Bible Person
Meaning: near the Lord · Male · 2 cross references
Azaliah is remembered as the father of Shaphan, the royal scribe active in Josiah's reform. He belongs to the court-family background behind one of Judah's most important renewal moments. First appears in 2 Kgs 22:3.1
AI summary: Azaliah matters because the cross references place his house behind Shaphan, a central figure in the rediscovery and handling of the book of the law under Josiah. Though Azaliah himself remains in the background, his line is tied to one of the most consequential reform episodes in Judah's history. Taken together, the material presents Azaliah as the paternal source of a court household closely linked to covenant renewal.1
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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.