Shobek (The Nehemiah Covenant Maker)

 
 Associates of King Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: 0424 BC
 Nehemiah (Nechemia) ben Hachaliah|Prophet 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha||Nehemiah 10:1-28|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,||Ezra 2:2|These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, B|igvai, Rehum and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
deat: DECEASED
 Associates of Prophet Nehemiah ben Hachaliah 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha
deat: DECEASED
 Covenant Makers of Nehemiah ben Hachaliah 
 birt: Nehemiah 9:4-5, 38; 10:1-28
plac: Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua [ben Jozadak], and Bani [peer of Ezra]|, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani [ben Bani], and Chenani, and cried with a loud v|oice unto the LORD their God.||Then the Levites, Jeshua [ben Jozadak], and Kadmiel, Bani [peer of Ezra], Hashabniah, Sherebi|ah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever an|d ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.|...|And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, an|d priests, seal unto it.||Chapter 10:|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,|2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,|3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,|4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,|5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,|6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,|7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,|8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.|9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;|10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,|11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,|12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,|13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.|14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,|15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,|16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,|17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,|18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,|19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,|20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,|21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,|22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,|23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,|24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,|25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,|26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,|27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.|28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethin|ims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law o|f God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having u|nderstanding;
deat: DECEASED
 Shobek (The Nehemiah Covenant Maker) 
birt: Nehemiah 10:1-28
plac: NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,|2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,|3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,|4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,|5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,|6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,|7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,|8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.|9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;|10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,|11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,|12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,|13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.|14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,|15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,|16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,|17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,|18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,|19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,|20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,|21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,|22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,|23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,|24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,|25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,|26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,|27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.|28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethi|nims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law o|f God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having u|nderstanding;
deat: DECEASED

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Rehum (Nehum) (Rechum) (Exile with Zerubbabel)|Exile


AKA (Rehum) Nehum (Exile with Zerubbabel)|(Exile with Zerubbabel)
birt: Ne 7:7 -
plac: who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mi|spereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of men of the people of Israel:
deat: DECEASED

 
 Associates of King Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: 0424 BC
 Nehemiah (Nechemia) ben Hachaliah|Prophet 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha||Nehemiah 10:1-28|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,||Ezra 2:2|These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, B|igvai, Rehum and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
deat: DECEASED
 Associates of Prophet Nehemiah ben Hachaliah 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha
deat: DECEASED
 Returning Exiles, time of Nehemiah ben Hachaliah 
 birt: Neh 7:6 These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles who
plac: m Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, eac|h to his own town, 7 in company with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani|, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum and Baanah): The list of the men of Israel:
deat: DECEASED
 Rehum (Nehum) (Rechum) (Exile with Zerubbabel)|Exile 
birt: Neh.7: 6
