Nadab
Liberal, generous. (1.) The eldest of Aaron’s four sons ( Ex. 6:23 ; Num. 3:2 ). He with his brothers and their father were consecrated as priests of Jehovah ( Ex. 28:1 ). He afterwards perished with Abihu for the sin of offering strange fire on the altar of burnt-offering ( Lev. 10:1 , 2 ; Num. 3:4 ; 26:60 ). (2.) The son and successor of Jeroboam, the king of Israel ( 1 Kings 14:20 ). While engaged with all Israel in laying siege to Gibbethon, a town of southern Dan ( Josh. 19:44 ), a conspiracy broke out in his army, and he was slain by Baasha ( 1 Kings 15:25-28 ), after a reign of two years (B.C. 955-953). The assassination of Nadab was followed by that of his whole house, and thus this great Ephraimite family became extinct ( 1 Kings 15:29 ). (3.) One of the sons of Shammai in the tribe of Judah ( 1 Chr. 2:28 , 30 ).