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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]
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.
The genealogy of the kings of Judah, along with the kings of Israel.. The Kings of Judah were the monarchs who ruled over the ancient Kingdom of Judah, which was formed in about 930 BC, according to the Hebrew Bible, when the United Kingdom of Israel split, with the people of the northern Kingdom of Israel rejecting Rehoboam as their monarch, leaving him as solely the King of Judah.
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 ...
Amaziah was an idolatrous [1] priest of Bethel (Amos 7:10–17), who lived during the reign of Jeroboam II of the Kingdom of Samaria. [2] Amaziah banned Amos from prophesying against Israel . [ 2 ] Francis Gigot considers it "probable" that Amos left Bethel in compliance with Amaziah's directives, and "withdrew to Juda[h]".
William F. Albright dates Uzziah's reign to 783–742 BC. [2] Edwin R. Thiele's chronology has Uzziah becoming coregent with his father Amaziah in 792/791 BCE [3] and sole ruler of Judah after his father's death in 768/767 BCE. According to Jewish tradition, Uzziah was struck with tzaraath for disobeying God (2 Kings 15:5, 2 Chronicles 26:19–21).
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]