AHAZIAH

āhəzīˈə, in the Bible. 1 King of Israel, son of Ahab. He was a worthy successor of his father only in that he followed Ahab's religious views. He was succeeded by his brother Jehoram1.2 King of Judah, son of Jehoram2 and Athaliah1. He was considered a typical descendant of Ahab. He was killed in Jehu's coup while visiting at Jezreel. His mother succeeded him. He is also called Azariah and Jehoahaz.

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books on: Ahaziah  - 180 results

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The Complete Bible: An American Translation
Book by J. M. Powis Smith, Edgar J. Goodspeed; University of Chicago Press, 1939
Subjects: Bible--English--1939--Smith-Goodspeed
...not in the sepulcher of the kings. AHAZIAH AND ATHALIAH, 22:1-12 Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem 22 made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his stead...camp had slain all the older sons. So Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, became king...
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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Vol. 1
Book by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, Everett F. Harrison, Roland K. Harrison, William Sanford Lasor, Edgar W. Smith; W.B. Eerdmans, 1979
Subjects: Bible--Dictionaries
...SCHULTZ AHAZ, DIAL OF. See DIAL OF AHAZ. AHAZIAH a-ha-zia Heb. 111.1az.vii...Jezebel (1 K. 22:51-2 K. 1:18). Ahaziah succeeded his father as king in the seventeenth...Philistine city of Ekron. The accession of Ahaziah encouraged Moab to rebel against Israel...
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Revised Standard Version
Book by Not Cited; Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1952
Subjects: Bible--English--Revised English--1952
...22 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead; for...the camp had slain all the older sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. 2 Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to...
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Music in the Old Bones: Jezebel through the Ages
Book by Janet Howe Gaines; Southern Illinois University Press, 1999
Subjects: Jezebel--Queen, Consort Of Ahab, King Of Israel, Jezebel--Queen, Consort Of Ahab, King Of Israel--In Literature
...with his ancestors, and his wicked son Ahaziah ascends to the throne and rules briefly...Prophet Denouncing Jezebel and Ahabs son Ahaziah is one of the last things that the prophet...does before his own exit. Judgment on Ahaziah comes as soon as he begins his two-year...
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When Brothers Dwell Together: The Preeminence of Younger Siblings in the Hebrew Bible
Book by Frederick E. Greenspahn; Oxford University Press, 1994
Subjects: Bible--O.T--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Brothers In The Bible, First-Born Children In The Bible, Sisters In The Bible
...Chronicles account of the accession of Ahaziah, son of Jehoram, to the Judean throne...death 2 Kings 8:24 , Chronicles presents Ahaziah as the youngest in his family, explaining...skeptical about this particular episode. For Ahaziah to have been forty-two at the time of...
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journal articles on: Ahaziah  - 13 results

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The Chronology of Saul and David
Journal article by Leslie McFall; Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 53, 2010
...what follows will not make sense. 3. Ahaziah king of Judah as the son of an era. Another...than a. personal age, is the age of Ahaziah king of Judah when he became king. Second...apparently contradicts this when it states that Ahaziah was "a son of forty and two years30 when...
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When Did Solomon Die?
Journal article by Rodger C. Young; Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 46, 2003
...To test this, consider the case of Ahaziah of Israel, who, according to the Israelite...this date with the known beginning for Ahaziah in 853n. For accession reckoning, the...Dates for Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah in this table are calculated in the text...
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"Going Down" to Bethel: Elijah and Elisha in the Theological Geography of the Deuteronomistic History
Journal article by Joel S. Burnett; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 129, 2010
Subjects: Geography, Theology
...its beginning, which relates that King Ahaziah fell down from his upper chamber...going up." Similarly, Elijahs oracle to Ahaziah, which is stated (vv. 3-4) and then...you shall surely die!" Afterwards, Ahaziah sends an outfit of fifty troops with their...
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Pozo Moro, Child Sacrifice, and the Greek Legendary Tradition
Journal article by John S. Rundin; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 123, 2004
Subjects: Ancient civilizations, Children & youth, Rites & ceremonies, Spain
...dies from a wound in battle, and his son Ahaziah becomes king and continues his fathers...Elisha foments a revolution against Ahaziah by having Jehu annointed king of Israel...Jehus revolution is successful; he has Ahaziah killed in a skirmish (2 Kgs 9:27...
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Tables of Reign Lengths from the Hebrew Court Recorders
Journal article by Rodger C. Young; Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 48, 2005
...chronology. 2. Dates for Judah, Saul to Ahaziah (1051t to 842t). My "Solomon" paper...extended the problem into the reigns of Ahaziah and Athaliah. Since the death of Solomon...years of the kings of Judah, Solomon to Ahaziah. I do not expect much controversy over...
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newspaper articles on: Ahaziah  - 3 results

 
 
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The Coming of Elijah
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 11, 2009
...to them of John the Baptist.ReflecionElijah: The prophet Elijah the Tishbite who prophesied during the reigns of Ahab and Ahaziah of Israel appears as a prophet who insisted on the unique divinity of Yahweh and the repudiation of the cult of any other god...
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Jesus' Testimony to John
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 8, 2010
...ought to hear." He is Elijah, the one who is to come Elijah the Tishbite, who prophesied during the reigns of Ahab and Ahaziah of Israel, appears as a prophet who insisted on the unique divinity of Yahweh and the repudiation of the cult of any other...
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The Coming of Elijah; Matthew 17:10-13
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 10, 2005
...speaking to them of John the Baptist. The WORD The prophet Elijah the Tishbite who prophesied during the reigns of Ahab and Ahaziah of Israel appears as a prophet who insisted on the unique divinity of Yahweh and the repudiation of the cult of any other god...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ahaziah  - 9 results

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Ahaziah
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AHAZIAH ah zi , in the Bible. 1 King of Israel, son of Ahab. He was a worthy successor of his father only in that he followed Ahabs...
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Jehoahaz
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Jehoiakim, his brother, in his place. He is also called Shallum. 3 Mentioned in Second Chronicles, where Ahaziah is meant. See Ahaziah 2. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission...
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Jehoram
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of Israel (c.852 841 b.c.), brother and successor of Ahaziah 1. He enlisted the support of Jehoshaphat of Judah to put...family in the worship of Baal. He was succeeded by his son Ahaziah 2. ____________________ Copyright 2009...
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Athaliah
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ahab of Israel, wife of Jehoram 2 of Judah, and mother of Ahaziah 2 of Judah, whom she succeeded. She had the males of the...murdered, but her stepdaughter Jehosheba hid away a baby son of Ahaziah. Some years later, Jehosheba and her husband Jehoiada 1 effected...
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Jezebel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JEZEBEL jez bel, in the First Book of Kings, Phoenician princess who was the wife of King Ahab and the mother of Ahaziah, Jehoram, and Athaliah. She encouraged worship of Baal, including the worship of Asherah and persecuted the prophets of...
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