A DICTIONARY OF THE HOLY BIBLE: CONTAINING THE WHOLE COMPRISING An Historical account of the Persons: All mentioned in the Writings of the Old and Geographical and Historical account of the New Testaments. Places: A Literal, Critical, and Systematical Description of other Objects, whether Natural, Artificial, Civil, Religious, or Mi-th Antiquities of the Hebrew Nation and litary; AND Whatever important is known concerning Church of God; forming a Sacred Commentary, a Body of Scripture History, Chronology, and Divinity; and serving in a The Explication of the Appellative Terms, great measure as a Concordance to the Bible. DICTIONARY OF THE HOLY BIBLE. JAB WHEN it relates to God, is ex JAB inhabitants of this city, neglecting I pressive of his dignity, Psal. to join their brethren against the Ixxxi. 10.; his power, Gen. xvii. 1.; Benjamites in the affair of Gibeah, his self-existence and unchangeable- were all put to the sword, except ness, Exod. iii. 14.; or the certain- 400 virgins who were bestowed on ty of his promises and threaten- the surviving Benjamites, Judg. xxi. ings, Exod. vi. 2.; Numb. xiv. About 310 years after, this city sus35. Referring to men, it expresses tained a furious siege from Nahash their pride, Isa. xlvii. 8.; the cer- king of the Ammonites; and the intainty of what they say, Gal. v. 2. habitants could obtain no terms, but Phil. iii. 19.; and their readiness to of having their right eyes pulled out, perform their duty, Mic. iii. 8. as a reproach to Israel. Unwilling Matth. xxi. 30. to submit directly, they obtained a truce of seven days; before the end of which, Saul, at their request, raised an army, routed the Ammonites, and raised the siege. In the grateful remembrance of which, the valiant men of Jabesh, about 40 years after, at the hazard of their lives, took the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hung them, and gave them a decent interment, 1 Sam. xi. and xxxi. 1 Chron. x. 11, 12. JABAL. See LAMECH. JABBOK; a brook on the east of Jordan, rising in the mountains of Gilead, and falling into Jordan a little south of the sea of Tiberias. It separated the kingdom of Sihon from that of Og king of Bashan; and near to it Jacob wrestled with the Angel of the covenant, and prevailed, Deut. ii. 37. Gen. xxxii. 22. JABESH, or JABESH-GILEAD; a city of the eastern Manassites, at the foot of mount Gilead, about six miles from Pella, where the Christian Jews found refuge amidst the ruins of Judea by the Romans. It was at no great distance from Gadara. The VOL. II. No. 8. JABEZ, appears to have been a descendant of Judah by Ashur. His mother bare him with much pain and sorrow, which was the cause of A |