29 others in the registry answer to the name Zechariah. Every Zechariah in the Bible
- verses
- 3
- first named
- 2 Kings 14:29
- last named
- 2 Kings 15:11
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Israel
Description
Who was Zechariah?
Zechariah was the son of Jeroboam II and the last king of the northern kingdom of Israel. He ascended to the throne after the death of his father, who had reigned for forty-one years. However, Zechariah's reign was short-lived, lasting only six months.
During his brief reign, Zechariah did evil in the sight of the Lord, following in the footsteps of his predecessors. He continued the idolatrous practices that had plagued the northern kingdom since its inception.
Zechariah's reign came to a violent end when he was conspired against and assassinated by Shallum, son of Jabesh. This assassination fulfilled the prophecy given to Jehu, stating that his descendants would sit on the throne of Israel for four generations.
The death of Zechariah marked the end of the dynasty of Jehu and the beginning of a period of political instability in the northern kingdom. Shallum, who had killed Zechariah, assumed the throne but was himself assassinated just one month later. This turmoil and the lack of a stable leadership contributed to the eventual downfall and captivity of the northern kingdom at the hands of the Assyrians.
Relations
Direct connections
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Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Zechariah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
3 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Kings (3).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
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Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
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