. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . 18). We must regard them as closelyakin to the Hittites on whom they bordered, andwith whom they were generally in alliance. Nothing appears of the power of Hamath, until thetime of David (2 Sam. viii. 10). (Toi.) Hamathseems clearly to have been included in the domin-ions of Solomon (1 K. iv. 21-24). The store-cities, which Solomon built in Hamath (2 4), were places for collecting stores of provi-sions (xxxii. 28); when situated on the great trade-roads they were no doubt intended to relieve thewants of travellers and their beasts of burde
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . 18). We must regard them as closelyakin to the Hittites on whom they bordered, andwith whom they were generally in alliance. Nothing appears of the power of Hamath, until thetime of David (2 Sam. viii. 10). (Toi.) Hamathseems clearly to have been included in the domin-ions of Solomon (1 K. iv. 21-24). The store-cities, which Solomon built in Hamath (2 4), were places for collecting stores of provi-sions (xxxii. 28); when situated on the great trade-roads they were no doubt intended to relieve thewants of travellers and their beasts of burden (Ber-theau). In the Assyrian inscriptions of the timeof Ahab (b. c. 900) Hamath appears as a separatepower, in alliance with the Syrians of Damascus,the Hittites, and the Phenicians. About three-quarters of a century later, Jeroboam II. recov-ered Hamath (2 K. xiv. 28). Soon afterward theAssyrians took it (2 K. xviii. 34, xix. 13, &c), andfrom this time it ceased to be a place of much im-portance. Antiochus Epiphanes changed its name. to Epiphaneia. The natives, however, called it Ha-math, even in Jeromes time, and its present name,Hamah, is but slightly altered from the ancientform. The population is 30,000 (Porter in Kitto).Huge water-wheels raise water from the Orontes,which is conveyed by rude aqueducts to the gardensand houses in the upper town. Hamath-zobab (Heb. Hamath of Zobah, orfortress of Zobah) (2 Chr. viii. 3) has been conjec-tured to be = Hamath (so Gesenius, Alexander inKitto, &c). But Rawlinson supposes Hamath-Zobah~ another Hamath, distinguished from the GreatHamath by the suffix Zobah. Hamatli-ite (fr. Heb. = one from Hamath, Ges.),the, one of the families descended from Canaan,named last in the list (Gen. x. 18 ; 1 Chr. i. 16). Hammatll (Heb. warm springs, Ges.; hot baths),one of the fortified cities in Naphtali (Josh. xix. 35).The notices of the Talmudists leave no doubt that itwas near Tiberias, one mile distant—in fact that ithad its name because it co
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