plac: These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuch|adnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to hi|s own town, 7 in company with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Morde|cai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum and Baanah):||Nehemiah 10:1-28|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,|2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,|3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,|4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,|5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,|6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,|7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,|8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.|9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;|10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,|11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,|12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,|13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.|14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,|15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,|16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,|17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,|18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,|19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,|20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,|21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,|22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,|23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,|24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,|25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,|26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,|27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.|28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethi|nims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law o|f God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having u|nderstanding;||Ezra 2:2|These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, B|igvai, Rehum and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
deat: DECEASED

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Hashabnah (The Nehemiah Covenant Maker)

 
 Associates of King Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: 0424 BC
 Nehemiah (Nechemia) ben Hachaliah|Prophet 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha||Nehemiah 10:1-28|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,||Ezra 2:2|These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, B|igvai, Rehum and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
deat: DECEASED
 Associates of Prophet Nehemiah ben Hachaliah 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha
deat: DECEASED
 Covenant Makers of Nehemiah ben Hachaliah 
 birt: Nehemiah 9:4-5, 38; 10:1-28
plac: Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua [ben Jozadak], and Bani [peer of Ezra]|, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani [ben Bani], and Chenani, and cried with a loud v|oice unto the LORD their God.||Then the Levites, Jeshua [ben Jozadak], and Kadmiel, Bani [peer of Ezra], Hashabniah, Sherebi|ah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever an|d ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.|...|And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, an|d priests, seal unto it.||Chapter 10:|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,|2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,|3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,|4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,|5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,|6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,|7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,|8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.|9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;|10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,|11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,|12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,|13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.|14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,|15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,|16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,|17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,|18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,|19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,|20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,|21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,|22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,|23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,|24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,|25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,|26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,|27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.|28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethin|ims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law o|f God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having u|nderstanding;
deat: DECEASED
 Hashabnah (The Nehemiah Covenant Maker) 
birt: Nehemiah 10:1-28
plac: NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,|2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,|3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,|4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,|5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,|6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,|7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,|8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.|9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;|10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,|11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,|12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,|13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.|14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,|15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,|16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,|17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,|18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,|19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,|20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,|21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,|22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,|23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,|24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,|25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,|26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,|27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.|28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethi|nims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law o|f God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having u|nderstanding;
deat: DECEASED

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(3 of 3) Hanan (The Nehemiah Covenant Maker)|(The Nehemiah Covenant Maker)

 
 Associates of King Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: 0424 BC
 Nehemiah (Nechemia) ben Hachaliah|Prophet 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha||Nehemiah 10:1-28|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,||Ezra 2:2|These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, B|igvai, Rehum and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
