-Ahaziah:
Called.Ahaziah.in
2Kings
8:25,26 and
2Chronicles
22:1,2,7-9.
Also incorrectly
called.Azariah.in
2Chronicles
22:6 and 2Kings 15:1-7 and
called.Jehoahaz.in
2Chronicles
21:17 and
25:22,23.
Ahazizh was youngest son
of Jehoram, king of Judah:.2Kings
8:25,26 "In the twelfth year.(11th
to 12th:.2Kings
9:29).of
Joram.(also
called Jehoram).the
son of Ahab
king of.Israel.did
Ahaziah the son of Jehoram
king of.Judah.begin
to reign. Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign and
he reigned one year in Jerusalem.(the
capital of.Judah.from
where he reigned over all Judah). And
his mother's name was Athaliah,
the daughter of Omri
king of.Israel."
2Kings
15:1 "In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam
II king of.Israel.began.Azariah.son
of Amaziah
king of.Judah.to
reign. "
2Chronicles
22:1-4 "And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest,
son king in his stead, for the band of men that came with the Arabians
to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram
king of Judah reigned. Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began
to reign and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was
Athaliah the daughter of Omri. He also walked in the ways of the house
of Ahab, for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly. Wherefore he
did evil in the sight of the Lord like the house of Ahab, for they were
his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction."
Note that the scripture says
in error.(no
thanks to the translators), that he
was forty-two years of age when he ascended the throne. See at:.2Chronicles
22:2.
The name.Jehoahaz.was
given to Ahaziah once he became king of Judah:.2Chronicles
21:17. The name Jehoahaz means 'God his sustainer' or 'he whom God
holds'. He succeeded his father Jehoram/Joram king of Judah in B.C.E.
881 and reigned only one year at Jerusalem.
Ahaziah was 6th king of Judah
and the son of Jehoram.(also
called Joram).and
the evil woman Athaliah. Guided by his idolatrous
mother Athaliah, his reign was disastrous:.2Kings
8:24-29. Ahaziah followed the evil ways of the house of Ahab
of Israel, to which he was allied
through his mother Athaliah.
Ahaziah's son was Jehoash/Joash:.2Kings
13:1 "... Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah..." 1Chronicles
3:10,11 "And
Solomon's
son was Rehoboam,
Abia his son.(this
Abia was not king), Asa
his son, Jehoshaphat
his son, Joram
his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash
his son."
Ahaziah was nephew of the
other
Ahaziah,
a king of.Israel.
This Ahaziah in.Israel.being
the son of Ahab,
who was king of Israel at the time of Ahaziah's birth. And, this Ahaziah's
mother was the horribly evil bitch Jezebel.
Ahaziah, the.Judah.one,
was at first
viceroy
during his father's sickness, then became king of Judah.
He later joined his uncle
Jehoram/Joram,
king of.Israel,
in an expedition at Ramothgilead against Hazael,
king of Damascus.(map),
but was wounded at the pass of Gur when attempting to escape and had strength
only to reach Megiddo, where he died:.2Kings
9:22-28. Ahaziah met his death at the hand of Jehu,
while in company with Jehoram/Joram of Israel, the son of Ahab.
Jehu
allowed the attendants of Ahaziah of Judah to bury him in an honorable
manner and in a sepulchre
with his fathers in the city of
David,."because,
said they, he is the son.(actually
he was.grandson,
which, however,
is still
a son by forefather;
here as in Matthew 1:1 and 2Chronicles
22:9, the.Bible.in
addition to talking of a direct son, can talk of a son by lineage;."In
proper names".says
Furst, "those of cognate
senses were often interchanged").of
Jehoshaphat.(Jehoshaphat
king of Judah), who sought the Lord
with all his heart..."....2Chronicles
22:9.
Ahaziah of Judah didn't have
much of a chance coming from the family he came from:.2Chronicles
22:2-4.
