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Tirhakah -
Tirhakah , king of Cush (
2 Kings 19:9 ,
Isaiah 37:9 ), marched out from Egypt against Sennacherib shortly before the mysterious destruction of the Assyrian army│(? b.
Tirhakah was the third of the Ethiopian (25th) Dyn.
Tirhakah was quite unable to resist the attacks of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal; even Thebes was sacked, but the Assyrians were equally unable to hold the country they bad won. The chronology of the reign is not clear:
Tirhakah was not king at the time of Sennacherib’s expedition, but he may have commanded the army opposing it
Tirhakah -
Tirhakah (tir'ha-kah), exalted? King of Ethiopia and upper Egypt.
Tirhakah reigned, probably, 28 years
So -
Tirhakah or Tehrak, the third and last of the dynasty, is thought to have put So to death. Smith's deciphering) married the sister of
Tirhakah who helped Hezekiah against Sennacherib; at Sabaku's death
Tirhakah succeeded, Sabaku's son being set aside
Tir'Hakah, - Possibly
Tirhakah ruled over Ethiopia before becoming king of Egypt
Tirhakah - 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
Esar-Haddon - He made war with the Philistines, and took Azoth, by Tartan, his general: he attacked Egypt, Cush, and Edom, Isaiah 20, 34; designing, probably, to avenge the affront Sennacherib his father had received from
Tirhakah, king of Cush, and the king of Egypt, who had been Hezekiah's confederates
Esarhaddon - Southward he claimed authority over Egypt and Ethiopia; having driven the Ethiopian
Tirhakah out of Egypt. , marching from Asshur (Kileh Sherghat) to Tyre, besieged Bahal its king who was in league with
Tirhakah, thence he marched to Aphek at the foot of Lebanon, then to Raphia S. Though distressed on the way by want of water, he at last drove
Tirhakah out of Egypt
Ethiopia - Ethiopia had sent her ambassadors to Jerusalem where they now were (
Isaiah 18:2),
Tirhakah their king shortly afterward being the ally whose diversion in that city's favor saved it from Sennacherib (
Isaiah 36:37). of Palestine, and
Tirhakah the Ethiopian who advanced toward Judah against Sennacherib, were doubtless rulers of Upper Egypt and Ethiopia combined.
Tirhakah's name is found only on a Theban temple, and his connection with Ethiopia is marked by several monuments there being ascribed to him.
Tirhakah was third of the 25th dynasty of Egypt, an Ethiopian dynasty
Pharaoh -
Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia and Egypt, in the time of Hezekiah, B. See
Tirhakah
Pharaoh -
Tirhakah is not entitled Pharaoh as in Egyptian documents, but is more accurately described as king of Cush (
2 Kings 19:9 ). In the time of Sennacherib and Hezekiah,
Tirhakah or some earlier king of the Ethiopian Dynasty would be on the throne
Tirhakah - 10:1-3) represent Sennacherib to have advanced to Pelusium; here
Tirhakah, the ally of Sethos, the king priest of Lower Egypt, and of Hezekiah, forced Sennacherib to retire, His acquisition of the throne of Egypt seems subsequent to his accession to the Ethiopian throne, and to the diversion which he made in favor of Hezekiah against Sennacherib
Cush - Within this period falls the attempt of
Tirhakah, king of Cush, to defeat Sennacherib of Assyria in Palestine (
2 Kings 19:9 )
Memphis - At a later period, Tahrak (Tirhakah) ruled at Memphis; Necho, Hophra, and the other kings of the 26th Dynasty were buried at their ancestral city Sais, although their government was centred in Memphis
Pharaoh - Some kings of Egypt are mentioned in scripture without this title, as Shishak, Necho, Hophra, So, and
Tirhakah, the last two of whom were Ethiopians
Ethiopia - The most influential of these Ethiopian pharaohs was Taharqa (biblical
Tirhakah), who rendered aid to Hezekiah of Judah during the Assyrian invasion of Sennacherib in 701 B
Alliances - Hezekiah was tempted to lean on Egypt against the Assyrian Sennacherib (
Isaiah 30:2), and
Tirhakah of Ethiopia did make a diversion in his favor (
2 Kings 19:9)
Egypt - The third of them was
Tirhakah (
2 Kings 19:9 ). 674 it was conquered by the Assyrians, who divided it into twenty satrapies, and
Tirhakah was driven back to his ancestral dominions
No - It records also
Tirhakah the Ethiopian's exploits
Egypt - ...
Another king of this dynasty was
Tirhakah or Taharka (the Tehrak of the monuments) who came into collision with Assyria in the 14th year of Hezekiah.
Tirhakah was afterwards defeated by Sennacherib and again at the conquest of Egypt by Esar-haddon
Chronology - The Apis tablets of Egypt prove the synchronism of Josiah and Pharaoh Necho; also they demonstrate that of Hezekiah and
Tirhakah
Egypt - Tehrak or
Tirhakah fought Sennacherib in support of Hezekiah
Kings, the Books of - The Egyptian king Psinaches' patronage of Hadad the Edomite (
1 Kings 11:19-20): Solomon's alliance with his successor Psusennes who reigned 35 years; Shishak's (Sesonchis I) accession toward the close of Solomon's reign (
1 Kings 11:40); his conquest of Judea under Rehoboam, represented on a monument still at Karnak which mentions "the king of Judah," the time of the Ethiopian dynasty of So (Sabak) and
Tirhakah, of the 25th dynasty; the rise and speedy fall of Syrian power, Assyria overshadowing it; the account of Mesha harmonizing with the (See DIBON stone; Assyria's struggles with Egypt and Babylon's' sudden supremacy under Nebuchadnezzar over both Assyria and Egypt: all these notices in Kings accord with independent pagan history and inscriptions
Hezekiah - See
Tirhakah'S coming forth to encounter Sennacherib created a diversion in favor of Judaea. In the former invasion Sennacherib in his first, expedition inflicted a decisive blow on the united forces of Egypt and Ethiopia at Altagu (possibly the Eltekon of
Joshua 15:59); but now he was forced to raise the siege of Pelusium by
Tirhakah, and send an imperious letter to Hezekiah by Rabshakeh, whose sneers at his religious reforms in removing the high places (
2 Kings 18:22-32) and flattering promises in fluent Hebrew to the people favor the idea that he was a renegade Jew
Egypt - Solomon married a Pharaoh's daughter;
Tirhakah helped Hezekiah; So made a treaty with Hoshea; Pharaoh Necho was unwilling to war with Josiah; and Pharaoh Hophra (Apries) raised the Chaldaean siege of Jerusalem as Zedekiah's ally
Egypt - Tahrak (Tirhakah) was particularly active in this endeavour, but as soon as Esarhaddon was free to invade Egypt the Assyrian king had no difficulty in taking Memphis, capturing most of the royal family, and driving Tahrak southward ( c