habitation.) God inhabits eternity (Isaiah 57:15), i.e., dwells not only
among men, but in eternity, where time is unknown; and “the praises of
Israel” (Psalm 22:3), i.e., he dwells among those praises and is continually
surrounded by them.
- HABOR the united stream, or, according to others, with beautiful banks,
the name of a river in Assyria, and also of the district through which it
flowed (1 Chronicles 5:26). There is a river called Khabur which rises in
the central highlands of Kurdistan, and flows south-west till it falls into
the Tigris, about 70 miles above Mosul. This was not, however, the Habor
of Scripture.
There is another river of the same name (the Chaboras) which, after a
course of about 200 miles, flows into the Euphrates at Karkesia, the
ancient Circesium. This was, there can be little doubt, the ancient Habor.
- HACHILAH the darksome hill, one of the peaks of the long ridge of
el-Kolah, running out of the Ziph plateau, “on the south of Jeshimon” (i.e.,
of the “waste”), the district to which one looks down from the plateau of
Ziph (1 Samuel 23:19). After his reconciliation with Saul at Engedi
(24:1-8), David returned to Hachilah, where he had fixed his quarters. The
Ziphites treacherously informed Saul of this, and he immediately (26:1-4)
renewed his pursuit of David, and “pitched in the hill of Hachilah.” David
and his nephew Abishai stole at night into the midst of Saul’s camp, when
they were all asleep, and noiselessly removed the royal spear and the cruse
from the side of the king, and then, crossing the intervening valley to the
height on the other side, David cried to the people, and thus awoke the
sleepers. He then addressed Saul, who recognized his voice, and
expostulated with him. Saul professed to be penitent; but David could not
put confidence in him, and he now sought refuge at Ziklag. David and Saul
never afterwards met. (1 Samuel 26:13-25). - HADAD Adod, brave(?), the name of a Syrian God. (1.) An Edomite king
who defeated the Midianites (Genesis 36:35; 1 Chronicles 1:46).
(2.) Another Edomite king (1 Chronicles 1:50, 51), called also Hadar
(Genesis 36:39; 1 Chronicles 1:51).
(3.) One of “the king’s seed in Edom.” He fled into Egypt, where he
married the sister of Pharaoh’s wife (1 Kings 11:14-22). He became one of
Solomon’s adversaries.