BOOTY

spoils taken in war, Num. xxx i, 27–32. According to the law of Moses, the booty was to be divided equally between those who were in the battle and those who were in the camp, whatever disparity there might be in the number of each party. The law farther required that, out of that part of the spoils which was a igned to the fighting men, the Lord’s share should be separated; and for every five hundred men, oxen, a es, sheep, , they were to take one for the high priest, as being the Lord’s first fruits. And out of the other moiety, belonging to the children of Israel, they were to give for every fifty men, oxen, a es, sheep, , one to the Levites. BOOZ, or BOAZ, the son of Salmon and Rahab, Ruth iv, 21, Matt., i, 5. Rahab, we know, was a Can a a nite of Jericho, Joshua ii, 1. Salmon, who was of the tribe of Judah, married her, and she bore him Booz, one of our Saviour’s ancestors according to the flesh. Some say there were three of this name, the son, the grandson, and the great grandson, of Salmon: the last Booz was Ruth’s husband, and the father of Obed. 2. Booz , or Boaz , was the name of one of the two brazen pillars which Solomon erected in the porch of the temple, the other column being called Jachin. This last pillar was on the right hand of the entrance into the temple, and Booz on the left, 1 Kings vii, 21. The word signifies strength or firmne . Mr. Hutch in son has an expre treatise upon these two columns, attempting to show that they represented the true system of the universe, which he insists was given by God to David, and by him to Solomon, and was wrought by Hiram upon these pillars. BOSOM. See Accubation .