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Abijah is a person named in the Old Testament.She was the daughter of a Zachariah, possibly Zachariah the son of Jeberechiah (2 Chronicles 29:1; compare Book of Isaiah 8:2), and afterwards the wife of King Ahaz [1] (reigned c. 732 - 716 BCE) and mother of King Hezekiah (reigned c. 715-686 BCE).
Hephzibah or Hepzibah (English: / ˈ h ɛ f z ɪ b ə / or / ˈ h ɛ p z ɪ b ə /; Hebrew: חֶפְצִי־בָהּ, romanized: Ḥep̄ṣi-ḇāh, lit. 'my delight (is) in her') is a minor figure in the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible.
Hezekiah was healed, married Isaiah's daughter, and they had sons, among them Rabashka and Manasseh. In the Book of Ein Yaakov And in the glosses of the Ba'ach (on Ether) a continuation of the Midrash is given, and it is told that when King Hezekiah's two sons, Rabashka and Manasseh, grew up, he led them on his shoulders to the beit midrash to ...
The almah might be the mother of Hezekiah or a daughter of Isaiah, although there are problems with both candidates – Hezekiah, for example, was apparently born nine years before the prophecy was given, [32] – but the biblical chronology for Hezekiah is confused, and his identity as the prophesied child is strongly suggested by the ...
Medieval rabbis, including Isaiah di Trani and Hezekiah ben Manoah, calculate that she was 14. [11] [12] Twenty years elapsed before they had children; throughout that time, both Isaac and Rebecca prayed fervently to God for offspring. God eventually answered Isaac's prayers and Rebecca conceived.
A new film by the creators of “War Room” centers Christian faith, forgiveness and the power of providing mentorship for young Black men. The star of the new movie “The Forge” faced his own ...
The text of the Book of Isaiah refers to Isaiah as "the prophet", [11] but the exact relationship between the Book of Isaiah and the actual prophet Isaiah is complicated. The traditional view is that all 66 chapters of the book of Isaiah were written by one man, Isaiah, possibly in two periods between 740 BC and c. 686 BC, separated by ...
Isaiah 40-55 is known as "Deutero-Isaiah" and dates from the time of the Israelites' exile in Babylon. Chapter 47 concerns the fall of Babylon , [ 2 ] which is personified as a woman, "the virgin daughter of Babylon", "daughter of the Chaldeans", no longer to be called "the Lady of Kingdoms" or "a Lady for ever".