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Jehoash Tablet
The Jehoash Tablet, also called the Jehoash Inscription, is a stone tablet bearing a Hebrew inscription of King Jehoash describing First Temple repairs, widely considered a modern forgery.
Jehoiachin
Jehoiachin, also known as Jeconiah or Coniah, was a king of Judah who reigned three months in 598/597 BC, surrendered to Nebuchadnezzar II, and spent 37 years in Babylon.
Jehoiada
Jehoiada (Hebrew: Yehoyada) was the chief priest of the Temple in Jerusalem who organized the coup that overthrew Queen Athaliah and enthroned the boy king Joash of Judah.
Jehoiakim
Jehoiakim, born Eliakim and renamed by Pharaoh Necho II, was king of Judah from about 609 to 598 BC, serving Egypt and then Babylon before rebelling.
Jehoram of Israel
Jehoram, also known as Joram, was a 9th-century BC king of Israel, son of Ahab and Jezebel, who reigned about twelve years before Jehu killed him.
Jehoram of Judah
Jehoram of Judah, also called Joram, was a king of Judah who reigned eight years in the 9th century BC and married the Omride princess Athaliah.
Jehozadak
Jehozadak, also spelled Jozadak, is a priest of Judah in the Hebrew Bible, son of Seraiah and father of the high priest Joshua, exiled to Babylon.
Jehu dynasty
The Jehu dynasty, or House of Jehu, ruled the kingdom of Israel for over ninety years (841–747 BCE), the Northern Kingdom's longest dynasty, founded by Jehu's coup against the Omrides.
Jehu panel of the Black Obelisk
The Jehu panel is a relief scene on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III showing Jehu, king of Israel, presenting tribute in 841 BC, now in the British Museum.
Jehu's coup
Jehu's coup, also called the Revolt of Jehu, was the 841 BC military revolt in Israel in which Jehu seized the throne and ended the Omride dynasty.
Jehucal son of Shelemiah
Jehucal, also called Jucal, son of Shelemiah was a court official of King Zedekiah of Judah, named twice in the Book of Jeremiah around 588 BC.
Jerahmeel (king's son)
Jerahmeel (Hebrew ירחמאל), styled "the king's son," was an official of King Jehoiakim of Judah sent to arrest Jeremiah and Baruch, as told in Jeremiah 36:26.
Jeroboam's Revolt
Jeroboam's Revolt was the secession of the northern Israelite tribes from Rehoboam at his accession around 931 BC, ending the united monarchy and creating the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Joab
Joab, Hebrew יוֹאָב (Yoab), son of Zeruiah and nephew of David, was commander of King David's army around 1000 BC, capturing Jerusalem and later executed on Solomon's orders.
Joah (son of Asaph)
Joah, son of Asaph, was the royal recorder of Judah under King Hezekiah, named in 2 Kings 18 as meeting the Assyrian commander about 701 BC.
Joash of Judah
Joash of Judah, also called Jehoash, was a king of Judah who reigned forty years, dated 835–796 BC, and funded repairs of the Temple in Jerusalem.
Jobab ben Zerah
Jobab ben Zerah, also known as Jobab of Bozrah, is a legendary king of Edom in Genesis 36, second in the list of eight pre-Israelite kings.
Jotham
Jotham (Hebrew Yotam, also rendered Joatham) was a king of Judah in the eighth century BC, the son and successor of Uzziah and father of Ahaz, credited with building the Temple's upper gate.
Judah's revolts against Babylon
Judah's revolts against Babylon were the Kingdom of Judah's rebellions against the Neo-Babylonian Empire between 601 and 586 BC, ending with the fall of Jerusalem, the destruction of Solomon's Temple, and exile to Babylon.
Judean pillar figurine
The Judean pillar figurine, or Judahite pillar figurine, is a terracotta female figurine made in the kingdom of Judah from the eighth to the sixth century BC.
Kabir'il (king of Dedan)
Kabir'il (Dadanitic kbrʾl, Arabic كبر إل), son of Mata'il, was one of the few named kings of Dedan in north-west Arabia, conventionally placed in the 6th century BC and known only from Dadanitic inscriptions.
Kamani (king of Carchemish)
Kamani, also rendered Kamanis, was a Luwian-speaking king of Carchemish in the early 8th century BC, who succeeded as a child under the regent Yariri.
Kamanis inscription
The Kamanis inscription, also called the Kamanis stele, is a set of Hieroglyphic Luwian texts of Kamani, son of Astiruwa, a ruler of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Karkamiš around 790 BC.
Kamas-halta
Kamas-halta, whose name means "Kemosh is strength", was a king of Moab in the 7th century BC, known from Neo-Assyrian records including cylinder B of Ashurbanipal.
Kammanu
Kammanu was a Luwian-speaking Neo-Hittite kingdom of the Iron Age, centered on the royal city of Melid at Arslantepe near Malatya in eastern Turkey, until the Assyrian conquest of 712 BC.
Kammusu-nadbi
Kammusu-nadbi, also rendered Chemosh-nadab, was a king of Moab, the Iron Age kingdom east of the Dead Sea, who brought gifts to Sennacherib in 701 BC.
Kapara (king of Guzana)
Kapara, son of Hadianu, was an Aramaean king of Guzana at Tell Halaf in north-east Syria, builder of a famous basalt-relief palace in the 10th or 9th century BC.
Karatepe bilingual
The Karatepe bilingual, also known as the Karatepe-Aslantaş inscription, is a Phoenician–Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription of the official Azatiwada, carved at Karatepe in Cilicia in the late 8th century BC and pivotal to deciphering Hieroglyphic Luwian.
Katuwa of Carchemish
Katuwa, also read Katuwas, was a ruler of Carchemish around 925 BC of the House of Suhi, known chiefly from long Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions recording his buildings.
Kerak Inscription
The Kerak Inscription, also called the El-Kerak Inscription, is a three-line Moabite-language inscription on polished basalt found at Kerak, Jordan, in 1958 and dated to the late 9th century BC.