deat: DECEASED
 Associates of Prophet Nehemiah ben Hachaliah 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha
deat: DECEASED
 Covenant Makers of Nehemiah ben Hachaliah 
 birt: Nehemiah 9:4-5, 38; 10:1-28
plac: Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua [ben Jozadak], and Bani [peer of Ezra]|, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani [ben Bani], and Chenani, and cried with a loud v|oice unto the LORD their God.||Then the Levites, Jeshua [ben Jozadak], and Kadmiel, Bani [peer of Ezra], Hashabniah, Sherebi|ah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever an|d ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.|...|And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, an|d priests, seal unto it.||Chapter 10:|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,|2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,|3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,|4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,|5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,|6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,|7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,|8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.|9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;|10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,|11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,|12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,|13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.|14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,|15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,|16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,|17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,|18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,|19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,|20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,|21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,|22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,|23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,|24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,|25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,|26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,|27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.|28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethin|ims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law o|f God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having u|nderstanding;
deat: DECEASED
 (3 of 3) Hanan (The Nehemiah Covenant Maker)|(The Nehemiah Covenant Maker) 
birt: Neh. 10:26
plac: |Nehemiah 10:1-28|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,|2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,|3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,|4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,|5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,|6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,|7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,|8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.|9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;|10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,|11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,|12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,|13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.|14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,|15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,|16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,|17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,|18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,|19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,|20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,|21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,|22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,|23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,|24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,|25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,|26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,|27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.|28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethi|nims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law o|f God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having u|nderstanding;
deat: DECEASED

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Anan (The Nehemiah Covenant Maker)

 
 Associates of King Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: 0424 BC
 Nehemiah (Nechemia) ben Hachaliah|Prophet 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha||Nehemiah 10:1-28|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,||Ezra 2:2|These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, B|igvai, Rehum and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
deat: DECEASED
 Associates of Prophet Nehemiah ben Hachaliah 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha
deat: DECEASED
 Covenant Makers of Nehemiah ben Hachaliah 
 birt: Nehemiah 9:4-5, 38; 10:1-28
plac: Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua [ben Jozadak], and Bani [peer of Ezra]|, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani [ben Bani], and Chenani, and cried with a loud v|oice unto the LORD their God.||Then the Levites, Jeshua [ben Jozadak], and Kadmiel, Bani [peer of Ezra], Hashabniah, Sherebi|ah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever an|d ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.|...|And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, an|d priests, seal unto it.||Chapter 10:|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,|2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,|3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,|4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,|5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,|6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,|7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,|8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.|9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;|10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,|11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,|12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,|13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.|14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,|15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,|16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,|17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,|18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,|19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,|20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,|21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,|22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,|23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,|24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,|25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,|26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,|27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.|28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethin|ims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law o|f God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having u|nderstanding;
