- SHAPHER brightness, one of the stations where Israel encamped in the
wilderness (Numbers 33:23, 24). - SHARAIM two gates (Joshua 15:36), more correctly Shaaraim (1 Samuel
17:52), probably Tell Zakariya and Kefr Zakariya, in the valley of Elah, 3
1/2 miles north-west of Socoh. - SHAREZER (God) protect the king!, a son of Sennacherib, king of
Assyria. He and his brother Adrammelech murdered their father, and then
fled into the land of Armenia (2 Kings 19:37). - SHARON, SARON a plain, a level tract extending from the
Mediterranean to the hill country to the west of Jerusalem, about 30 miles
long and from 8 to 15 miles broad, celebrated for its beauty and fertility (1
Chronicles 27:29; Isaiah 33:9; 35:2; 65:10). The “rose of Sharon” is
celebrated (Cant. 2:1). It is called Lasharon (the article la being here a part
of the word) in Joshua 12:18. - SHAVEH-KIRIATHAIM plain of Kirja-thaim where Chedorlaomer
defeated the Emims, the original inhabitants (Genesis 14:5). Now
Kureiyat, north of Dibon, in the land of Moab. - SHAVEH, VALLEY OF valley of the plain the ancient name of the
“king’s dale” (q.v.), or Kidron, on the north side of Jerusalem (Genesis
14:17). - SHAVSHA (“Seraiah,” 2 Samuel 8:17; “Shisha,” 1 Kings 4:3), one of
David’s secretaries (1 Chronicles 18:16). - SHEALTIEL asked for of God, father of Zerubbabel (Ezra 3:2, 8;
Nehemiah 12:1). - SHEARING-HOUSE (2 Kings 10:12, 14; marg., “house of shepherds
binding sheep.” R.V., “the shearing-house of the shepherds;” marg., “house
of gathering”), some place between Samaria and Jezreel, where Jehu slew
“two and forty men” of the royal family of Judah. The Hebrews word
Beth-eked so rendered is supposed by some to be a proper name. - SHEAR-JASHUB a remnant shall escape or return (i.e., to God), a
symbolical name which the prophet Isaiah gave to his son (Isaiah 7:3),
perhaps his eldest son.
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