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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Tirhakah (King living at the time of Divided Monarchy)
The Kushite pharaoh of Egypt in the early seventh century BC, known in his own records as Taharqa. Word that he was marching against Assyria made Sennacherib send Hezekiah a threatening letter during the siege of Jerusalem.
The Kushite pharaoh of Egypt in the early seventh century BC, known in his own records as Taharqa. Word that he was marching against Assyria made Sennacherib send Hezekiah a threatening letter during the siege of Jerusalem.
Tirhakah, known in Egyptian and Kushite records as Taharqa, ruled Egypt and Kush as pharaoh of the twenty-fifth (Kushite) dynasty in the early seventh century BC. The Bible names him as the Kushite king whose advance against Assyria prompted Sennacherib to send a threatening message to Hezekiah during the siege of Jerusalem (2 Kings 19:9; Isaiah 37:9). Assyrian records confirm his historicity in detail: the annals and inscribed prisms of both Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal describe their invasions of Egypt and repeated defeats of Taharqa, who was eventually driven back into Nubia.
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- 2 Kings 19:9
- Isaiah 37:9
