“NECO THE KING OF EGYPT AND JEHOAHAZ”
After Josiah the king of Judah was killed in the battle of Carchemish, his son Jehoahaz succeeded in his father’s throne and became the next king of Judah. He was twenty three years old when he began to reign as king and he reigned three months in Jerusalem, and he was evil before the Lord and God used the same Egyptian king Neco who killed his father to put Jehoahaz down from the throne which he inherited from his father at Jerusalem. It was at these time Neco the king of Egypt put the land of Judah under tribute for a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. King Neco of Egypt then band king Jehoahaz of Judah and took him to Egypt where he was held captive until his death and made his brother Eliakim the next king of Judah (2 chronicles 36:1-4; 2 kings 23:31-36).
“NECO THE KING OF EGYPT AND ELIAKIM
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For Jehoiakim the king of Judah to meet up with the demands of Egypt, he turned to his people and extracted or exacted the silver and gold from the people of Judah as he taxed the Jews heavily and gave the wealth of his people black to the Ethiopian Pharaoh of Egypt, Neco. Jehoiakim reigned for eleven years and was under Neco throughout his regime and paid tribute to the king of African-Egyptian for eleven years of his reign; before the Lord brought down the king of Judah because of his evil, and sold him and his people into the hands of the Babylonian king who invaded and took over Judah. When the land of Judah got conquered and taken over by Babylon, the people of Judah were forced to stop giving their tribute to king Neco of Egypt, instead their tribute was paid to the king of Babylon (2 kings 23:34-36; 24:1-2, 7; 2 chronicles
Though Darius died in the year after the revolt, Xerxes repressed the Egypt revolt in 486BC “year after Darius’ death, he sent an army against the Egyptian rebels and decisively crushed them” (Herodotus). Although this caused Xerxes to become unpopular in Egypt, the Egyptians were submissive and displayed loyalty to Xerxes “twenty-five years of tranquillity followed… Egyptians were submissive subjects of the Persian crown, and even showed remarkable courage and skill in the Persian military expeditions” (George Rawlinson). However, Xerxes had to punish Babylon revolted twice. This indicated to historians that the Xerxes wasn’t successful in punishing the Babylonians the first time they revolted. Babylon has been severely punished “Babylon had revolted and that the satrap Zopyrus had been killed… Babylon was terribly punished. The splendid city fortifications… were demolished... Esagila with its towering ziggurat was torn down, as were the other temples… statue of Bel Marduk… of solid gold, was carried off and melted down… priest of Esagila who protested the sacrilege was killed… estates of the merchant princes and citizens were confiscated and granted to Persians… Syria was detached from Babylon and made a fully independent satrapy. Babylonia itself lost its identity through incorporation with Assyria and was henceforth ferociously taxed"
William Clark was ½ of the genius team that made their way through miles of unknown land, unknown nature, unknown natives, and came home with all but one voyager, who was killed of natural causes. William Clark and Meriwether Lewis were the first Americans to try and map the Louisiana Purchase area, and not only did they map it, they discovered allies, new plants and animals, and discovered new land and water routes that could be useful for future travelers.
The king, obviously, did not prophet too entirely much from dying. However, his sons too, really didn't gain anything out of the whole ordeal. Foremost, they lost their father, but also they had to leave their kingdom because they were afraid that they might be next in line to be slain. Furthermore, by fleeing they made themselves look guilty of killing their father to get to the throne quicker.
People believed that from that encounter that he took over the kingdom and then became a ruler of a different kingdom.
After conquering northern Israel in 722 B.C.E., the Assyrians engendered centuries of political intrigue and laid the foundation for future unscrupulous kingdoms and idolatrous people.1 Once the Babylonian empire overthrew Josiah, the King of Judah, Habakkuk began to compose a prophetic book, questioning the ways of God. Above all, Habakkuk could not comprehend why “the evil circumvented the just”2; he thought that the impiety of the world did not correlate with a supposedly just God.3 Throughout his narrative, this biblical prophet came to understand that “the just man, because of his faith, shall live” (Hb 2,4). Eventually discovering that righteousness and faith in God lead to justice, Habakkuk cried out to the people of Judah through his prophetic words, assuring that divine intervention would eradicate the wickedness and oppression.
