species are all migrants from the south. Of those summer visitors to
Palestine special mention may be made of the Falco sacer and the Falco
lanarius. (See NIGHT-HAWK.)
- HAY properly so called, was not in use among the Hebrews; straw was
used instead. They cut the grass green as it was needed. The word rendered
“hay” in Proverbs 27:25 means the first shoots of the grass. In Isaiah 15:6
the Revised Version has correctly “grass,” where the Authorized Version
has “hay.” - HAZAEL whom God beholds, an officer of Ben-hadad II., king of Syria,
who ultimately came to the throne, according to the word of the Lord to
Elijah (1 Kings 19:15), after he had put the king to death (2 Kings 8:15).
His interview with Elisha is mentioned in 2 Kings 8. The Assyrians soon
after his accession to the throne came against him and defeated him with
very great loss; and three years afterwards again invaded Syria, but on this
occasion Hazael submitted to them. He then turned his arms against Israel,
and ravaged “all the land of Gilead,” etc. (2 Kings 10:33), which he held in
a degree of subjection to him (13:3-7, 22). He aimed at the subjugation also
of the kingdom of Judah, when Joash obtained peace by giving him “all the
gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the
king’s house” (2 Kings 12:18; 2 Chronicles 24:24). He reigned about
forty-six years (B.C.886-840), and was succeeded on the throne by his son
Ben-hadad (2 Kings 13:22-25), who on several occasions was defeated by
Jehoash, the king of Israel, and compelled to restore all the land of Israel
his father had taken. - HAZAR-ADDAR village of Addar, a place in the southern boundary of
Palestine (Numbers 34:4), in the desert to the west of Kadesh-barnea. It is
called Adar in Joshua 15:3. - HAZAR-ENAN village of fountains, a place on the north-east frontier of
Palestine (Numbers 34:9, 10). Some have identified it with Ayan ed-Dara
in the heart of the central chain of Anti-Libanus. More probably, however,
it has been identified with Kuryetein, about 60 miles east-north-east of
Damascus. (Comp. Ezekiel 47:17; 48:1.) - HAZAR-GADDAH village of fortune, a city on the south border of Judah
(Joshua 15:27), midway between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.