioned. Tho im- pp. 146, 393). The nome Baa.l-hane.n comes pression left with us is rather nf honournl>lo first before us as thut of II King of E<lom or epocial mention mode of seven who ha,I (Gen. xxxvi. 38, 39; eh. i. 49). The place been distinguished helpers of the king or Gede1·ali (Josh. xv. 3G),or Beth-gader(ch. ii. the kin~dom nt ono timo or nnother. 51), ntte.ched to the no.me of the present Ver. 32.-Nothing is known of nny unole JJaal-hanan, renders it not Ieee probable that to Dovicl, nnmed Jonathan, but epeci11I he wae of similnr extraction. mention is mnde, in eh. xx. 7 nml 2 Som. xxi. Ver. 29.-Sharon (see eh. v. 16, 21). It 21, of e. nophew, eon of Shimcn, who ren- mee.ne with the article, whicl.J, with one ex- dered vnluoble eervico, n111l whoso nnmo ception, olw1tye nccompauiee it," tho level WM Jonuthnn. It ie possible thnt the loud," and on the west of the Jordan ex- Hebrew,;, mny menn "nephew,'' ns 8imply actly corresponds with the JIIishor on the meaning" rclntive." It must ho nclmilted, cast, e. word of identical signification witb however, n~ very rcmarknble, thnt in Le- Sharon. The tract of pe.:1ture-le.nd which viticus, Numbers, the historical bookH, THE F'IRST BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES. [cit. xtv1t. 1-34,
Jeremiah, and Amos, to the number of six- Ver. 33.-For Huahal the Arohite, see 2 teen times in all, the word confessedly Sam. xv. 32, 37; xvi. 16; xvii. 14, 15. means "uncle;" while this seventeenth time, Ver. 34.-The after of this verse may it would appear to mean "nephew." On the possibly be the after of time, i.e. after the other hand, in Proverbs, Canticles, Isaiah, death of Ahitbophel, instead of the after of Ezekiel, to the number of tbirty-six times place, i.e. subordinate. 1ehoiada the son in all, the word follows its other branch of of Benaiah. Either the individual of ver. 5; signification of "love," and in particular eh. niii. 17; 2 Sam. viii. 18 ; xx. 23, is not "one beloved." Notl:ing certain can be the purson here intended, or we have here ssid of the 1ehiel of this verse, but, if a son the names accidently reversed. There seems of Haoh.moni, we may presume him to have no sufficient reason to doubt that the high been related to Je.shobeam of ver. 2 and priest of the ltho.mar branch is here meant. eh. xi. 11.