ISHMAELITES. (Gen. xxxvii. 25.) The descendants of Ishmael. The company of Ishmaelites to whom Joseph was sold are elsewhere called Midianites. (Gen. xxxvii. 28.) Probably they were Ishmaelites who dwelt in Midian. It is evident, however, that the two names were sometimes applied to the same people, (Judges viii. 22, 24,) though we know the descendants of Midian were not Ishmaelites, [for Midian was a son of Abraham by Keturah.]

HAGAR. (Gen. xvi. 1.) An Egyptian woman, who lived in the family of Abraham, as a servant or bond woman. Sarah being childless, she proposed to Abraham that he should receive Hagar as his wife; and the fruit of this connection was Ishmael. Previous to his birth, his mother, being ill-treated by Sarah, fled from the house, and while in the wilderness, was informed by an angel what would be the character of her child, and that his posterity would be innumerable. The birth of Ishmael was in A. M. 2094; and as Abraham supposed that the promises of God respecting his seed were to be fulfilled in Ishmael, he nurtured him with much care.— (Gen. xvii. 18.)

AGAR, or HAGAR. This Agar is Mount Sinai, in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.-(Gal. iv. 25.)

HAGARENES, (Ps. lxxxiii. 6,) or HAGARITES, (1 Chron. v. 10, 20,) are the descendants of Hagar, and are of course the same with the Ishmaelites or Midianites.

PHARAOH was a king of Egypt, who gave his wife's sister in marriage to Hadad. His queen was Tahpenes, by whom he had Genubath.

HADAD. (1 Kings, xi. 14.) A descendant of the royal family of Edom. When David conquered that country, (2 Sam. viii. 14,) and cut off its male population, certain of the king's household escaped the general massacre, and fled, taking with them Hadad, then a little child. After a time, they went into Egypt, and young Hadad was presented to the king, and probably his royal descent was made known. The king received him with great favor, and in process of time he married the queen's sister, and the families were afterwards on terms of the closest intimacy. After David's death, Hadad request

ed Pharaoh to let him return to Edom.' And this he probably did, as we find him mentioned as Hadad the Edomite, and the adversary of Solomon.-(1 Kings, xi. 14-22.)

ALEXANDRIANS.

A class of Jews, natives of Alexandria, a city of Egypt in Africa, and speaking that language. They were very numerous at Jerusalem.-(Acts vi. 9.)

BERNICE, (Acts xxv. 13, 23,) or BERENICE, as the name is sometimes spelled, was the daughter of Agrippa, surnamed the Great, and sister to the younger Agrippa, king of the Jews. She was first betrothed to Mark, son of Alexander, governor of the Jews at Alexandria. She however married her own uncle, Herod, king of Chalcis. After his death, she married Polemon, king of Pontus, but abandoned him, and, returning to Agrippa, her brother, lived with him in incest. They sat with pomp to hear Paul preach. (Acts xxv.)

JOSEPH, (Gen. xxx. 24,) son of Jacob and Rachel, was born in Mesopotamia, A. M. 2256, and married the daughter of one of the priests or princes of Egypt, and had two children, Manasseh and Ephraim.

MANASSEH. (Gen. xli. 51.) The first-born of Joseph. When he and his brother Ephraim were boys, and Jacob, their grandfather, was about to die, Joseph took them into the patriarch's presence, to receive his blessing. On this occasion, he adopted them into his own family, as his own children, and in a most significant and interesting manner, predicted the superiority of Ephraim over Manasseh, as it respected numbers, &c. (Gen xlviii. 5-20. Comp. Num. i. 32, 33, 35: ii. 18, 20: Ps. lxxx. 2.)

EPHRAIM. 1. A person. (Gen. xli. 52.) The second son of Joseph. Though younger than Manasseh, he was the object of peculiar favor; and the prediction of their grandfather Jacob was literally fulfilled. (Comp. Gen. xlviii. 8-20: Num. ii. 18, 21.)

EPHRAIM. 2. Tribe of occupied one of the most eligible sections of the Land of Promise. The Mediterranean was on the west, and the river Jordan on the east, a portion of Manasseh on the north, and parts of Dan and Benjamin on the south. The city of Shiloh was

within the bounds of Ephraim; and after the revolt of the ten tribes, the capital of their kingdom was always within the bounds of Ephraim; and hence the whole kingdom is sometimes called Ephraim.- (Jer. xxxi. 9, 18, 20.)

EPHRAIM. 3. City of-- (2 Sam. xiii. 23.) A considerable town, situated about eight miles north of Jerusalem, on the way to Jericho, and within the bounds of the tribe of Benjamin. It was to this place, that our Savior retired after the raising of Lazarus, (John xi. 54,) and it is not improbable the same place is intended in 2 Chr. xiii. 19. ZEPHANIAH, (Jer. xxix. 25,) the son of Maasseiah, who is called the second priest, was put to death by Nebuchadnezzar, at Riblah.—(2 Kings xxv. 18-21.)

