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land of Hamath? (2 Kings 25:21).
(3.) A Kohathite ancestor of the prophet Samuel (1 Chronicles 6:36).
(4.) The father of Josiah, the priest who dwelt in Jerusalem when Darius
issued the decree that the temple should be rebuilt (Zechariah 6:10).
Another Bible Timeline fact –>ZEPHATH beacon; watch-tower, a Canaanite town; called also Hormah
(q.v.), Judges 1:17. It has been identified with the pass of es-Sufah, but
with greater probability with S?beita.
Another Bible Timeline fact –>ZEPHATHAH a valley in the west of Judah, near Mareshah; the scene of
Asa?s conflict with Zerah the Ethiopian (2 Chronicles 14:9-13). Identified
with the Wady Safieh.
Another Bible Timeline fact –>ZERAH sunrise. (1.) An ?Ethiopian,? probably Osorkon II., the
successor of Shishak on the throne of Egypt. With an enormous army, the
largest we read of in Scripture, he invaded the kingdom of Judah in the
days of Asa (2 Chronicles 14:9-15). He reached Zephathah, and there
encountered the army of Asa. This is the only instance ?in all the annals of
Judah of a victorious encounter in the field with a first-class heathen
power in full force.? The Egyptian host was utterly routed, and the
Hebrews gathered ?exceeding much spoil.? Three hundred years elapsed
before another Egyptian army, that of Necho (B.C. 609), came up against
Jerusalem.
(2.) A son of Tamar (Genesis 38:30); called also Zara (Matthew 1:3).
(3.) A Gershonite Levite (1 Chronicles 6:21, 41).
Another Bible Timeline fact –>ZERED =Zared, luxuriance; willow bush, a brook or valley communicating
with the Dead Sea near its southern extremity (Numbers 21:12;
Deuteronomy 2:14). It is called the ?brook of the willows? (Isaiah 15:7)
and the ?river of the wilderness? (Amos 6:14). It has been identified with
the Wady el-Aksy.
Another Bible Timeline fact –>ZEREDA the fortress, a city on the north of Mount Ephraim; the
birthplace of Jeroboam (1 Kings 11:26). It is probably the same as Zaretan
(Joshua 3:16), Zererath (Judges 7:22), Zartanah (1 Kings 4:12), or the
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