Bible Person
Male · 1 cross reference
This Rabsaris entry refers to the Assyrian chief official sent by Sennacherib in 2 Kings 18:17, not to the Babylonian usage of the title in Jeremiah 39. It represents an office-holder rather than a personal name in the usual sense. First appears in 2 Kgs 18:17.1
AI summary: This Rabsaris matters because the single cross reference places a named high office within the threatening embassy against Jerusalem. The entry helps show how imperial power confronted Judah through intimidating public speech and court hierarchy. Taken together, the material presents Rabsaris as a chief official in Assyria's challenge to Hezekiah.1
Central Figure
Rabsaris
Chief of the Heads, one of the three officers whom Sennacherib sent from Lachish with a threatening message to Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:17; Jer.
Chief of the Heads, one of the three officers whom Sennacherib sent from Lachish with a threatening message to Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:17; Jer. 39:3, 13). 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
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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.