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The second Book of Kings and the second Book of Chronicles in the Hebrew Bible consider him a righteous king, but with some hesitation. [2] He is praised for killing the assassins of his father only and sparing their children, as dictated by the Mosaic Law. Edwin R. Thiele dates Amaziah's reign from 797/796 to 768/767 BCE. [3]
2 Chronicles 25 is the twenty-fifth chapter of the Second Book of Chronicles the Old Testament in the Christian Bible or of the second part of the Books of Chronicles in the Hebrew Bible. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book is compiled from older sources by an unknown person or group, designated by modern scholars as "the Chronicler", and had the final shape ...
The book was originally his doctoral dissertation and is widely regarded as the definitive work on the chronology of Hebrew Kings. [2] The book is considered the classic and comprehensive work in reckoning the accession of kings, calendars, and co-regencies, based on biblical and extra-biblical sources.
Amaziah is described as throwing 10,000 Edomites to their death from the heights of Sela (2 Chronicles 25:12; 2 Kings 14:7). [3] When Amaziah took Sela he called it Joktheel (also spelled Jokteel and Jectehel ) (q.v.) (Hebrew: יָקְתְאֵל, Yoqtĕ-’Ēl, "the blessedness of God" or "subdued by God"; [1] Latin: Jectehel) or Kathoel (Greek ...
2 Chronicles 26 is the twenty-sixth chapter of the Second Book of Chronicles the Old Testament in the Christian Bible or of the second part of the Books of Chronicles in the Hebrew Bible. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book is compiled from older sources by an unknown person or group, designated by modern scholars as "the Chronicler", and had the final shape ...
Zechariah is then understood as representing the last of the martyrs recorded in the Masoretic Text (since the Hebrew sequence of books ends with 2 Chronicles). [3] Dale C. Allison notes that Luke 11:49–51 echoes 2 Chron 24:17–25 by referring to the sending of the prophets, the blood of Zechariah and the temple precinct. [4]
There may be no one who can say "I told you so" better than George Orwell, who was born today, June 25th in 1903. In Orwell's novel "1984" — which was published in 1949 — the English author ...
2 Kings 14 is the fourteenth 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]