{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/ebd/ebd243.htm","path":"bib/ebd/ebd243.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/ebd/ebd243.htm","text":"Maschil Instructing, occurs in the title of thirteen Psalms (Psa 32:1, Psa 42:1, 44, etc.). It denotes a song enforcing some lesson of wisdom or piety, a didactic song. In Psa 47:7 it is rendered, Authorized Version, \"with understanding;\" Revised Version, marg., \"in a skillful psalm.\"\nMash =Meshech (Ch1 1:17), one of the four sons of Aram, and the name of a tribe descended from him (Gen 10:23) inhabiting some part probably of Mesopotamia. Some have supposed that they were the inhabitants of Mount Masius, the present Karja Baghlar, which forms part of the chain of Taurus.\nMashal Entreaty, a levitical town in the tribe of Asher (Ch1 6:74); called Mishal (Jos 21:30).\nMason An artificer in stone. The Tyrians seem to have been specially skilled in architecture (Kg1 5:17, Kg1 5:18; Sa2 5:11). This art the Hebrews no doubt learned in Egypt (Exo 1:11, Exo 1:14), where ruins of temples and palaces fill the traveler with wonder at the present day.\nMasrekah Vineyard of noble vines, a place in Idumea, the native place of Samlah, one of the Edomitish kings (Gen 36:36; Ch1 1:47).\nMassa A lifting up, gift, one of the sons of Ishmael, the founder of an Arabian tribe (Gen 25:14); a nomad tribe inhabiting the Arabian desert toward Babylonia.\nMassah Trial, temptation, a name given to the place where the Israelites, by their murmuring for want of water, provoked Jehovah to anger against them. It is also called Meribah (Exo 17:7; Deu 6:16; Psa 95:8, Psa 95:9; Heb 3:8).\nMattan Gift. (1.) A priest of Baal, slain before his altar during the reformation under Jehoiada (Kg2 11:18). (2.) The son of Eleazar, and father of Jacob, who was the father of Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary (Mat 1:15). (3.) The father of Shephatiah (Jer 38:1).\nMattanah A gift, a station of the Israelites (Num 21:18, Num 21:19) between the desert and the borders of Moab, in the Wady Waleh.\nMattaniah Gift of Jehovah. (1.) A Levite, son of Heman, the chief of the ninth class of temple singers (Ch1 25:4, Ch1 25:16). (2.) A Levite who assisted in purifying the temple at the reformation under Hezekiah (Ch2 29:13). (3.) The original name of Zedekiah (q.v.), the last of the kings of Judah (Kg2 24:17). He was the third son of Josiah, who fell at Megiddo. He succeeded his nephew Jehoiakin.","title":"Easton's Bible Dictionary","type":"page"}