He put Rezin to death, and punished Pekah by taking a considerable
portion of his kingdom, and carrying off (B.C. 734) a vast number of its
inhabitants into captivity (2 Kings 15:29; 16:5-9; 1 Chronicles 5:6, 26), the
Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh whom he settled in
Gozan. In the Assyrian annals it is further related that, before he returned
from Syria, he held a court at Damascus, and received submission and
tribute from the neighbouring kings, among whom were Pekah of Samaria
and “Yahu-khazi [i.e., Ahaz], king of Judah” (comp. 2 Kings 16:10-16).
He was the founder of what is called “the second Assyrian empire,” an
empire meant to embrace the whole world, the centre of which should be
Nineveh. He died B.C. 728, and was succeeded by a general of his army,
Ulula, who assumed the name Shalmaneser IV.
- TIMAEUS defiled, the father of blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46).
- TIMBREL (Hebrews toph), a small drum or tambourine; a tabret (q.v.).
The antiquity of this musical instrument appears from the scriptural
allusions to it (Genesis 31:27; Exodus 15:20; Judges 11:34, etc.) (See
MUSIC.) - TIMNAH a portion. (1.) A town of Judah (Joshua 15:10). The Philistines
took possession of it in the days of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:18). It was
about 20 miles west of Jerusalem. It has been identified with Timnatha of
Dan (Joshua 19:43), and also with Timnath (Judges 14:1,5).
(2.) A city in the mountains of Judah (Joshua 15:57)= Tibna near Jeba’.
(3.) A “duke” or sheik of Edom (Genesis 36:40).
- TIMNATH Genesis 38:12,14. (1.) Hebrews Timnathah, which is
appropriately rendered in the Revised Version, Timnah, a town in Judah.
(2.) The town where Samson sojourned, probably identical with “Timnah”
(1) (Judges 14:1-18).
- TIMNATH-HERES portion of the sun, where Joshua was buried (Judges
2:9). It was “in the mount of Ephraim, in the north side of the hill Gaash,”
10 miles south-west of Shechem. The same as the following. - TIMNATH-SERAH remaining portion, the city of Joshua in the hill
country of Ephraim, the same as Timnath-heres (Joshua 19:50; 24:30).
“Of all sites I have seen,” says Lieut. Colossians Conder, “none is so
striking as that of Joshua’s home, surrounded as it is with deep valleys and