- NACHON prepared, the owner of a thrashing-floor near which Uzzah
was slain (2 Samuel 6:6); called also Chidon (1 Chronicles 13:9). - NADAB liberal, generous. (1.) The eldest of Aaron’s four sons (Exodus
6:23; Numbers 3:2). He with his brothers and their father were consecrated
as priests of Jehovah (Exodus 28:1). He afterwards perished with Abihu
for the sin of offering strange fire on the altar of burnt-offering (Leviticus
10:1,2; Numbers 3:4; 26:60).
(2.) The son and successor of Jeroboam, the king of Israel (1 Kings 14:20).
While engaged with all Israel in laying siege to Gibbethon, a town of
southern Dan (Joshua 19:44), a conspiracy broke out in his army, and he
was slain by Baasha (1 Kings 15:25-28), after a reign of two years (B.C.
955-953). The assassination of Nadab was followed by that of his whole
house, and thus this great Ephraimite family became extinct (1 Kings
15:29).
(3.) One of the sons of Shammai in the tribe of Judah (1 Chronicles 2:28,
30).
- NAGGE illuminating, one of the ancestors of Christ in the maternal line
(Luke 3:25). - NAHALIEL possession, or valley of God, one of the encampments of the
Israelites in the wilderness (Numbers 21:19), on the confines of Moab.
This is identified with the ravine of the Zerka M’ain, the ancient Callirhoe,
the hot springs on the east of the Jordan, not far from the Dead Sea. - NAHALLAL pasture, a city in Zebulun on the border of Issachar (Joshua
19:15), the same as Nahalol (Judges 1:30). It was given to the Levites. It
has been by some identified with Malul in the plain of Esdraelon, 4 miles
from Nazareth. - NAHARAI snorer, a Berothite, one of David’s heroes, and armour-bearer
of Joab (1 Chronicles 11:39). - NAHASH serpent. (1.) King of the Ammonites in the time of Saul. The
inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead having been exposed to great danger from
Nahash, sent messengers to Gibeah to inform Saul of their extremity. He
promptly responded to the call, and gathering together an army he marched
against Nahash. “And it came to pass that they which remained were