Line of duty death are terrible but they can be prevented by following the right procedure. Kyle Dinkheller was sheriff who made a couple mistakes which cost him his life. First he let the suspect get out of his car before the deputy ask him to. Second, he let the suspect feel like he was in charged in the traffic stop. Third, he let the suspect return to his vehicle after he was being uncooperative. Lastly, Dinkheller should more training with his weapon.
though he was king he had to convince people that he was the true and
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noble birth and he had a lot of responsibility in his kingdom. He is looked up to by most for leadership and guidance.
...ent as ruler. He let his people suffer, and fall because of this. “As for Egypt, it lay sore with wounds, bleeding under the weight of our blunders. (Akhenaten 129)”
In First Samuel chapter eight the Israelites request a king to reign over them. God appoints a man who’s name is Saul. He first appears as a typical young man who belongs to the small tribe of Benjamin. When he is appointed king he is somewhat intimidated by his new task. However, over time he experiences a series of events that make him a selfish, envious, and a power hungry ruler, and eventually insane. This development in his character starts from his son Jonathan’s disobedience to his orders, but its main source is his jealousy of David’s successfulness on the battlefield, and his failed attempts at killing David.
Judah’s downfall began in 609 B.C. when Pharaoh Necho II led his army through Judah on his way to assist the Assyrians in battle against the Babylonians. Necho sent word all he intended to do was pass through Judah. King Josiah (640-609 B.C.) ruler of Judah decided to attack Necho’s army on the plain of Megiddo. The Egyptians defeated Josiah’s troops and King Josiah was killed as a result of the battle. Josiah’s son Jehoahaz became King upon his father’s death, he did not remain in power long and was replaced by Jehoiakim a pro-Egyptian leader. Jehoiakim was a loyal ally to the Egyptians and formed an alliance between Judah and Egypt in 609 B.C. Judah failed to realize the shift in power four years later when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon defeated the Egyptian army in the Battle of Carchemish. Judah surrender to the Babylonians in 603 B.C., after seeing the total destruction of Ashkelon a year earlier. In 601 B.C. Judah revolted against Babylonian rule after seeing the Egyptian army defeat the Babylonian army. King Nebuchadnezzar retaliated against Judah in the winter of 586 B.C. Judah surrenders in order to save Jerusalem from destruction and to avoid the status of a conquered army. Nebuchadnezzar deported 10,000 inhabitants to Babylon, and levied heavy tribute on the people. In 594 B.C. King Zedekiah of Judah attempted to form a league against Babylon, made up of the small states that form modern Jordan, Israel and coastal Lebanon. The states were so small and weak they posed no threat to Nebuchadnezzar. In 589/8 B.C. Judah was once again left to fight the mighty Babylonians alone. Judah held out against the Babylonians for a year and a half. The fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. signaled the end of Judah.
Solomon used Benaiah to end the lives of nearly all threats to his power. With the exception of Abiathar who was the Levitical priest who served David during his reign. Solomon though had him removed because he would likely have taught people that the temple wasn’t needed. However Solomon wanted it as his great desire was to design the political structure of his society after Egypt. Joab died on the altar as a pseudo human sacrifice. Shimei died because he went after his servants to Gath, but he actually never violated the agreement made with Solomon. The government of Israel’s new regime was literally being defined by violence and deception. It was a highly structured model based on the an identical structure in Egypt. Although Solomon is
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...n 1163 B.C., Egypt entered a period of slow decline (Scarre 1997:116). Pharaohs became less powerful, and their prestige dwindled. Hungry soldiers were terrorizing the community, while tomb robbers were raiding the pyramids for resources that were very much needed. They had buried their pharaohs with food, goods and jewelry, all of which were needed to keep the civilization in tact. They had built too many pyramids, and there were setbacks in Asia which corrupted trade. People did not understand why the pharaohs could not fix the problems that were going on. They viewed them as gods and lost trust and faith. Egypt fell apart as these things culminated with loss of belief in the pharaohs.