Jehoahaz (meaning "God has held") was the name of several people mentioned in the Tanakh. #Jehoahaz of Israel, king of Israel #Jehoahaz of Judah, king of Judah #The youngest son of Jehoram, king of Judah (2 Chronicles 21:17; 22:1, 6, 8, 9), more commonly known as Ahaziah. #The full name of Ahaz of Judah, by which he is mentioned in the annals of Tiglath-Pileser III

Hezekiah was the 13th king of independent Judah and the son of King Ahaz and Abijah (2 Chronicles 29:1), who was a daughter of a man (who was not the prophet) named Zechariah. (Abijah was also known as Abi (2 Kings 18:1-2).) He reigned twenty-nine years (2 Kings 18:2). He is also one of the kings mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 715 BCE-687 BCE, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 716 BCE-687 BCE.

Josiah or Yoshiyahu was king of Judah, and son of Amon and Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. His grandfather was King Manasseh, who had turned from the Jewish religion, even adapting the Temple for worship that was considered idolatrous by faithful Jews. Josiah is credited by some historians with having established Jewish scripture in written form as a part of the Deuteronomic reform that occurred during his rule.

Manasseh of Judah was the king of Judah and only son and successor of Hezekiah. He was twelve years old when he began to reign (2 Kings 21:1). William F. Albright has dated his reign to 687 BC-642 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 687 BC-643 BC. Though he reigned so long, comparatively little is known of this king. He reversed the reforms of his father Hezekiah, reinstating pagan worship in the Jerusalem temple, …

Iddo (עדו also עידו) was a minor biblical prophet, who appears to have lived during the reigns of King Solomon and his heirs, Rehoboam and Abijah in the Kingdom of Judah. Though little is known about him, and he appears only in the Books of Chronicles, Iddo seems to have been rather prolific in his day, with his prophecies concerning the rival King Jeroboam I of Israel recorded in a lost book of visions (see Chronicles II 9:29).

Doctor John Richardson was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1615 until his death. He was first made a Fellow of Emmanuel College, and then Master of Peterhouse before accepting the same position at Trinity, where he was also Regius Professor of Divinity, and served in 1617 and 1618 as Vice-Chancellor of the University. Richardson was a skilled linguist, and he served in the "First Cambridge Company, …

Ykhanya (meaning "God will fortify (his people)", "see Theophory in the Bible"; Greek: ιεχονιας, ; trad. English: "Jeconiah, Coniah, Jechonia"), also known as Yhoyakhin (trad. English: "Jehoiachin"), was king of Judah, the son of King Jehoiakim and Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. He was a contemporary of the Prophet Jeremiah.

Huldah was a prophetess mentioned briefly in II Kings, Chapter 22, and Books of Chronicles 2, Chapter 34. She is approached by Hilkiah together with Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan and Asaiah to give the Lord`s opinion after a book of the Law is rediscovered. She was the wife of Shallum, son of Tokhath (also called Tikvah), son of Harhas (also called Hasrah), keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.

Henry Preserved Smith (October 23, 1847 - 1927), United States Biblical scholar, was born in Troy, Ohio. He graduated at Amherst College in 1869 and studied theology in Lane Theological Seminary in 1869-1872, in Berlin in 1872-1874 and in Leipzig in 1876-1877. He was instructor in church history in 1874-1875, and in Hebrew in 1875-1876, and was assistant-professor in 1877-1879 and professor in 1879-1893 of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis in Lane Theological Seminary.

Joab (יוֹאָב "The LORD is father", Standard Hebrew Yoʾav, Tiberian Hebrew Yôʾāḇ) was the nephew of King David, the son of Zeruiah in the Bible. He was made the captain of David's army (2 Samuel 8:16; 20:23; 1 Chronicles 11:6; 18:15; 27:34). He had two brothers, Abishai and Asahel. Asahel was killed by Abner, for which Joab took revenge by treacherously murdering Abner (2 Samuel 2:13-32; 3:27).

Elkanah was, according to the Books of Samuel, the husband of Hannah, and the father of her children including her first - either Samuel or Saul depending on whether it is those who take the Bible at face value or textual scholars (respectively) that are to be trusted. Elkanah is a bigamist, his other wife, less favoured but bearing more children, was named "Peninnah". The names of Elkanah's other children apart from Samuel/Saul are not given.

