•The son of Besodeiah: he assisted Jehoiada the son of Paseah in restoring the old gate of Jerusalem.
(Nehemiah 3:6)
•One of those who stood at the left hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people. (Nehemiah
8:4)
•A priest or family of priests who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:7)
•One of the heads of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:20)
•A priest in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, and representative of the house of Ezra. (Nehemiah
12:13)
•Also a priest at the same time as the preceding, and head of the priestly family of Ginnethon.
(Nehemiah 12:16)
•A family of porters, descendants of Meshullam, (Nehemiah 12:25) who is also called Meshelemiah,
(1 Chronicles 26:1) Shelemiah, (1 Chronicles 26:14) and Shallum. (Nehemiah 7:45)
•One of the princes of Judah at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 12:33)
Meshullemeth
(friend), the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah, wife of Manasseh king of Judah, and mother of his
successor, Amon. (2 Kings 21:19)
Mesobaite, The
a title attached to the name of Jasiel. (1 Chronicles 11:47) It is impossible to pronounce with
any certainty to what it refers.
Mesopotamia
(between the rivers), the entire country between the two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates.
This is a tract nearly 700 miles long and from 20 to 250 miles broad, extending in a southeasterly
direction from Telek to Kurnah. The Arabian geographers term it “the Island,” a name which is
almost literally correct, since a few miles only intervene between the source of the Tigris and the
Euphrates at Telek. But the region which bears the name of Mesopotamia, par excellence, both in
Scripture and in the classical writers, is the northwestern portion of this tract, or the country between
the great bend of the Euphrates, lat. 35 degrees to 37 degrees 30’, and the upper Tigris. We first
hear of Mesopotamia in Scripture as the country where Nahor and his family settled after quitting
Ur of the Chaldees. (Genesis 24:10) Here lived Bethuel and Laban; and hither Abraham sent his
servants to fetch Isaac a wife. Ibid. ver. 38. Hither too, a century later, came Jacob on the same
errand; and hence he returned with his two wives after an absence of twenty-one years. After this
we have no mention of Mesopotamia till the close of the wanderings int he wilderness. (23:4) About
half a century later we find, for the first and last time, Mesopotamia the seat of a powerful monarchy.
(Judges 3:1) ... Finally, the children of Ammon, having provoked a war with David, “sent a thousand
talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah,
and out of Zobah.” (1 Chronicles 19:6) According to the Assyrian inscriptions Mesopotamia was
inhabited in the early times of the empire, B.C. 1200-1100, by a vast number of petty tribes, each
under its own prince, and all quite independent of one another. The Assyrian monarchs contended
with these chiefs at great advantage, and by the time of Jehu, B.C. 880, had fully established their
dominion over them. On the destruction of the Assyrian empire, Mesopotamia seems to have been
divided between the Medes and the Babylonians. The conquests of Cyrus brought it wholly under
the Persian yoke; and thus it continued to the time of Alexander. Since 1516 it has formed a part
of the Turkish empire. It is full of ruins and mounds of ancient cities, some of which are now
throwing much light on the Scripture.
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