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Ahaz was 20 when he became king of Judah and reigned for 16 years. Ahaz is portrayed as an evil king in the Second Book of Kings (2 Kings 16:2). In Edwin R. Thiele's opinion, Ahaz was co-regent with Jotham from 736/735 BC, and his sole reign began in 732/731 and ended in 716/715 BC. [4] However, William F. Albright has dated his reign to 744 ...
The most well known excerpt of the text, including the reference to king Ahaz (written in the inscription as Jeho-ahaz, his longer name) of Judah, as translated by the University of Pennsylvania's RINAP project (The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period), is as below:
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And Ozias begat Jotham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias; The World English Bible translates the passage as: Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah. For a collection of other versions see BibleHub Matthew 1:9.
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).
The Assyrians intervened on behalf of Judah, conquering Israel, Aram-Damascus and the Philistines. However, the post-war alliance only brought more trouble for the king of Judah. Ahaz had to pay tribute to Tiglath-Pileser III with treasures from the Temple in Jerusalem and the royal treasury. He also built idols of Assyrian gods in Judah to ...
The child Maher-shalal-hash-baz is the second prophetic-name child after the birth of Immanuel – traditionally [according to whom?] understood as the son of Abi the bride of king Ahaz, i.e., the future king Hezekiah, by many Jewish commentators, [which?] or of another woman.
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) The full name of Ahaz of Judah, by which he is mentioned in the annals of Tiglath-Pileser III (Jehoahaz II ...
In 738 BC, according to Ibn Ezra [6] and the Citadels, [7] Uriah signed Isaiah's prophecy as a faithful witness, assumably because of his perceived righteousness [8] (the Sages identify the Uriah in Isaiah with Uriah the prophet). [9]