SAMUEL, an eminent prophet, born at Ramah, in the tribe of Ephraim, and from his birth dedicated by his mother to God's service. (1 Sam. iii. 1.)

JARHA married the daughter of Sheshan. [And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai. And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad, and Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed, and Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah, and Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum, and Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.]-(1 Chron. ii. 35-41.)

SOLOMON, the king, was building his own house thirteen years; and he finished all his house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, went up and took the city of Gezer from the Canaanites, and gave it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife. Ahimaaz was in Napthali; he took Basmath, the daughter of Solomon, to wife. The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath, the daughter of Solomon, to wife.-(1 Kings, chap. 4, 7, 9.) TAHPENES, the queen, was the wife of Pharaoh; and the sister of Tahpenes was the wife of Hadad, to whom she bare Genubath; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household, among the sons of Pharaoh.-(1 Kings xi. 14.) DAVID king of Israel-whose sister was Abigail, the wife of Jether the Ishmaelite; and she bare Amasa. (1 Chron. ii. 17.)

THE GENERATIONS OF JACOB.

JACOB, the second son of Isaac, and founder of the Jewish nation, was born, A. M. 2167. Jacob's wives were Rachel and Leah, the daughters of Laban, (Gen. xxviii. 2,) the brother of Rebekah. And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee. And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, unto his flock, and said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not towards me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me. And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? Are we not counted of him strangers? For he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money. For all the riches that God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's; now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do. Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; and he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father, in the land of Canaan.

The sons of Jacob were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulon, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher and Joseph; all these were the sons of Jacob, or Israel, that came with Jacob, their father, out of the land of Canaan into Egypt, except Joseph, who was already there. The Canaanites, were called by the Greeks, Phoenicians and Ethiopians!

And the children of Israel increased abundantly, and waxed exceedingly mighty; they married the daughters of Egypt, Ethiopia, &c.-(Genesis; Exodus, i. and xii.)

The sons of Reuben and their families were Hanoch, of whom cometh the Hanochites; Pallu, of whom cometh the Palluites; Hesron, of whom cometh the Hesronites; Carmi, of whom cometh the Carmites. These are the families of the Reubenites, and the number of them was forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty souls. -(Gen. xlvi.; Numbers xxvi)

Simeon, the second son of Jacob, was born in the year 2247. The sons of Simeon, by a Canaanitish or Ethio

pian woman, and their families, were Jemuel or Nemuel, of whom cometh the Nemuelites; Jemin, of whom cometh the Jeminites; Jachin, of whom cometh the Jachinites; Ohad, or Zerah, of whom cometh the Zerhites; and Shaul, of whom cometh the Shaulites. These are the families of the Simeonites, and the number of them was twenty-two thousand and two hundred souls.- (Gen. xlvi. Num. xxvi.)

Levi, (Gen. xxix. 34.) third son of Jacob and Leah. He was concerned in a bloody affair with the Shechemites, which occasioned the denunciatory and prophetic language of his father respecting him, (Gen. xlix. 5—7,) and which was fully verified in the history of his posterity. The opposition of his descendants to the idol-worship, which was practised by the others, was the occasion of the mitigation of their curse.- (Ex. xxvi. 29.) His descendants are called Levites. The sons of Levi, by a Canaanitish woman, and their families, were Gershon, of whom cometh the Gershonites; Kohath, of whom cometh the Kohathites; and Merari, of whom cometh the Merarites.

The sons of Gershon, and their families, were Libni, of whom cometh the Libnites; and Shimei, of whom cometh the Shimeites.

The sons of Kohath, and their families, were Amram, [the father of Moses, Aaron and Miriam,] of whom cometh the Amramites; Izchar, of whom cometh the Izcharites; Hebron, of whom cometh the Hebronites; and Uzziel, of whom cometh the Uzzielites.

The sons of Mahari were Mahli, of whom cometh the Mahlites; and Mushi, of whom cometh the Mushites.

The sons of Judah, by the daughter of Shuah, a Canaanitish or Ethiopian woman, the grand-daughter of Abraham and Keturah, were Er, Onan and Shelah. Er, and Onan the husband of Tamar, and after their death, Shelah their brother, were promised by Judah to Tamar, his daughter in-law. Through Tamar's seed came the Messiah. [Gen. xxv. 28; 1Chron. ii. 2; 1749 years B. C.] The sons of Judah by Tamar were Zerah, [the Ethiopian,] of whom cometh the Zarhites; and Pharez, his brother, of whom cometh the Pharezites. These were the families of Judah, and the number of them was