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Jehoahaz III of Judah (Hebrew: יְהוֹאָחָז, Yǝhōʾāḥāz, "Yahweh has held"; Greek: Ιωαχαζ Iōakhaz; Latin: Joachaz), also called Shallum, [1] was the seventeenth king of Judah (3 months in 609 BC) and the fourth son [2] of king Josiah whom he succeeded. [3] His mother was Hamautal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. He was born ...
Jehoahaz of Israel (815–801 BC or 814–798 BC), eleventh king of Israel and son of Jehu; Jehoahaz of Judah (633/632–609 BC), seventeenth king of Judah and son of Josiah (Jehoahaz III of Judah) The youngest son of Jehoram, king of Judah (2 Chronicles 21:17; 22:1, 6, 8, 9), more commonly known as Ahaziah (Jehoahaz I of Judah)
Ahaz (Hebrew: אָחָז, ʼĀḥāz, "has held"; Greek: Ἄχαζ, Ἀχάζ Akhaz; Latin: Achaz) [1] an abbreviation of Jehoahaz II (of Judah), "Yahweh has held" (Hebrew: יְהוֹאָחָז, Modern: Yəhō’aḥaz, Tiberian: Yŏhō’āḥāz; [2] Akkadian: 𒅀𒌑𒄩𒍣 Ya'úḫazi [ia-ú-ḫa-zi]) [3] was the twelfth king of Judah, and the son and successor of Jotham.
2 Kings 13:25 suggests that Jehoahaz's son Joash, who recaptured a number of Israelite cities in three successful battles, could have been the deliverer referred to in 2 Kings 13:5, and the Geneva Study Bible maintains this view, [4] but the Jerusalem Bible [5] and the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges [6] argue that Jeroboam II, Joash's son, was the deliverer, citing 2 Kings 14:27:
2 Kings 23 is the twenty-third chapter of the second part of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the Second Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE. [3]
The nativity accounts in the New Testament gospels of Matthew and Luke do not mention a date or time of year for the birth of Jesus. [a] Karl Rahner states that the authors of the gospels generally focused on theological elements rather than historical chronologies. [6] Both Luke and Matthew associate Jesus' birth with the time of Herod the ...
Deep grief over death and destruction in Gaza pervades the holiday, the priest said, but he also saw this season as a beacon of much-needed hope. “These are very, very sad times,” he said.
The creation of a literalist chronology of the Bible faces several hurdles, of which the following are the most significant: . There are different texts of the Jewish Bible, the major text-families being: the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the original Hebrew scriptures made in the last few centuries before Christ; the Masoretic text, a version of the Hebrew text curated by the Jewish ...