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Ahaziah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

AHAZIAH a-ha-zi'-a ('achazyah and 'achazyahu, "Yah holds, or sustains"): I. Ahaziah. Son of Ahab and Jezebel, eighth king of Israel (1 Ki 22:51 through 2 Ki 1:18). 1. His Reign: Ahaziah became king over Israel in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and he reigned two years, 854- 853 BC. There is, here an incongruity between the ...

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Ahaziah Scripture - 2 Kings 14:13

And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits....

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Ahiezer in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

a-hi-e'-zer ('achi`ezer, "brother is help"): (1) A son of Ammishaddai, a Danite prince, who acted as representative of his tribe on several occasions. (See Nu 1:12; 2:25; 7:66,71; 10:25.) (2) One of the mighty men or warriors, who joined David at Ziklag when a furtive before Saul (1 Ch 12:3)....

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Ahiezer Scripture - Numbers 10:25

And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, [which was] the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host [was] Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai....

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Ahikam in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(a brother who raises up), son of Shaphan the scribe, an influential officer at the court of Josiah, was one of the delegates sent by Hilkaih to consult Huldah. 2Ki 22:12-14 In the reign of Jehoiakim he successfully used his influence to protect the prophet Jeremiah. Jer 26:24 He was the father of Gedaliah. [GEDALIAH] (B.C. 641)....

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Ahasuerus Scripture - Esther 3:7

In the first month, that [is], the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that [is], the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, [to] the twelfth [month], that [is], the month Adar....

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Ahaz in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Ahaz ("possessor".) Son of Jotham; ascended the throne of Judah in his 20th year (2 Kings 16:2), a transcriber's error for 25th year; as read in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic (2 Chronicles 28:1); for otherwise Hezekiah his son would be born when Ahaz was 11 years old. Rezin, king of Damascus, and Pekah of Israel leagued against Judah, to ...

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Ahaziah in Naves Topical Bible

1. King of Judah. Called AZARIAH and JEHOAHAZ 2Ch 21:17; 25:23 History of 2Ki 8:25-29; 9:16-29 Gifts of, to the temple 2Ki 12:18 Brethren of, slain 2Ki 10:13,14 Succeeded by Athaliah 2Ch 22:10-12 -2. King of Israel History of 1Ki 22:40,49,51-53; 2Ch 20:35-37; 2Ki 1 Succeeded by Jehoram 2Ki 3:1...

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