(asked of God), father of Zerubbabel. (Ezra 3:2,8; 5:2; Nehemiah 12:1; Haggai 1:1,12,14;
2:2,23) (B.C. about 580.)
Sheariah
(valued by Jehovah), one of the six sons of Azel a descendant of Saul. (1 Chronicles 8:38; 9:41)
Shearinghouse, The
a place on the road between Jezreel and Samaria, at which Jehu, on his way to the latter,
encountered forty-two members of the royal family of Judah, whom he slaughtered. (2 Kings
10:12,14) Eusebius mentions it as a village of Samaria “in the great plain [of Esdraelon], 15, miles
from Legion.”
Shearjashub
(lit. a remnant shall return), the symbolical name of the son of Isaiah the prophet. (Isaiah 7:3)
Sheba
one of the towns of the allotment of Simeon, (Joshua 19:2) probably the same as Shema. (Joshua
15:26)
(seven, or all oath).
•A son of Raamah son of Cush. (Genesis 10:7; 1 Chronicles 1:9)
•A soil of Joktan. (Genesis 10:28; 1 Chronicles 1:22)
•A son of Jokshan son of Keturah. (Genesis 25:3; 1 Chronicles 1:32) We shall consider, first, the
history of the Joktanite Sheba; and secondly, the Cushite Sheba and the Keturahite Sheba together.
I. The Joktanites were among the early colonists of southern Arabia, and the kingdom which they
there founded was for many centuries called the kingdom of Sheba, after one of the sons of Joktan.
The visit of the queen of Sheba to King Solomon. (1 Kings 10:1) is one of the familiar Bible
incidents. The kingdom of Sheba embraced the greater part of the Yemen, or Arabia Felix. It
bordered on the Red Sea, and was one of the most fertile districts of Arabia. Its chief cities, and
probably successive capitals, were Seba, San’a (Uzal), and Zafar (Sephar). Seba was probably the
name of the city, and generally of the country and nation. II. Sheba, son of Raamah son of Cush
settled somewhere on the shores of the Persian Gulf. It was this Sheba that carried on the great
Indian traffic with Palestine, in conjunction with, as we hold, the other Sheba, son of Jokshan son
of Keturah, who like Dedan appears to have formed, with the Cushite of the same name, one tribe.
(on oath), the son of Bichri, a Benjamite, (2 Samuel 20:1-22) the last chief of the Absalom
insurrection. The occasion seized by Sheba was the emulation between the northern and southern
tribes on David’s return. (2 Samuel 20:1,2) Sheba traversed the whole of Palestine apparently
rousing the population, Joab following in full pursuit to the fortress Abel Beth-maachah, where
Sheba was beheaded. (2 Samuel 20:3-22)
Shebah
(an oath), the famous well which gave its name to the city of Beersheba. (Genesis 26:53)
[Beersheba, Or Beersheba]
Shebam
(fragrance), one of the towns in the pastoral district on the east of Jordan; demanded by and
finally ceded to the tribes of Reuben and Gad. (Numbers 32:3) It is probably the same as Shibmah,
(Numbers 32:38) and Sibmah. (Joshua 13:13; Isaiah 16:8,9; Jeremiah 48:32)
Shebaniah
(increased by Jehovah).
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