Bible Person
Meaning: inquirer; examiner; dull observer · Male · 2 cross references
Tirhakah is the Cushite-Egyptian king whose movement against Assyria becomes part of the crisis around Jerusalem in Hezekiah's reign. He appears in the geopolitical contest between empires at the edge of Judah's survival. First appears in 2 Kgs 19:9.1
AI summary: Tirhakah matters because his cross references place him within the international pressure that complicates Assyria's campaign against Judah. Though he is not the center of the biblical narrative, his approach helps reveal how Judah's fate is bound up with much larger imperial struggles. Taken together, the material presents Tirhakah as a foreign king whose presence underscores the global scale of Hezekiah's crisis.1
Central Figure
Tirhakah
Meaning: inquirer; examiner; dull observer
The last king of Egypt of the Ethiopian (the fifteenth) dynasty.
The last king of Egypt of the Ethiopian (the fifteenth) dynasty. He was the brother-in-law of So (q.v.). He probably ascended the throne about B.C. 692, having been previously king of Ethiopia (2 Kings 19:9; Isa. 37:9), which with Egypt now formed one nation. He was a great warrior, and but little is known of him. The Assyrian armies under Esarhaddon, and again under Assur-bani-pal, invaded Egypt and defeated Tirhakah, who afterwards retired into Ethiopia, where he died, after reigning twenty-six years. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
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.