deat: DECEASED
 Anan (The Nehemiah Covenant Maker) 
birt: Nehemiah 10:1-28
plac: NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,|2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,|3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,|4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,|5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,|6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,|7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,|8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.|9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;|10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,|11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,|12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,|13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.|14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,|15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,|16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,|17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,|18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,|19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,|20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,|21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,|22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,|23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,|24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,|25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,|26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,|27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.|28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethi|nims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law o|f God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having u|nderstanding;
deat: DECEASED

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Baanah (Ba`anah) (Exile with Zerubbabel)|Exile

 
 Associates of King Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: 0424 BC
 Nehemiah (Nechemia) ben Hachaliah|Prophet 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha||Nehemiah 10:1-28|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,||Ezra 2:2|These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, B|igvai, Rehum and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
deat: DECEASED
 Associates of Prophet Nehemiah ben Hachaliah 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha
deat: DECEASED
 Returning Exiles, time of Nehemiah ben Hachaliah 
 birt: Neh 7:6 These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles who
plac: m Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, eac|h to his own town, 7 in company with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani|, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum and Baanah): The list of the men of Israel:
deat: DECEASED
 Baanah (Ba`anah) (Exile with Zerubbabel)|Exile 
birt: Neh.7: 6
plac: These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuch|adnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to hi|s own town, 7 in company with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Morde|cai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum and Baanah):||Nehemiah 10:1-28|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,|2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,|3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,|4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,|5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,|6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,|7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,|8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.|9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;|10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,|11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,|12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,|13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.|14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,|15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,|16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,|17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,|18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,|19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,|20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,|21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,|22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,|23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,|24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,|25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,|26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,|27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.|28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethi|nims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law o|f God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having u|nderstanding;|Ezra 2:2|These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, B|igvai, Rehum and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
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 Alexander III of Philip II of Amyntas III|King|King of Macedonia 
