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(sold). The eldest son, ( Joshua 17:1 ) of the patriarch Manasseh by an Aramite or Syrian concubine. ( 1 Chronicles 7:14 ) At the time of the conquest the family of Machir had become very powerful, and a large part of the country on the east of Jordan was subdued by them. ( Numbers 32:39 ; 3:15 ) The son of Ammiel, a powerful sheikh of one of the transjordanic tribes, who rendered essential service to the cause of Saul and of David successively. ( 2 Samuel 9:4 , 5 ; 17:27-29 )
(disease), the eldest of the five daughters of Zelophehad the grandson of Manasseh. ( Numbers 27:1-11 )
(forgetting). The thirteenth king of Judah, son of Hezekiah, ( 2 Kings 21:1 ) ascended the throne at the age of twelve, and reigned 55 years, from B.C. 608 to 642. His accession was the signal for an entire change in the religious administration of the kingdom. Idolatry was again established to such an extent that every faith was tolerated but the old faith of Israel. The Babylonian alliance which the king formed against Assyria resulted in his being made prisoner and carried off to Babylon in the twenty-second year of his reign, according to a Jewish tradition. There his eyes were opened and he repented, and his prayer was heard and the Lord delivered him, ( 2 Chronicles 33:12 , 13 ) and he returned after some uncertain interval of time to Jerusalem. The altar of the Lord was again restored, and peace offerings and thank offerings were sacrificed to Jehovah. ( 2 Chronicles 38:15 , 16 ) But beyond this the reformation did not go. On his death, B.C. 642, he was buried as Ahaz had been, not with the burial of a king, in the sepulchres of the house of David, but in the garden of Uzza, ( 2 Kings 21:26 ) and long afterward, in suite of his repentance, the Jews held his name in abhorrence. One of the descendants of Pahathmoab, who in the days of Ezra had married a foreign wife. ( Ezra 10:30 ) One of the laymen, of the family of Hashum who put away his foreign wife at Ezra command. ( Ezra 10:33 ) (forgetting), the eldest son of Joseph, ( Genesis 41:51 ; 46:20 ) born 1715-10 B.C. Both he and Ephraim were born before the commencement of the famine. He was placed after his younger brother, Ephraim, by his grandfather Jacob, when he adopted them into his own family, and made them heads of tribes. Whether the elder of the two sons was inferior in form or promise to the younger, or whether there was any external reason to justify the preference of Jacob, we are not told. In the division of the promised land half of the tribe of Manasseh settled east of the Jordan in the district embracing the hills of Gilead with their inaccessible heights and impassable ravines, and the almost impregnable tract of Argob. ( Joshua 13:29-33 ) Here they throve exceedingly, pushing their way northward over the rich plains of Jaulan and Jedur to the foot of Mount Hermon. ( 1 Chronicles 5:23 ) But they gradually assimilated themselves with the old inhabitants of the country, and on them descended the punishment which was ordained to he the inevitable consequence of such misdoing. They, first of all Israel, were carried away by Pul and Tiglath-pileser, and settled in the Assyrian territories. ( 1 Chronicles 5:25 , 26 ) The other half tribe settled to the west of the Jordan, north of Ephraim. ( Joshua 17:1 ) ... For further particulars see Ephraim , Ephraim .
Manasseh, king of Judah. ( Matthew 1:10 ) Manasseh the son of Joseph. ( Revelation 7:6 )
that is, the members of the tribe of Manasseh. (4:43; Judges 12:4 ; 2 Kings 10:33 )
(place of crowns) was in a very marked position on the southern rim of the plain of Esdraelon, on the frontier line of the territories of the tribes of Issachar and Manasseh, 6 miles from Mount Carmel and 11 from Nazareth. It commanded one of those passes from the north into the hill country which were of such critical importance on various occasions in the history of Judea. Judith 4:7 . The first mention occurs in ( Joshua 12:21 ) where Megiddo appears as the city of one of the kings whom Joshua defeated on the west of the Jordan. The song of Deborah brings the place vividly before us, as the scene of the great conflict between Sisera and Barak. When Pharaoh-necho came from Egypt against the king of Assyria, Josiah joined the latter, and was slain at Megiddo. ( 2 Kings 23:29 ; 2 Chronicles 35:22-24 ) Megiddo is the modern el-Lejjun, which is undoubtedly the Legio of Eusebius and Jerome. There is a copious stream flowing down the gorge, and turning some mills before joining the Kishon. Here are probably the “waters of Megiddo” of ( Judges 5:19 )
(friend), the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah, wife of Manasseh king of Judah, and mother of his successor, Amon. ( 2 Kings 21:19 )
(who is like God?). An Asherite, father of Sethur, one of the twelve spies. ( Numbers 13:13 ) One of the Gadites who settled in the land of Bashan. ( 1 Chronicles 5:13 ) Another Gadite, ancestor of Abihail. ( 1 Chronicles 5:14 ) A Gershionite Levite, ancestor of Asaph. ( 1 Chronicles 6:40 ) One of the five sons of Izrahiah, of the tribe of Issachar. ( 1 Chronicles 7:3 ) A Benjamite of the sons of Beriah. ( 1 Chronicles 8:16 ) One of the captains of the “thousands” of Manasseh who joined David at Ziklag. ( 1 Chronicles 12:20 ) The father or ancestor of Omri, chief of the tribe of Issachar in the reign of David. ( 1 Chronicles 27:18 ) One of the sons of Jehoshaphat who were murdered by their elder brother, Jehoram. ( 2 Chronicles 21:2 , 4 ) The father or ancestor of Zebadiah, of the sons of Shephatiah. ( Ezra 8:8 ) “One,” or “the first, of the chief princes” or archangels, ( Daniel 10:21 ) as the “prince” of Israel, and in ch. ( Daniel 12:1 ) as “the great prince which standeth” in time conflict “for the children of thy people.”
(hiding-place), a place which formed one of the landmarks of the boundary of the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh on the western side of Jordan. ( Joshua 17:7 ) The position of the place must be somewhere on the east of and not far distant from Shechem.
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