(splendor of the dawn), a place mentioned only in (Joshua 13:19) in the catalogue of the towns
allotted to Reuben.
Zarhites, The
a branch of the tribe of Judah, descended from Zerah the son of Judah. (Numbers 26:13,20;
Joshua 7:17; 1 Chronicles 27:11,15)
Zartanah
(1 Kings 4:12) [Zaretan, Or Zarthan, Zarthan]
Zarthan
- A place in the circle of Jordan, mentioned in connection with Succoth. (1 Kings 7:46)
•It is also named in the account of the passage of the Jordan by the Israelites, (Joshua 3:18) where
the authorized Version has Zaretan.
•A place with the similar name of Zartanah. (1 Kings 4:12)
•Further, Zeredathah, named in (2 Chronicles 4:17) only in specifying the situation of the foundries
for the brass-work of Solomon’s temple, is substituted for Zarthan; and this again is not impossibly
identical with the Zererath of the story of Gideon. (Judges 7:22) All these spots agree in proximity
to the Jordan, but beyond this we are absolutely at fault as to their position.
Zattu
The sons of Zattu were a family of laymen of Israel who returned with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:8;
Nehemiah 7:13)
Zavan
(1 Chronicles 1:42) [Zaavan, Or Zavan]
Zaza
one of the sons of Jonathan, a descendant of Jerahmeel. (1 Chronicles 2:33)
Zebadiah - A Benjamite of the sons of Beriah. (1 Chronicles 8:15)
•A Benjamite of the sons of Elpaal. (1 Chronicles 8:17)
•One of the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. (1 Chronicles 12:7)
•Son of Asahel, the brother of Joab. (1 Chronicles 27:7)
•Son of Michael, of the sons of Shephatiah. (Ezra 8:8)
•A priest Of the sons of Immer, who had married a foreign wife after the return from Babylon.
(Ezra 10:20)
•Third son of Meshelemiah the Korhite. (1 Chronicles 26:3)
•A Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat. (2 Chronicles 17:8)
•The son of Ishmael and prince of the house of Judah in the reign of Jehoshaphat. (2 Chronicles
19:11)
Zebah
and Zalmun’na (deprived of protection), the two “kings” of Midian who commanded the great
invasion of Palestine, and who finally fell by the hand of Gideon himself. (Judges 8:5-21; Psalms
83:11) (B.C. 1250.) While Oreb and Zeeb, two of the inferior leaders of the incursion, had been
slain, with a vast number of their people, by the Ephraimites, at the central fords of the Jordan the
two kings had succeeded in making their escape by a passage farther to the north (probably the
ford near Bethshean), and thence by the Wady Yabis, through Gilead, to Kurkor, high up on the
Hauran. Here they sere reposing their with 15,000 men, a mere remnant of their huge horde, when