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The best known Biblical figure bearing the name Zephaniah is the son of Cushi, and great-great grandson of King [5] Hezekiah, ninth in the literary order of the Twelve Minor Prophets. He prophesied in the days of Josiah , ruler of the Kingdom of Judah (640–609 BCE), but before Josiah's reform in 621 BCE, [ 1 ] and was contemporary with ...
The Leningrad Codex (AD. 1008) contains the complete text of the Book of Zephaniah in Hebrew.. The Book of Zephaniah / ˌ z ɛ f ə ˈ n aɪ. ə / (Hebrew: צְפַנְיָה, Ṣəfanyā; sometimes Latinized as Sophonias) is the ninth of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament and Tanakh, preceded in all traditions by the Book of Habakkuk and followed by the Book of Haggai.
According to the Bible, Hezekiah was the son of king Ahaz and Abijah (also called Abi), [7] daughter of the high priest Zechariah. Hezekiah married Hephzibah [16] and died from natural causes at the age of 54 around 687 BCE and was succeeded by his son Manasseh. [17] [better source needed]
See also References A Abagtha See also: Abagtha Abagtha (Hebrew אֲבַגְתָא) was a court official or eunuch of king Ahasuerus who was commanded along with 6 other officials to parade queen Vashti to go before the king. (Esther 1:10) Abda See also: Abda (biblical figure) The name Abda (Hebrew עַבְדָּא) means servant, or perhaps is an abbreviated form of servant of YHWH. There are ...
Hezekiah's story is one of the best to cross-reference with the rest of the Mid Eastern world's historical documents. In 2015 in a dig at the Ophel in Jerusalem, Eilat Mazar discovered a royal bulla of Hezekiah, that reads "Belonging to Hezekiah [son of] Ahaz king of Judah", and dates to between 727 - 698 BC.
The grandson of Hezekiah ben David through his eldest son David ben Chyzkia, Hiyya al-Daudi, died in 1154 in Castile according to Abraham ibn Daud and is the ancestor of the ibn Yahya family. Several families, as late as the 14th century, traced their descent back to Josiah, the brother of David ben Zakkai who had been banished to Chorasan (see ...
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom—2022 marks 70 years since her ascension to the throne. Next in line on the royal family tree is Prince Charles, her son ...
Manasseh was the first king of Judah who was not contemporary with the northern kingdom of Israel, which the Assyrians had destroyed c. 720 BC, deporting much of its population. He re-instituted polytheistic worship and reversed the religious changes made by his father Hezekiah – hence his condemnation in several biblical verses. [2]