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• Nadab (King of Israel)People

  Nadab was the son of Jeroboam, the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel. He succeeded his father and reigned for two years before being assassinated in a revolt led by Baasha. His death brought the dynasty of Jeroboam to an end.

• JehoahazPeople

  Jehoahaz was the eleventh king of the northern kingdom of Israel and the son of Jehu. According to 2 Kings 13, he suffered long oppression at the hands of Hazael king of Aram and then sought the LORD. A king of Judah also bore the same name.

• JehoshabeathPeople

  Jehoshabeath was the daughter of King Jehoram of Judah and the wife of the priest Jehoiada. When Athaliah massacred the royal family, she hid the young Joash and so preserved the line of the house of David. In 2 Kings she appears under the name Jehosheba.

• GihonBible

  Gihon is the name of two places in the Bible: in Genesis it is the second of the four rivers that branched off from the river flowing out of the Garden of Eden, and in Kings and Chronicles it is a spring beside the City of David in Jerusalem.

• ShimeiPeople

  Shimei was an Old Testament figure from the tribe of Benjamin and a member of Saul's house. He cursed David as the king fled during Absalom's rebellion, later sought his forgiveness, and was executed under Solomon for breaking his oath.

• AmittaiPeople

  Amittai was the father of the prophet Jonah. He is mentioned by name only twice in the Old Testament, in 2 Kings 14:25 and Jonah 1:1.

• HezionPeople

  Hezion is a king of Aram named only in 1 Kings 15:18, where he appears as the father of Tabrimon and the grandfather of Ben-hadad, king of Syria.

• Kir-haresethBible

  Kir-hareseth was a city in the land of Moab, east of the Dead Sea. In 2 Kings 3 it is where King Mesha of Moab made his last stand against the allied forces of Israel, Judah, and Edom. The city also appears in the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah concerning Moab.

• MeshullamPeople

  Meshullam is a man in Nehemiah 3 of the Old Testament who took part in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Several other people with the same name appear in 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah.

• ShalmaneserPeople

  Shalmaneser was an Assyrian king of the late eighth century BC who, according to 2 Kings, received tribute from Hoshea, the last king of the northern kingdom of Israel, and besieged Samaria.

• NebuzaradanPeople

  Nebuzaradan was the captain of the guard under Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. At the fall of Judah he burned the temple and the city of Jerusalem and carried the people into captivity, and he released the prophet Jeremiah.

• TirhakahPeople

  Tirhakah was a king of Cush (the Nubian region of the upper Nile) mentioned in 2 Kings 19 and Isaiah 37. He appears only in a report that he had come out to fight against Assyria when the Assyrian king Sennacherib attacked Judah.

• Zechariah (King of Israel)People

  Zechariah was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel and the son of Jeroboam II. He reigned for six months before he was assassinated by Shallum, and his death brought the dynasty of Jehu to an end.

• Josiah's ReformBible

  Josiah's Reform was the religious reform in which Josiah, king of Judah, renewed the covenant and removed idolatry after the Book of the Law was found in the temple. It is recorded in 2 Kings 22–23 and 2 Chronicles 34–35.

• SeraiahPeople

  Seraiah was a high priest in the final years of the Kingdom of Judah who was executed by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, after the fall of Jerusalem. He is recorded as the father of Jehozadak (Jozadak) and as an ancestor of Ezra.

• BathshebaPeople

  Bathsheba is a woman in the Old Testament books of 2 Samuel and 1 Kings. Originally the wife of Uriah the Hittite, she later became the wife of David and was the mother of Solomon.

• Jonah (Prophet)People

  Jonah was an Israelite prophet and the central figure of the Old Testament Book of Jonah. He is known for fleeing from God's command, spending three days in the belly of a great fish, and then going to Nineveh to call its people to repentance.

• Hosea (Prophet)People

  Hosea was a prophet active in the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC and is the central figure of the biblical Book of Hosea. The account of his marriage to his unfaithful wife Gomer, whom he continued to love, is read as a symbol of the relationship between God and Israel.

• Jeroboam IIPeople

  Jeroboam II was the fourth king of the Jehu dynasty in the northern kingdom of Israel and the son of Joash. He recovered much lost territory and presided over a period of prosperity, but the contemporary prophets Amos and Hosea condemned the injustice and false worship that lay beneath that prosperity.

• ShaphanPeople

  Shaphan was a scribe in the reign of King Josiah of Judah. He read before the king the Book of the Law found during the repair of the Temple and thus played a part in the events that set Josiah's religious reform in motion.