Jehoahaz of Judah

Jehoahaz
Portrait of Jehoahaz from Bartolomeo Gai's Epitome historico-chronologica (1751)
King of Judah
Reign609 BC
PredecessorJosiah
SuccessorJehoiakim
BornShallum
c. 633/632 BC
HouseHouse of David
FatherJosiah
MotherHamautal

Jehoahaz III of Judah (Hebrew: יְהוֹאָחָז, Yəhō’aḥaz, "Yahweh has held"; Greek: Ιωαχαζ Iōakhaz; Latin: Joachaz), also called Shallum,[1] was the seventeenth king of Judah (3 months in 609 BC) and the fourth son[2] of king Josiah whom he succeeded.[3] His mother was Hamautal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. He was born in 633/632 BC.[4]

  1. ^ 1 Chronicles 3:15
  2. ^ Hirsch, Emil G. and Ira Maurice Prie (1906). "Jehoahaz", Jewish Encyclopedia
  3. ^ Kautzsch, E. "Jehoahaz", The New Scaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol.IV, Samuel Macauley Jackson (ed.), Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1953)
  4. ^ Isaac Kalmi (1 February 1997). M. Patrick Graham; Kenneth G. Hoglund; Steven L. McKenzie (eds.). "Was the Chronicler a Historian?", The Chronicler as Historian. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 68–. ISBN 978-0-567-32754-3.

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