Their conversion to the Lord was predicted (Psalm 72:10). This word, in
Ezekiel 23:42, should be read, as in the margin of the Authorized Version,
and in the Revised Version, “drunkards.” Another tribe, apparently given
to war, is mentioned in Job 1:15.
- SABTAH rest, the third son of Cush (Genesis 10:7; 1 Chronicles 1:9).
- SABTECHA the fifth son of Cush (id.).
- SACHAR hire. (1.) One of David’s heroes (1 Chronicles 11:35); called
also Sharar (2 Samuel 23:33).
(2.) A son of Obed-edom the Gittite, and a temple porter (1 Chronicles
26:4).
- SACKBUT (Chald. sabkha; Gr. sambuke), a Syrian stringed instrument
resembling a harp (Daniel 3:5, 7, 10, 15); not the modern sackbut, which is
a wind instrument. - SACKCLOTH cloth made of black goats’ hair, coarse, rough, and thick,
used for sacks, and also worn by mourners (Genesis 37:34; 42:25; 2
Samuel 3:31; Esther 4:1, 2; Psalm 30:11, etc.), and as a sign of repentance
(Matthew 11:21). It was put upon animals by the people of Nineveh
(Jonah 3:8). - SACRIFICE The offering up of sacrifices is to be regarded as a divine
institution. It did not originate with man. God himself appointed it as the
mode in which acceptable worship was to be offered to him by guilty man.
The language and the idea of sacrifice pervade the whole Bible.
Sacrifices were offered in the ante-diluvian age. The Lord clothed Adam
and Eve with the skins of animals, which in all probability had been
offered in sacrifice (Genesis 3:21). Abel offered a sacrifice “of the firstlings
of his flock” (4:4; Hebrews 11:4). A distinction also was made between
clean and unclean animals, which there is every reason to believe had
reference to the offering up of sacrifices (Genesis 7:2, 8), because animals
were not given to man as food till after the Flood.
The same practice is continued down through the patriarchal age (Genesis
8:20; 12:7; 13:4, 18; 15:9-11; 22:1-18, etc.). In the Mosaic period of Old
Testament history definite laws were prescribed by God regarding the
different kinds of sacrifices that were to be offered and the manner in
which the offering was to be made. The offering of stated sacrifices became