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The King Uzziah Stricken with Leprosy, by Rembrandt, 1635.. Uzziah took the throne at age 16 [5] and reigned for about 52 years. His reign was "the most prosperous excepting that of Jehoshaphat since the time of Solomon."
The main source on the earthquake is a passage in Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus. It dates the earthquake to the time of the Battle of Actium (31 BC) between the forces of Octavian and Mark Antony. It also dates the earthquake to the 7th regnal year of Herod the Great (reigned 37–4 BC). According to Josephus, the earthquake brought ...
Wachs' and Levitte's discovery validates Jewish historian Flavius Josephus' account of an earthquake-caused landslide during King Uzziah's reign blocking up the kings' gardens in the valley. [8] It also accords with the LXX rendering of Zechariah 14:5, which states a valley will be blocked up as far as Azal.
This event was related to the one occurred when King Uzziah was stricken with leprosy for invading the priest's office, according to Josephus. [26] Josephus wrote that at a place near the city called Eroge, half part of the mountain towards the west was broken, rolled then stood half a mile towards the eastern part, up to the king's gardens.
"Fifty-two years": in Thiele's chronology Uzziah first reigned as a co-regent (while his father, Amaziah, was in exile) in September 791 BCE, [14] then became the 10th king of Judah between April and September 767 BCE then died between April and September 739 BCE. [15] [16] Only Manasseh has longer period of reign in the kingdom of Judah than ...
After describing a future earthquake and panic during the "Day of the Lord" at Messiah's coming to the Mount of Olives, Zechariah says, "Yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah" (Zechariah 14:5).
2 Kings 15 is the fifteenth chapter of the second part of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the Second Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE. [3]
The Septuagint (LXX) has a different reading of Zechariah 14:5 stating that a valley will be blocked up as it was blocked up during the earthquake during King Uzziah's reign. Jewish historian Flavius Josephus mentions in Antiquities of the Jews that the valley in the area of the King's Gardens was blocked up by landslide rubble during Uzziah's ...