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Zechariah of Israel

King of the Kingdom of Israel; son of Jeroboam II

Summary

King of the Kingdom of Israel; son of Jeroboam II

Field	Value
name	Zechariah
image	Zechariah of Israel.png
caption	Portrait from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum (1553)
succession	King of Israel (Northern Kingdom)
reign	(reigned 6 months)
full name	Zechariah ben Jeroboam
birth_date
death_date	752 BC
death_place	Kingdom of Israel
burial_place
predecessor	Jeroboam II
successor	Shallum
father	Jeroboam II

Zechariah ( Zəḵaryā, meaning "remembered by Yah"; also Zachariah, Zacharias; ) was the fourteenth king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel, and son of Jeroboam II.

Zechariah became king of Israel in Samaria in the thirty-eighth year of Azariah, king of Judah. () William F. Albright has dated his reign to 746 BC – 745 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 753 BC – 752 BC.

The account of his reign is briefly told in 2 Kings (). According to the Bible, Zechariah did what was evil in the Lord's sight, as the previous kings of Israel since Jeroboam I had done. Zechariah ruled Israel for only six months before Shallum, a captain from his own army, murdered him and took the throne. This ended the dynasty of Jehu after four generations of his descendants, fulfilling the prophecy in .

References

Edwin Thiele, ''[[The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings]]'', (1st ed.; New York: Macmillan, 1951; 2d ed.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965; 3rd ed.; Grand Rapids: Zondervan/Kregel, 1983). {{ISBN. 0-8254-3825-X, 9780825438257

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