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NadabAid to Bible Understanding
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NADAB
(Naʹdab) [generous, noble].
1. The firstborn son of Aaron and Elisheba. (Ex. 6:23; 1 Chron. 6:3) Nadab was born in Egypt and made the great exodus with Israel. He with his next younger brother Abihu and seventy other Israelites were called with Aaron and Moses up into Sinai, where they saw a vision of Jehovah. (Ex. 24:1, 9-11) Nadab and his three brothers were all installed into the priesthood with their father. (Ex. 28:1; 40:12-16) Within a month, however, Nadab and Abihu abused their office by offering illegitimate fire. Just what made the fire illegitimate is not stated, but it was probably more than just getting intoxicated (suggested by the immediate prohibition to priests not to drink wine or intoxicating liquor when on duty). However, intoxication may have contributed to their wrongdoing. For their transgression they were killed by fire from Jehovah and their bodies were disposed of outside the camp. (Lev. 10:1-11; Num. 26:60, 61) Nadab and Abihu died before they had fathered any sons, leaving their brothers Eleazar and Ithamar to found the two priestly houses.—Num. 3:2, 4; 1 Chron. 24:1, 2.
2. A descendant of Judah in the line of Jerahmeel; son of Shammai and father to Seled and Appaim.—1 Chron. 2:3, 25, 26, 28, 30.
3. A son of Jeiel of the tribe of Benjamin.—1 Chron. 8:1, 29, 30; 9:35, 36.
4. Son of Jeroboam and second king of the northern ten-tribe kingdom of Israel. Nadab ruled parts of two years, c. 976-975 B.C.E., during which he continued the calf worship instituted by his father. While besieging Gibbethon, a former Levite city (Josh. 21:20, 23) taken over by the Philistines, Nadab was assassinated by Baasha, who then killed off all remaining members of Jeroboam’s house in order to secure the throne for himself.—1 Ki. 14:20; 15:25-31.
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NaggaiAid to Bible Understanding
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NAGGAI
(Nagʹga·i) [probably the Greek form of the Hebrew name Nogah, meaning “splendor, brilliance”].
Ancestor of Jesus Christ listed in his genealogy as given by Luke.—Luke 3:23, 25.
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NahalalAid to Bible Understanding
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NAHALAL
(Na·halʹal) [perhaps, drinking place for flocks].
A city in Zebulun assigned to the Merarite Levites. (Josh. 19:10, 14, 15; 21:34, 35) It was also called Nahalol. Rather than driving out the Canaanites inhabiting this city as divinely instructed, the Zebulunites subjected them to forced labor. (Judg. 1:30; 2:2) It has been suggested that the site of Nahalal was perhaps at Tell el-Beida, about three miles (5 kilometers) to the SW of Maʽlul.
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NahalielAid to Bible Understanding
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NAHALIEL
(Na·halʹi·el) [perhaps, torrent valley of God].
A place where the Israelites encamped not long before their fight with Amorite King Sihon. (Num. 21:19-24) Eusebius’ Onomasticon locates it near the Arnon River. Nahaliel is therefore commonly linked with one of two wadies, the Wadi Wala (a tributary of the Arnon) and the Wadi Zerqua Maʽin about twelve miles (19 kilometers) N of the Arnon. A location on either of these wadies would fit the suggested identifications for Mattanah and Bamoth, the two Israelite encampments between which Nahaliel apparently lay.
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NahalolAid to Bible Understanding
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NAHALOL
(Naʹha·lol).
Alternate name for Nahalal, a city in Zebulun.—Judg. 1:30; See NAHALAL.
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NahamAid to Bible Understanding
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NAHAM
(Naʹham) [consolation].
Brother-in-law of Hodiah, a descendant of Judah.—1 Chron. 4:1, 19.
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NahamaniAid to Bible Understanding
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NAHAMANI
(Na·hamʹa·ni) [compassionate].
One who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylonian exile.—Neh. 7:6, 7.
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NaharaiAid to Bible Understanding
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NAHARAI
(Naʹha·rai) [snorter].