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plac: Pella, Macedonia, Greece|Alexander by Plutarch|75 AD|ALEXANDER|356-323 B.C.|by Plutarch|translated by John Dryden|ALEXANDER -|IT being my purpose to write the lives of Alexander the king, and of Caesar, by whom Pompey w|as destroyed, the multitude of their great actions affords so large a field that I were to bl|ame if I should not by way of apology forewarn my reader that I have chosen rather to epitomi|ze the most celebrated parts of their story, than to insist at large on every particular circ|umstance of it. It must be borne in mind that my design is not to write histories, but lives.|...|(http://www.4literature.net/Plutarch/Alexander/)|Sacred Texts <../../index.htm> Judaism <../index.htm> Index Previous Next ||p. 8|ALEXANDER OF MACEDON|THE great conqueror Alexander the Macedonian, the son of Philip, who, at the instigation of t|he Persians, was assassinated by Pisanius, when yet a boy showed great thirst for conquest. W|hen he heard of his father's conquests he wept bitterly, complaining that by the time he assu|med the crown there would be so little for him to conquer. He was barely twenty years old whe|n he ascended the throne, but he knew well how to make his power felt. He soon conquered th|e Thracians, as well as the rebellious Thebans, and his heroic qualities developed so rapidl|y that he was appointed by the Greeks as military chief in their wars against the Persians. U|ninterrupted success followed his arms, and had he not died at a comparatively early age he w|ould probably have conquered what was then known as the whole world. His victory over the Per|sian General Memnon, on the river Granicus, in the North-West of Asia Minor, opened for him t|he road into the interior of further Asia. He was not slow to take advantage of the opportuni|ty, and pushed rapidly through the States of Asia Minor, through Lydia and Ionia to Pamphylia|. In the latter, near Issus, he gained a brilliant victory over Darius the Third, also know|n as Codomanus, who narrowly escaped death, leaving his mother, his wife and his children i|n the hands of the conqueror.|The Macedonian hero, with his troops intoxicated with victory after victory, now entered Syri|a, not so much in pursuit of Darius as with a view to extending|p. 9|his conquests. He took Damascus and Sidon, and attacked Tyre, so as to become master of the s|ea also.|That city, however, being very strongly fortified, and being on one side protected by the sea|, offered a stubborn resistance, and Alexander found himself compelled to embark on a long si|ege. In order to prevent any untoward event during the siege, Alexander was anxious to ensur|e immunity from the neighbouring State.|He therefore sent a message to Jerusalem, with a letter to the High Priest Jedua with the fol|lowing requests: (1) To supply him with troops; (2) to allow free traffic between the Macedon|ian army and Jerusalem; (3) to give him every possible assistance, such as had been granted t|o Darius. A hint was also thrown out that the High Priest would do well to consider whose fri|endship and goodwill was of greater value--that of the victor, or that of the vanquished.|The letter further expressed Alexander's anticipation of having these modest requests granted|, and assured the Jews that they would have no reason to regret compliance. The Jews could no|t but know that it would be greatly to their advantage to be on good terms with this famous h|ero, and that the beaten Persian could neither benefit nor injure them. Yet they did not fee|l justified in deserting the Persians. The High Priest therefore indited something like the f|ollowing answer:--|'Recognition and high esteem are undoubtedly due to so glorious a hero, yet for the present t|he Jews of Jerusalem cannot comply with his wishes, for these reasons: We Jews have promise|d our loyalty, on our oath, to Darius. So long as that Prince lives the oath has its force, a|nd the Jews could commit no sin so grievous as wilful perjury, seeing that one of their comma|ndments, with which God has entrusted them, is this: "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lor|d thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless|p. 10|that taketh His name in vain."' The High Priest moreover mentioned instances--such as Zedekia|h, the last King of Judah, who became disloyal to the Babylonian ruler, his former allegianc|e notwithstanding, and brought calamity upon himself and upon Judea. He further pointed out t|hat Moses' teaching tends to show that the God of Israel is a God of Truth, that treachery an|d untruth bring misfortune on those who practise them, and that it is incumbent on every tru|e adherent of the teaching of Moses to avoid all falsehood and duplicity. Alexander would per|haps have been satisfied with the explanation offered by the High Priest Jedua, had it not be|en for the Samaritans, who, whilst practising all sorts of idolatry, were at the same time an|xious to unite with the Jews, and to be considered as a portion of that body. When the Jews r|epudiated them, they sought to set up a temple of their own on the model of the Jerusalem Tem|ple. Menasseh, a brother of Jedua, formerly a priest, having married a Samaritan woman, the d|aughter of a Samaritan governor, was deprived of his office of priest in the temple, and wa|s naturally all the more anxious to set up an opposition temple, in which he could exercise h|is priestly function. The Samaritans therefore strained every nerve to excite Alexander's ill|will against the Jews, and to obtain his sanction for the erection of a temple on Mount Geriz|im.|Sanblat, the Governor of Samaria, and father-in-law of Menasseh, the expelled priest, sough|t audience of Alexander, and took the opportunity to give his version of the motives of Jedua|, the High Priest, in refusing Alexander's requests. He maintained that loyalty to Darius wa|s not the motive of the refusal, as the Jews, he said, knew nothing of loyalty, but, on the c|ontrary, would overthrow every throne not occupied by one of their own people if they had th|e power. He said that they were priest-ridden, and that if there were any who|p. 11|would join his (Alexander's) army, they dared not venture it, as that would exclude them fro|m participating in the Temple service, which to them meant moral death. If he (the Macedonian|) would only secure an alternative to the Jerusalem Temple by sanctioning the opposition Temp|le which the Samaritans were anxious to set up, this would bring large numbers from Jerusale|m to the new Temple; and the newcomers, no longer fearing exclusion from the Jerusalem servic|e, would gladly join with the Samaritans the banner of the great conqueror Alexander. It is p|erhaps not surprising that the Macedonian conqueror was much impressed with this plausible ve|rsion, especially when the Samaritans, as an earnest of their acceptance of and adhesion to t|he new state of affairs, deserted en masse the ranks of the crushed Darius, and went over t|o Alexander's army.|The desired permission for the building of the Gerizim Temple was granted, and the work was t|aken in band. Soon afterwards, however, the governor, who was a man of advanced age, died. Ty|re could no longer resist the severe siege, and, as predicted by the prophet (Is. 27), it cap|itulated. Indescribable slaughter and ravage took place within its walls; the town was laid i|n ruins, and its heroes were either slaughtered or taken as slaves.