hearing this, adonijah fled and took refuge in the sanctuary (1 Kings
1:49-53). He was afterwards pardoned.
Zoheleth projects into or slightly over-hangs the Kidron valley. It is now
called ez-Zehwell or Zahweileh.
- ZOHETH snatching (?), one of the sons of Ishi (1 Chronicles 4:20).
- ZOPHAH spreading out, a son of Helem (1 Chronicles 7:35), a chief of
Asher. - ZOPHAR chirping, one of Job’s friends who came to condole with him in
his distress (Job 2:11. The LXX. render here “king of the Mineans” =
Ma’in, Maonites, Judges 10:12, in Southern Arabia). He is called a
Naamathite, or an inhabitant of some unknown place called Naamah. - ZOPHIM, FIELD OF field of watchers, a place in Moab on the range of
Pisgah (Numbers 23:14). To this place Balak brought Balaam, that he
might from thence curse the children of Israel. Balaam could only speak the
word of the Lord, and that was blessing. It is the modern Tal’at-es-Safa.
(See PISGAH.) - ZORAH place of wasps, a town in the low country of Judah, afterwards
given to Dan (Joshua 19:41; Judges 18:2), probably the same as Zoreah
(Joshua 15:33). This was Samson’s birthplace (Judges 13:2, 25), and near
it he found a grave (16:31). It was situated on the crest of a hill overlooking
the valley of Sorek, and was fortified by Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 11:10).
It has been identified with Sur’ah, in the Wady Surar, 8 miles west of
Jerusalem. It is noticed on monuments in the fifteenth century B.C. as
attacked by the Abiri or Hebrews. - ZUPH honeycomb, a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (1
Samuel 1:1); called also Zophai (1 Chronicles 6:26). - ZUPH, LAND OF (1 Samuel 9:5, 6), a district in which lay Samuel’s
city, Ramah. It was probably so named after Elkanah’s son, Zuph (1
Chronicles 6:26, marg.). - ZUR rock. (1.) One of the five Midianite kings whom the Israelites
defeated and put to death (Numbers 31:8).
(2.) A Benjamite (1 Chronicles 8:30).