(Greek form of Ezra), The First Book of, the first in order of the apocryphal books in the English
Bible. The first chapter is a transcript of the last two chapters of 2 Chron., for the most part verbatim,
and only in one or two parts slightly abridged and paraphrased. Chapters 3,4, and 5 to the end of
ver. 6, are the original portions of the book, and the rest is a transcript more or less exact of the
book of Ezra, with the chapters transposed and quite otherwise arranged, and a portion of Nehemiah.
Hence a twofold design in the compiler is discernible—one to introduce and give scriptural sanction
to the legend about Zerubbabel; the other to explain the great obscurities of the book of Ezra, in
which, however, he has signally failed. Its author is unknown, and it was probably written in Egypt.
It has no historical value.
the form of the name of Ezra the scribe in 1 and 2 Esdras.
Esdras, The Second Book Of
This exists in a Latin translation, the Greek being lost. Chapters 3-14 consist of a series of
angelic revelations and visions in which Ezra is instructed in some of the great mysteries of the
moral world, and assured of the final triumph of the righteous. The date of the book is uncertain.
Like the first book, it was probably written in Egypt.
Esek
(contention), a well which the herdsmen of Isaac dug in the valley of Gerar. (Genesis 26:20)
Eshbaal
(Baal’s man), (1 Chronicles 8:33; 9:39) the same as Ish-bosheth.
Eshban
(wise man), a Horite; one of the four sons of Dishon. (Genesis 36:26; 1 Chronicles 1:41)
Eshcol
(cluster of grapes), brother of Mamre the Amorite and of Aner, and one of Abraham’s
companions in his pursuit of the four kings who had carried off Lot. (Genesis 14:13,24) (B.C.
1912.).
Eshcol, The Valley
or The brook of, a wady in the neighborhood of Hebron (Mamre), explored by the spies who
were sent by Moses from Kadesh-barnea. (Numbers 13:23,24; 1:24) The name is still attached to
a spring of fine water called ’Ain Eshkali, in a valley about two miles north of Hebron.
Eshean
(slope), one of the cities of Judah. (Joshua 15:52)
Eshek
(oppression), one of the late descendants of Saul. (1 Chronicles 8:39)
Eshkalonites, The
(Joshua 13:3) [Ashkelon, Askelon]
Eshtaol
(a pass), a town in the low country—the Shefelah—of Judah, after wards allotted to Dan. (Joshua
15:33; 19:41) Here Samson spent his boyhood, and hither after his last exploit his body was brought.
(Judges 13:25; 16:31; 18:2,8,11,12)
Eshtaulites, The
with the Zareathites, were among the families of Kirjath-jearim. (1 Chronicles 2:53)
Eshtemoa
and in shorter form Eshtemoh (obedience), a town of Judah in the mountains, (Joshua 15:50)
allotted to the priest. (Joshua 21:14; 1 Chronicles 6:57) It was one of the places frequented by David
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