Rabbah Ammon, his capital, were so grossly insulted that he proclaimed
war against Hanun. David’s army, under the command of Joab, forthwith
crossed the Jordan, and gained a complete victory over the Moabites and
their allies (2 Samuel 10:1-14) at Medeba (q.v.).
(2.) Nehemiah 3:13. (3.) 3:30.
- HARA mountainous land, a province of Assyria (1 Chronicles 5:26),
between the Tigris and the Euphrates, along the banks of the Khabur, to
which some of the Israelite captives were carried. It has not been
identified. Some think the word a variation of Haran. - HARADAH fright; fear, the twenty-fifth station of the Israelites in their
wanderings (Numbers 33:24). - HARAN (1.) Hebrews haran; i.e., “mountaineer.” The eldest son of Terah,
brother of Abraham and Nahor, and father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah. He
died before his father (Genesis 11:27), in Ur of the Chaldees.
(2.) Hebrews haran, i.e., “parched;” or probably from the Accadian
charana, meaning “a road.” A celebrated city of Western Asia, now Harran,
where Abram remained, after he left Ur of the Chaldees, till his father
Terah died (Genesis 11:31, 32), when he continued his journey into the
land of Canaan. It is called “Charran” in the LXX. and in Acts 7:2. It is
called the “city of Nahor” (Genesis 24:10), and Jacob resided here with
Laban (30:43). It stood on the river Belik, an affluent of the Euphrates,
about 70 miles above where it joins that river in Upper Mesopotamia or
Padan-aram, and about 600 miles northwest of Ur in a direct line. It was on
the caravan route between the east and west. It is afterwards mentioned
among the towns taken by the king of Assyria (2 Kings 19:12; Isaiah
37:12). It was known to the Greeks and Romans under the name Carrhae.
(3.) The son of Caleb of Judah (1 Chronicles 2:46) by his concubine
Ephah.
- HARBONA (a Persian word meaning “ass-driver”), one of the seven
eunuchs or chamberlains of king Ahasuerus (Esther 1:10; 7:9). - HARE (Hebrews ‘arnebeth) was prohibited as food according to the
Mosaic law (Leviticus 11:6; Deuteronomy 14:7), “because he cheweth the
cud, but divideth not the hoof.” The habit of this animal is to grind its
teeth and move its jaw as if it actually chewed the cud. But, like the cony