(3.) One who was “over the tribute;” i.e., “over the levy.” He was stoned
by the Israelites after they had revolted from Rehoboam (2 Chronicles
10:18). Called also Adoram (2 Samuel 20:24) and Adoniram (1 Kings 4:6).
- HADRACH the name of a country (Zechariah 9:1) which cannot be
identified. Rawlinson would identify it with Edessa. He mentions that in
the Assyrian inscriptions it is recorded that “Shalmanezer III. made two
expeditions, the first against Damascus B.C. 773, and the second against
Hadrach B.C. 772; and again that Asshurdanin-il II. made expeditions
against Hadrach in B.C. 765 and 755.” - HAEMORRHOIDS or Emerods, bleeding piles known to the ancient
Romans as mariscae, but more probably malignant boils of an infectious
and fatal character. With this loathsome and infectious disease the men of
Ashdod were smitten by the hand of the Lord. This calamity they
attributed to the presence of the ark in their midst, and therefore they
removed it to Gath (1 Samuel 5:6-8). But the same consequences followed
from its presence in Gath, and therefore they had it removed to Ekron, 11
miles distant. The Ekronites were afflicted with the same dreadful malady,
but more severely; and a panic seizing the people, they demanded that the
ark should be sent back to the land of Israel (9-12; 6:1-9). - HAFT a handle as of a dagger (Judges 3:22).
- HAGAR flight, or, according to others, stranger, an Egyptian, Sarah’s
handmaid (Genesis 16:1; 21:9, 10), whom she gave to Abraham (q.v.) as a
secondary wife (16:2). When she was about to become a mother she fled
from the cruelty of her mistress, intending apparently to return to her
relatives in Egypt, through the desert of Shur, which lay between. Wearied
and worn she had reached the place she distinguished by the name of
Beer-lahai-roi (“the well of the visible God”), where the angel of the Lord
appeared to her. In obedience to the heavenly visitor she returned to the
tent of Abraham, where her son Ishmael was born, and where she remained
(16) till after the birth of Isaac, the space of fourteen years. Sarah after this
began to vent her dissatisfaction both on Hagar and her child. Ishmael’s
conduct was insulting to Sarah, and she insisted that he and his mother
should be dismissed. This was accordingly done, although with reluctance
on the part of Abraham (Genesis 21:14). They wandered out into the
wilderness, where Ishmael, exhausted with his journey and faint from
thirst, seemed about to die. Hagar “lifted up her voice and wept,” and the