Bible Person
Meaning: a measure for grain; vail · Male · 1 cross reference
So is the Egyptian or Cushite ruler appealed to by Hoshea in 2 Kings 17:4. He belongs to the geopolitical setting of Israel's last failed resistance to Assyria. First appears in 2 Kgs 17:4.1
AI summary: So matters because his single cross reference captures Israel's misplaced search for security in foreign alliances rather than covenant faithfulness. The entry helps frame the fall of Samaria within the larger politics of the ancient Near East. Taken together, the material presents So as a foreign ruler in Israel's final crisis.1
Central Figure
So
Meaning: a measure for grain; vail
(Nubian, Sabako), an Ethiopian king who brought Egypt under his sway.
(Nubian, Sabako), an Ethiopian king who brought Egypt under his sway. He was bribed by Hoshea to help him against the Assyrian monarch Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17:4). This was a return to the policy that had been successful in the reign of Jeroboam I. 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.)
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.