Bible Location
Meaning: pavement; burning coal · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Rezeph was a fortress or city in the Aramean-Mesopotamian world conquered by Assyria. It is important because it appears in the Assyrian taunt against Judah. First appears in 2 Kgs 19:12.1
AI summary: Rezeph matters because the Assyrian spokesman uses defeated cities to argue that Jerusalem will fare no better. The place therefore becomes part of the rhetoric of intimidation that sets the stage for God's deliverance. The cross references present Rezeph as a conquered eastern fortress invoked in imperial boasting.1
Solid; a stone, (2 Kings 19:12; Isa. 37:12), a fortress near Haran, probably on the west of the Euphrates, conquered by Sennacherib. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.