-Ahijah: A
prophet of Shiloh:.1Kings
11:29,30; 14:2. He was called
the 'Shilonite' as his residence was in Shilo.
He was a prophet in the days of Jeroboam
I of Israel and Rehoboam
of Judah. Jeroboam I bears testimony to the high esteem
in which he was held as a prophet
of God:.1Kings
14:2,3.
On record are two of Ahijah's remarkable
prophecies; one being
announcing the rending
of the ten tribes from Solomon:.1Kings
11:31-39.
The other being a message delivered to Jeroboam
I's wife.(1Kings
14:7-12), foretelling the death
of Abijah
her son.
The message from God through Ahijah also covered
the destruction of Jeroboam I's house, meaning no more descendants,
and also talked of the captivity of Israel:.1Kings
14:14-16.
-Apollos:
Comprised from Bible
Dictionaries. Apollos was a Jew of Alexandria, a learned and eloquent
man, who through the Scriptures
and the ministry of John the
Baptist became a Christian.
Apollos knew only the water baptism of John the
Baptist. He did not yet know that what John had foretold:.Matthew
3:11. Aquila and Priscilla updated his knowledge when he was at Ephesus:.Acts
18:24-28.
Apollos visited Ephesus.(map
1,
2).about
54 A.D. and preached
with great power and success, especially among those of the tribe
of Judah:.Acts
19:1; 1Corinthians 3:6.
His character was not unlike that of Paul, as
they were equally grieved at the dissension
of the Corinthians and at those personal partialities.(1Corinthians
1:12; 3:4).which
led many away from Christ:.1Corinthians
3:4-22; 16:12.
His prior
deep knowledge of the Old
Testament gave him special affinity
and respect
with those of Judah:.Acts
18:28.
Barnes
Notes: Apollos was one of Judah, born at Alexandria, a man well
versed in the Scriptures and eloquent:.Acts
18:24. He came to Ephesus
in about 49 A.D.
where he spoke boldly in the synagogue:.Acts
18:26. Apollos did not know as yet who the Messiah
was. Aquila and Priscilla instructed
him more perfectly in the way of God, that is, in the knowledge of Christ.
Apollos then proceeded to the Greek city of Corinth, where he met Paul:.Acts
18:27; 19:1. He was there very
useful in watering the good seed Paul had sown.(1Corinthians
1:12).and in gaining many to Christ.
His disciples were much attached to him:.1Corinthians
3:4-22. He was with Paul at Ephesus when he wrote the First Epistle
to the Corinthians and Paul makes kindly reference to him in his letter
to Titus:.Titus
3:13.
-Ashurbanipal,
king of Assyria B.C.E. 669-626;
also spelt Assurbanipal,
the Greek spelling of which is Sardanapalos.
In the Bible he is
called.Asnapper,
the great and noble:.Ezra
4:10 "And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar
brought over and set in the cities of Samaria
and the rest that are on this side the river and at such a time."
Asnapper was luxurious, ambitious
and cruel, but a magnificent patron of literature. He formed at Nineveh
a library of clay tablets, numbering about 10,000. This library consists
of about ten thousand flat bricks or tablets all written over with Assyrian
characters. They contain a record of the history, the laws and the religion
of Assyria and of the greatest value, strange clay leaves found in the
royal library form the most valuable of all the treasuries of the literature
of the old world. The earliest known dictionaries were found in the library
of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal at Nineveh.
The library also contains old Accadian
documents, which are the oldest extant
documents in the world, dating as far back as probably about the time of
Abraham.
These are now mostly in the
British Museum. They throw much light on the history and antiquities
of Assyria. Assur-bani-pal
was a munificent.patron
of literature
and the conqueror
of Elam.
Towards the middle of his reign his empire was shaken by a great rebellion
headed by his brother in Babylon.
The rebellion was finally put down, but Egypt was lost and the military
power of Assyria was so exhausted that it couldn't with difficulty resist
the hordes of Kimmerians who poured over Western Asia.