McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Hattush

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Hattush


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(Heb. Chattush', çִèּåּùׁ , prob. assembled [Furst, contender]; Sept. Á᾿ôôïýò , but ×åôôïýò in 1Ch_3:22, and v.r. Ëáôôïýò in Ezr_8:2), the name of several men about or after the time of the return from Babylon.

1. A priest who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel (Neh_12:2). B.C. 536.

2. A descendant of David who accompanied Ezra to Jerusalem (Ezr_8:2). B.C. 459. See No. 5.

3. Son of Hashabniah, and one of those who rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem (Neh_3:10). B.C. 446. He was possibly the same with No. 2.

4. One of the priests who united in the sacred covenant with Nehemiah (Neh_10:4). B.C. cir. 410.

5. One of the sons of Shemaiah, among the posterity of Zerubbabel (1Ch_3:22), and contemporary with the Nagge of Luk_3:25 (see Strong's Harm. and Expos. of the Gospels, p. 17). B.C. somewhat post 406. By some he is identified with No. 2 above, reading Ezr_8:2 (after the (Sept.) thus: “of the sons of David; Hattush of the sons of Shechaniah.” This, however, is not only forbidden by other chronological notices, SEE DARIUS; SEE ZERUBBABEL, but rests on the too slender support for the genuineness of the text itself in question; where, as in Ezr_8:5, we may suppose that a name is missing, or that the name Shechaniah itself has crept in from the latter verse, since it appears nowhere else as that of a family head. SEE SHECHANIAH.