|Alexander now turned his attention to the punishment of the Jews, and started with his ever-v|ictorious army for Jerusalem. When the news of the approach of Alexander and his formidable a|rmy reached Jerusalem, there was consternation, and despair ruled supreme amongst the inhabit|ants, one and all. The Jews took refuge, as ever, in their religion; prayer, fasting, sackclo|th and ashes were the order of the day. Confession of sin and repentance were practised dail|y by almost every person. When Alexander was but about one day's distance from Jerusalem, th|e High Priest and Elders of the Temple had the streets of the|p. 12|city beautifully decorated, the public buildings as well as the private residences were magni|ficently adorned, and they ordered the inhabitants to form two lines in the streets--one oppo|site the other--the people to appear in their holiday attire. The gates of the city were bede|cked with garlands of the finest flowers, and triumphal arches were erected. The priests, th|e Levites and the Elders, at their head the venerable High Priest Jedua in full priestly robe|s, mitre, ephod and breastplate, made their way, towards evening, to the entrance of the city|, carrying torches and candles in their hands, and a light was thrown on the brilliant assemb|ly such as eclipsed the noonday brightness of a magnificent summer's day.|Soon after their arrival at the gate, Alexander, at the head of his army, made his appearance|. He was quite astonished at the sight that met his view, and seemed to be overwhelmed on beh|olding the grand and imposing assembly that came to meet him. When he saw the High Priest, wh|o looked even as an angel in his garments, Alexander dismounted, as though impelled by an ins|tinct, bowed himself reverently, and proclaimed aloud: 'Blessed be the God whose servant yo|u are.' His army, however, having anticipated plunder rather than the sight before them, coul|d ill conceal their bewilderment at the strange turn of affairs. They could hardly believe, o|n the evidence of their own senses, that their proud monarch should bend his head so humbly a|nd so reverently before the High Priest. One of Alexander's confidential and favourite office|rs, Parmenion by name, ventured at last to ask the King why he, the proud conqueror, showed s|uch marked honour and deference to the Jewish priest.|'Listen, then,' replied Alexander, 'and I will tell you of a wonderful experience of mine. Wh|ile I was still in Macedonia I often lay awake at night, when all else was at rest, thinkin|g of a plan by which to gain mastery|p. 13|of Asia. One evening, when my thoughts were more than usually occupied with this fond schem|e of mine, I fell, exhausted by this mental strain, into a deep slumber, and saw in a visio|n an awe-inspiring man standing before me. The very sight of him seemed to instil into me cou|rage and hope, and, as though reading my very thoughts, he advised me to cross the borders o|f Greece without further hesitation, and assured me of the success of my projected undertakin|g. That vision of mine was no myth, no nightmare, not the mere phantasy of a heated brain; fo|r not only have I, since that vision, never met with anything but victory, but in the hoar-he|aded and venerable servant of the Jewish God, in his attire and in his bearing, I see no othe|r than the man of my vision. Shall I not then revere the man who was the messenger of his Go|d to lead me to victory? I am equally convinced that my destiny is to overthrow Darius, and f|or that purpose I was called to undertake this venture, and the appearance of this holy man f|oretells complete success.' After this explanation, Alexander entered Jerusalem, accompanie|d by the Jewish dignitaries who came to meet him. He was welcomed and cheered throughout by t|he population of the city. His first request was to be taken to the Temple, where he anxiousl|y inquired concerning the ceremonies and sacrifices and the manner of the services.|His curiosity was gladly satisfied, and the High Priest directed his attention also to the pa|ssage in Daniel 8. 5, where it is foretold that a Greek ruler (which term the High Priest app|lied to Alexander) would overthrow the Persian kingdom, and Alexander was exceedingly please|d with all he saw and heard. The following day the Macedonian hero summoned all the priests a|nd elders, and asked them to tell him, without restraint and hesitation, what they wished o|f him as a token of his great satisfaction at the reception given him, and as a mark of his h|igh estimation of their|p. 14|services and organization. The High Priest, who was the spokesman, asked his Majesty to gran|t them the free and unhindered exercise of their religious rites, and to waive the payment o|f taxes in the Sabbatical year, when, according to the law of Moses, no agricultural pursuit|s were allowed, and consequently there was no revenue from their lands. This was at once gran|ted; but Alexander observed from Jedua's demeanour that there was some further favour he wish|ed to obtain, but that the good man was reluctant to name it. He therefore requested the Hig|h Priest to lay all his wishes before him. The High Priest then ventured to ask that the grea|t monarch might extend his permission regarding the exercise of the religious rites by his Je|wish subjects to all other parts of his wide dominions, such as Babylon and Media, and this w|as also cheerfully granted by the great Alexander. At the express wish of the Macedonian warr|ior, a large number of the most valiant of the Jewish community joined his army, and he gav|e them permission to follow their religious observances in the camp. As a further favour, Ale|xander requested that his likeness might be framed and placed in the Temple. It was pointed o|ut to him that the Jews were strictly forbidden to have pictures and likenesses of anything w|hatever in their places of worship, and, in lieu of this, it was suggested (1) that all mal|e children born in that year throughout Jerusalem should be named Alexander, and (2) that th|e Jews should adopt a new era called the Alexander Era. That era was to commence with Octobe|r 1 of the year 312 before the Christian era. This suggestion met with Alexander's approval|, and up to the eleventh century of the Christian era this method of reckoning the years wa|s actually in force, and was known as the Era of Documents. 1|With Alexander's entry into Jerusalem began a very|p. 15|considerable improvement in the condition of the Jews. 1 The Samaritans used every subterfug|e in order to be recognized as Jews by the Macedonian hero, so that they might enjoy the priv|ileges and advantages bestowed on the latter, but they failed to convince Alexander, who reme|mbered their efforts to prejudice him against the Jews, that they were of the same people. 'I|f you are indeed Jews,' he asked, 'how is it that you are not known by that name?' 'We are,|' they insisted, 'descendants of the Patriarch Jacob, and Israel's God is our God; but the Si|domites call us Samaritans, and we are also known to them by the name of Shechemites, after o|ur capital Shechem.'