Amoz was the father of the prophet Isaiah, mentioned in Isaiah 1:1 and 2:1, and in II Kings 19:2, 20; 20:1. Nothing else is known for certain about him. There is a Talmudic tradition that when the name of a prophet's father is given, the father was also a prophet, so that Amoz would have been a prophet like his son. Though it is mentioned frequently as the patronymic title of Isaiah, the name Amoz appears nowhere else in the Bible.

John Rogers (c. 1500-4 February 1555) was a minister, Bible translator and commentator, and the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England. He was born in the parish of Aston, near Birmingham, and was educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge University, where he graduated B.A. in 1526. In 1532, he was rector of Holy Trinity, Queenhithe, London, and in 1534, he went to Antwerp as chaplain to the English merchants of the Company of the Merchant Adventurers.

David Kimhi (Hebrew: דוד קמחי, also Kimchi or Qimchi, also known by the Hebrew acronym as the RaDaK (רד"ק), was a medieval rabbi, biblical commentator, philosopher, and grammarian. Born in Narbonne, Provence, he was the son of Rabbi Joseph Kimchi and the brother of Rabbi Moses Kimchi, both biblical commentators and grammarians.

In the Bible and in legend, Nimrod, son of Cush, grandson of Ham, great-grandson of Noah, was a Mesopotamian monarch and "a mighty hunter before Yahweh". He is mentioned in the Table of Nations (Genesis 10), in the First Book of Chronicles, and in the Book of Micah. In the Bible he is an obscure figure; in later interpretations, as recorded by Josephus and the rabbis who compiled the midrash, he is the subject of innumerable legends.

Procopius of Gaza (c. 465-528 AD) was a Christian sophist and rhetorician, one of the most important representatives of the famous school of his native place. Here he spent nearly the whole of his life teaching and writing, and took no part in the theological movements of his time. The little that is known of him is to be found in his letters and the encomium by his pupil and successor Choricius. He was the author of numerous rhetorical and theological works.

Benjamin Kennicott (April 4, 1718 - September 18, 1783), was an English churchman and Hebrew scholar. He was born at Totnes, Devon. He succeeded his father as master of a charity school, but the generosity of some friends enabled him to go to Wadham College, Oxford, in 1744, and he distinguished himself in Hebrew and divinity. While an undergraduate he published two dissertations, "On the Tree of Life in Paradise, with some Observations on the Fall of Man", …

Abigail (is a female name occurring in Biblical narratives from the Books of Samuel, and reflected in the Books of Chronicles. The name "Abigal" occurs on one occasion, and is thought by the vast majority of scholars to be an alternate spelling of "Abigail". There appear to be two individuals named "Abigail": *The wife of Nabal, who became a wife of David after Nabal's sudden death (see Nabal). She became the mother of one of David's sons, …

Alonso Tostado known in Latin as Tostatus Abulensis ((ca. 1400 - 3 September 1455) was a Spanish exegete and bishop of Ávila. After a course of grammar under the Franciscans he entered the University of Salamanca, where, besides philosophy and theology, he studied civil and canon law, Greek, Hebrew, and the other branches then comprised in the curriculum of a university.

Enos or Enosh is a biblical name in the genealogies of Adam, and consequently referred to within the genealogies of Chronicles, and of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. He is the son of Seth, father of Kenan, and grandson of Adam (Gen. 5:6-11; Luke 3:38). He supposedly lived nine hundred and five years. In his time “men began to call upon the name of the Lord” (Gen.

Jonah (Hebrew: רבי יונה) was a Palestinian amora of the 4th century, the leading rabbinical authority in the 4th amoraic generation. With Jose II, his early schoolmate and lifelong colleague and business partner, he studied under Ze'era I and Rav Ela (Bek. 30a; Yer. Ter. ii. 41d), and when, as young men, they called on Abbahu to express their sympathy with him in his bereavement, he treated them as prominent scholars (Yer. Sanh. vi. 23d).

Yiram of Magdiel (fl. 10th century) was a minor Jewish commentator on the Bible, active in Rome. The term "Magdiel", which appears in "Genesis" 36:43, was apparently interpreted as Rome (see Rashi on that verse), so that his name was really Yiram of Rome. Yiram was a younger contemporary of Saadia Gaon and perhaps even a student of his. He apparently wrote a commentary on the "Books of Chronicles", which is known only from a handful of fragments.