JUSHAB-HESED (ion zzni,, Mercy I's' re .... _ turned ; LXX. 'Ao-o(3d; Alex. 'Acropcao-S ; Vulg. 7osab-hesed), usually regarded as the proper name of one of the returned captives, son of Zerubbabel (1 Chron. iii. 2o) ; and if so, given most probably in anticipation of the return of the captivity, and expressive, therefore, of faith in the divine promise and prophecy, as well as designed to mark and commemorate the mercy of God returned to Israel to restore them to their own land.
\Vhy the five children of this verse should be reckoned separately from the three named in the 19th has been considered a great difficulty ; and it has been suggested that these five were sons of Zerubbabel by a different wife, or that they were born after the return from captivity. A more likely conjecture is, that the text in this place is corrupt, which derives confirmation from the cir cumstance that the conjunction 1, and, is omitted before Jushab-Hesed, although occurrin, before every other name in the two verses. Datlie makes two names of Jushab-Hesed. It is probably not a proper name at all, but a phrase expressive of gratitude. And we hazard the additional conjec ture, that L,'5V1,.five, of ver. 2o, has, by a blunder of the scribe, changed places with nut), six, of ver. 22 ; for Slaemaiah has in reality, only five sons,
while, if we take Jushab-Hesed as just proposed, Zerubbabel has six.—I. J.
jUSTI, KARL WILHELM, a Protestant theolo gian, was born at Marburg, 14th January 1767. After studying for some years in his native place and at Jena, he became a private tutor at Metzlar, whence he removed to Marburg as a preacher in one of the churches there, 179o. In 1793 he was chosen professor of philosophy in the university. In 18o1 he was appointed archdeacon ; soon after Superintendent and Consistorialrath. In 1814 Ile was made Oberpfarrer ; and in 1822 professor of theology. He clied 7th August 1846. Justi de voted himself to the explanation of the O. and N. T., after the method of Eichhorn and Herder to whom he was by no means equal in genius. 'Ile was a man of erudition, taste, and liberality, superficial rather than profound. The prophets of the O. T. occupied his chief attention. He pub lished Nationalgesiinge der Hebraer, ISo3-1818, 3 vols. ; an enlarged edition of Herder's Geist der Hebrdische poesie, 1S29, 2 VOIS. ; Blunien althebrd ischer Dichtkunst, 1809, 2 VO1S. ; and Sionitischen Harfenkkinge, 1829.—S. D.