A Beerothite (Berothite) and one of Joab’s armor-bearers. Naharai was among the mighty men of David’s military forces.—2 Sam. 23:24, 37; 1 Chron. 11:26, 39.
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NahashAid to Bible Understanding
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NAHASH
(Naʹhash) [serpent].
1. King of the Ammonites at the time Saul began his reign. Nahash brought his army against Jabesh in Gilead. The account reads: “At that all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash: ‘Conclude a covenant with us that we may serve you.’ Then Nahash the Ammonite said to them: ‘On this condition I shall conclude it with you, on the condition of boring out every right eye of yours, and I must put it as a reproach upon all Israel.’ In turn the older men of Jabesh said to him: ‘Give us seven days’ time, and we will send messengers into all the territory of Israel and, if there is no savior of us, we must then go out to you.”’ Israel rallied around Saul, went to Jabesh and defeated Nahash.—1 Sam. 11:1-11; 12:11, 12.
If, as Josephus says (Antiquities of the Jews, Book VI, chap. V, par. 3), this Nahash was killed in the battle by Saul’s forces (only a few escaped alive [1 Sam. 11:11]), then the Nahash that extended kindness to David some years later must have been a son and successor to the Nahash defeated by Saul. In such a case, the name Nahash may have been a title bestowed on a series of persons, like the titles “Abimelech,” “Pharaoh,” and “Jabin.” When this second-named Nahash died, David sent ambassadors to his son Hanun, who misunderstood David’s honorable intentions and greatly humiliated his representatives. This, in turn, triggered a series of developments that eventually left the Ammonites defeated at the hands of David.—2 Sam. 10:1-5; 11:1; 12:26-31; 1 Chron. 19:1-5; 20:1-3.
2. The father of David’s half-sister Abigail and possibly the father of Zeruiah. He was the grandfather of Abishai, Joab, Asahel and Amasa. (2 Sam. 17:25; 1 Chron. 2:16) Abigail is called “the daughter of Nahash,” but she and her sister are nowhere called daughters of Jesse, David’s father. The verse in Chronicles simply states that they were “sisters” of Jesse’s sons, including David. This leaves several possible relationships: (1) That Nahash was a woman, Jesse’s wife and the mother of all involved (the name could be given to either sex), but this is not very likely because women were usually introduced into a genealogy only for special reasons, which here seem to be missing. (2) That Nahash was another name for Jesse, as suggested by early Jewish tradition. The Septuagint Version (Lagardian edition) has “Jesse” instead of Nahash in 2 Samuel 17:25. (3) That Nahash was a former husband of Jesse’s wife (a more likely suggestion), and that she bore Nahash two daughters, Abigail and Zeruiah, before marrying Jesse and bearing him several boys.—See ABIGAIL No. 2.
3. A resident of the Ammonite city of Rabbah. His son Shobi showed kindness to David by sending him supplies when he fled to Mahanaim because of Absalom’s rebellion. (2 Sam. 17:27-29) He was possibly an Israelite who went to live in Rabbah after the Ammonites there were defeated by Israel.—2 Sam. 12:26-31.
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NahathAid to Bible Understanding
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NAHATH
(Naʹhath) [quietness, rest or descent].
1. Sheik of Edom, son of Reuel and grandson of Esau and his wife Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter.—Gen. 36:2-4, 13, 17.
2. A Levite, descendant of Kohath, and ancestor of Samuel. (1 Chron. 6:16, 22-28) He is also called “Tohu” and “Toah.”—1 Sam. 1:1; 1 Chron. 6:33-35.
3. A Levite appointed by King Hezekiah as commissioner to assist Conaniah and Shimei with the oversight of “the contribution and the tenth and the holy things” brought to the temple.—2 Chron. 31:12, 13.
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NahbiAid to Bible Understanding
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NAHBI
(Nahʹbi) [hidden].
Son of Vophsi of the tribe of Naphtali. He was one of the twelve men Moses sent to spy out the land of Canaan and was among those returning with a bad report.—Num. 13:1-3, 14, 16, 31-33.
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