- JARMUTH height. (1.) A town in the plain of Judah (Joshua 15:35),
originally the residence of one of the Canaanitish kings (10:3, 5, 23). It has
been identified with the modern Yarmuk, a village about 7 miles north-east
of Beit-Jibrin.
(2.) A Levitical city of the tribe of Issachar (Joshua 21:29), supposed by
some to be the Ramah of Samuel (1 Samuel 19:22).
- JASHEN sleeping, called also Hashem (1 Chronicles 11:34); a person,
several of whose sons were in David’s body-guard (2 Samuel 23:32). - JASHER upright. “The Book of Jasher,” rendered in the LXX. “the Book
of the Upright One,” by the Vulgate “the Book of Just Ones,” was
probably a kind of national sacred song-book, a collection of songs in
praise of the heroes of Israel, a “book of golden deeds,” a national
anthology. We have only two specimens from the book, (1) the words of
Joshua which he spake to the Lord at the crisis of the battle of Beth-horon
(Joshua 10:12, 13); and (2) “the Song of the Bow,” that beautiful and
touching mournful elegy which David composed on the occasion of the
death of Saul and Jonathan (2 Samuel 1:18-27). - JASHOBEAM dweller among the people; or to whom the people turn,
the Hachmonite (1 Chronicles 11:11), one of David’s chief heroes who
joined him at Ziklag (12:6). He was the first of the three who broke
through the host of the Philistines to fetch water to David from the well of
Bethlehem (2 Samuel 23:13-17). He is also called Adino the Eznite (8). - JASHUB returner. (1.) The third of Issachar’s four sons (1 Chronicles
7:1); called also Job (Genesis 46:13).
(2.) Ezra 10:29.
- JASON he that will cure, the host of Paul and Silas in Thessalonica. The
Jews assaulted his house in order to seize Paul, but failing to find him,
they dragged Jason before the ruler of the city (Acts 17:5-9). He was
apparently one of the kinsmen of Paul (Romans 16:21), and accompanied
him from Thessalonica to Corinth. - JASPER (Hebrews yashpheh, “glittering”), a gem of various colours, one
of the twelve inserted in the high priest’s breast-plate (Exodus 28:20). It is
named in the building of the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:18, 19). It was