1881.] 42J [Lesley. 



It is evident that tlie second list in Chronicles is a had copy of the list in 

 2 Samuel, or of some document the source of hoth lists, from the blunder 

 of the scribe in repeating Elishama* and Eliplialet, Wliere the chronicler 

 got his Nogali can only be conjectured from its distant resemblance to the 

 following name Nepheg. 



How many other errors of transcription there may be in both lists no 

 one can now find out. But it is evident the Jah does not occur in any one 

 of the names of the eleven children of the reputed founder of the Jali 

 cultus, said to have been born to him in Jerusalem, where he is supposed 

 to have prepared the site of the Ja?i temple, its erection being only pre- 

 vented by the superior influence of the Jah high prophet Nathan, whose 

 name one of his children in the Jerusalem list bore. The meaning of this 

 obstruction has been much debated. Shiloh in Ephraim had an ancient 

 prescriptive right to the Egyptian Ark of the Exodus; and Nathan, its then 

 president prophet, foresaw the rupture which actually ensued when the 

 Ark which belonged to the Beni Israel was taken to glorify the Anshi- 

 Judah, and the provincial Baal-Apis Avorship of the north was swallowed 

 up in the metropolitan Jah worship of the south. 



Nathan, rnj, "he gives," "he gave," is the orthodox etymology of the 

 name both of David's son and of his tutor, the old prophet of the ark at 

 Shiloh. 



I propose a very different and purely Egyptian etymology -.—Neter-hon, 

 the commonest of all the titles on the monuments. Its adoption by the 

 prophet of Shiloh would be of unquestionable propriety. The following 

 examples will suffice to explain its use in the hieroglyphic legends : — 



On a stele, found in the Serapeum, and now deposited in the Louvre, 

 Psametik-munyr calls himself: — "Prophet of Isis, lady of the Pyramid, 

 Osor-hapi, and of Hor-m-a;fU the great Sphinx," and then adds the follow- 

 ing additional titles to his name :f — 



@5^I11$^9 IfSEill 



neter'hon, 



These were the three earliest Pharaohs of the Fourth or Pyramid build- 

 ing dynasty, and to every pyramid there were consecrated sepulchral rites 

 and a resident priesthood, as is the case in all Catholic countries now, 

 priesthoods being invariably attached to churches built over tombs, with 

 shrines for the worship of dead saints, martyrs and royal benefactors of 

 religion. This title Neter-hon was in constant use from its earliest appear- 

 ance 3000 B. C. down to the conquest of Egypt by Alexander, 332 B. C. 

 and later. It was exceedingly common in the time of David and Solomon ; 



* This is, however, not a repetition, but a misreading of EUshua (3 for j') in 

 the other list. 



fThe absence of any genitive form is cliaracteristic. It may be used as an 

 argument for the archteic character of such liebrew names as Absalom, instead 

 ot Abi-salo7n. 



