•The son of Maaseiah, (Jeremiah 21:1) and sagan or second priest in the reign of Zedekiah. (B.C.
588.) He succeeded Jehoida, (Jeremiah 29:25,26) and was probably a ruler of the temple, whose
office it was, among others, to punish pretenders to the gift of prophecy. (Jeremiah 29:29) On the
capture of Jerusalem he was taken and slain at Riblah. (Jeremiah 52:24,27; 2 Kings 25:18,21)
•Father of Josiah, 2, (Zechariah 6:10) and of Hen, according to the reading of the received text of
(Zechariah 6:14)
Zephath
(watch-tower), the earlier name, (Judges 1:17) of a Canaanite town, which after its capture and
destruction was called by the Israelites Hormah. [Hormah]
Zephathah
(watch-tower), The valley of, the spot in which Asa joined battle with Zerah the Ethiopian. ( 2
Chronicles 14:10) only.
Zephi
(1 Chronicles 1:36) [Zepho]
Zepho
(watch-tower), son of Eliphaz, son of Esau, (Genesis 36:11) and one of the “dukes” or phylarchs
of the Edomites. ver. (Genesis 36:15) In (1 Chronicles 1:36) he is called Zephi. (B.C. after 1760.)
Zephon
(watch), the son of Gad, (Numbers 26:15) and ancestor of the family of the Zephonites. Called
Ziphion In (Genesis 46:16) (B.C. 1706.)
Zer
(flint), a fortified town in the allotment of Naphtali, (Joshua 19:35) only, probably in the
neighborhood of the southwest side of the Lake of Gennesareth.
Zerah
(rising (of the sun)).
•A son of Reuel, son of Esau, (Genesis 36:13; 1 Chronicles 1:37) and one of the “dukes” or phylarchs
of the Edomites. (Genesis 36:17) (B.C. after 1760.)
•Less properly, Zarah, twin son, with his elder brother Pharez, of Judah and Tamar. (Genesis 38:30;
1 Chronicles 2:4; Matthew 1:3) (B.C. about 1728.) His descendants were called Zarhites, Ezrahites
and Izrahites. (Numbers 26:20; 1 Kings 4:31; 1 Chronicles 27:8,11)
•Son of Simeon, (1 Chronicles 4:24) called Zohar in (Genesis 46:10) (B.C. 1706.)
•A Gershonite Levite, son of Iddo or Adaiah. (1 Chronicles 6:21,41) (B.C. 1043.)
•The Ethiopian or Cushite, an invader of Judah, defeated by Asa about B.C. 941. [Asa] Zerah is
probably the Hebrew name of Usarken I., second king of the Egyptian twenty-second dynasty; or
perhaps more probably Usarken II his second successor. In the fourteenth year of Asa, Zerah the
Ethiopian, with a mighty army of or million, invaded his kingdom, and advanced unopposed in
the field as far as the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. The Egyptian monuments enable us to
picture the general disposition of Zerah’s army. The chariots formed the first corps in a single or
double line; behind them, massed in phalanxes, were heavy-armed troops; probably on the flanks
stood archers and horsemen in lighter formations. After a prayer by Asa, his army attacked the
Egyptians and defeated them. The chariots, broken by the charge and with horses made
unmanageable by flights of arrows must have been forced back upon the cumbrous host behind.
So complete was the overthrow that the Hebrews could capture and spoil the cities around Gerah
which must have been in alliance with Zerah. The defeat of the Egyptian army is without parallel
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