Bible Person
Meaning: overseer of the treasury · Male · 2 cross references
Sharezer is a son of Sennacherib who participates in the assassination of the Assyrian king and then flees. He appears in the aftermath of the Lord's judgment upon Assyria's arrogant ruler. First appears in 2 Kgs 19:37.1
AI summary: Sharezer matters because his cross references show the dramatic reversal of imperial pride: the king who defied the Lord is struck down in his own house by his own sons. The entry therefore belongs to the wider pattern of divine judgment overtaking great powers. Taken together, the material presents Sharezer as part of the family betrayal through which Assyria's vaunted king falls.1
Central Figure
Sharezer
Meaning: overseer of the treasury
(god) protect the king!, a son of Sennacherib, king of Assyria.
(god) protect the king!, a son of Sennacherib, king of Assyria. He and his brother Adrammelech murdered their father, and then fled into the land of Armenia (2 Kings 19:37). 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.