|Alexander was not satisfied with their answer, and told them that he could not recognize the|m as Jews, and to the Jews alone he had granted the privileges which the Samaritans sought t|o obtain. He asked them to leave the matter in abeyance till his return from the long journe|y he was about to undertake, and on his return he would thoroughly investigate their claim, a|nd then see that justice was done to them. The Samaritans were dissatisfied with Alexander'|s treatment of them, and they rebelled and burned the Governor Andromachus in his own palace|. Alexander's anger at this was very great; he returned, put to death the leaders, exiled a n|umber of Samaritans to Egypt, where they formed a colony in Thebais, and handed a large numbe|r of them over to the Jews as slaves, as a reward for their tried loyalty.|Alexander of Macedonia, be it remembered, was by no means a mere uncouth warrior whose knowle|dge did not extend beyond the narrow compass of the battlefield, for the vast dominion of ar|t and science was an open book to him. From his thirteenth to his eighteenth|p. 16|year he was a pupil of Aristotle, who guided him through all branches of wisdom and knowledge|, and inspired in him a love for Homer's works, which in fact he always carried with him. A|s a consequence, he naturally had a longing for intercourse with the educated and learned me|n of every place which he visited. Arrived in the South, his first step was to have the men d|istinguished for their wisdom brought before him. To them he put the following ten questions|: (1) Which is the longer distance--from the earth to the skies, or from the east of the worl|d to the west? Answer: The last-mentioned is the longer, because if the sun stands in the Eas|t or in the West, then he is perceived in the half of each sphere; but if he is in the centr|e of the sky, then he is not visible everywhere. Consequently he must be higher in the forme|r case than in the latter. (2) Which was created first--the heavens or the earth? Answer: Th|e Almighty clearly commenced His work with the heavens, for is it not said, 'In the beginnin|g God created the heavens and the earth'? (3) Who is truly wise? Answer: He who can foresee t|he result of his acts is truly a wise man. (4) Who is truly strong? Answer: Strength is in th|e possession of him who can overcome his passions. (5) Who can be considered truly rich? Answ|er: Truly rich is he who possesses contentment. (6) How can man acquire true life? Answer: Tr|ue life can be obtained by deadening one's passions. (7) What hastens man's death? Answer: In|dulgence in earthly pleasures. (8) How can man obtain the love of his fellow-men? Answer: B|y not seeking supremacy over them. Alexander felt himself hit by this answer, and said, 'I a|m not of your opinion in this respect. My idea is that, in order to obtain the love of one'|s fellow-man, one must acquire might and power, and use them with discretion.' (9) Which is t|he more agreeable abode--on land or water? Answer: Surely on land, because seafaring men ar|e not happy and contented|p. 17|till they reach land. (10) Who amongst you is considered the wisest? Answer: In this respec|t we are unable to give any one the preference, as you may have observed that our answers wer|e unanimous and simultaneous.|Alexander proceeded in argument with the wise men. 'Why,' he asked, 'are you so averse to hea|thenism, seeing that the heathens greatly outnumber you?' To which he received the reply tha|t it is just the multitude, the masses, who are apt to lose sight of truth, and it is only gi|ven to a comparative few to perceive and understand pure truth. 'But,' he continued, 'it is i|n my power to destroy the whole of you.' 'No doubt,' was the answer, 'you possess the power t|o do so, but we are not apprehensive on that point, having once received the promise of you|r protection.' He then consulted them concerning his projected journey to Africa. The wise me|n answered, 'That you cannot reach, as it lies beyond the dark mountains, which no human foo|t can traverse.' The king seemed to be piqued by this, and said, 'I do not ask you whethe|r I shall or can traverse those mountains. My mind is made up, and there is no resistance t|o my will. What I want to know is the best means known to man for undertaking this formidabl|e expedition.' The wise men advised him to the best of their knowledge. Part of their advic|e was to procure certain draught animals from Libya, which possess the faculty of seeing thei|r way in darkness. The king, having adopted all the necessary measures, started for Africa. H|e arrived at a place called the land of Amazon, whose inhabitants consisted only of women, t|o whom he sent a declaration of war. The women sent a message to him that a war with them cou|ld only be an inglorious one, inasmuch as if he were victorious a victory over women could no|t bring him either fame or honour; whereas if they should be victorious, that would surely br|ing disgrace upon him.|p. 18|The king saw the wisdom of their argument, and gave up the idea of war, but bade them suppl|y him with bread. The women brought him lumps of gold in the shape of loaves of bread. The ki|ng said in amazement 'Do you use this metal as bread?' They answered 'You surely have not com|e all this distance merely for bread; is there no bread in your own country?'|Alexander took his departure thence, but, before starting, he wrote on the gate of the city|: 'I, Alexander of Macedonia, was a simpleton until I arrived at this gate, where I learnt wi|sdom from women.' He next arrived at Katzia, where also he was met with presents of gold. '|I want no gold of yours,' said Alexander to the chief. 'And to what other purpose have you co|me all this great distance?' was the answer, given in the shape of a question. 'I have come,|' said Alexander, 'to become acquainted with your manners and customs, especially with your a|dministration of justice.'|A remarkable case of litigation happened to be in progress in the place at this time. A man w|ho had bought a house of another found in its precincts a treasure-trove, which he took bac|k to the seller, saying: 'This is yours; I bought the house only, and not what may be found i|n it.' The other, in refusing to accept the proffered treasure, argued that he sold the house|, and the buyer was the rightful owner of all that might be found in it. The judge gave his d|ecision that the son of the purchaser of the house should marry the daughter of the seller, a|nd the young couple should receive the treasure as a dowry. As Alexander expressed his wonde|r at and approval of the wise verdict, he was asked by the judge how a similar suit would b|e decided in his own country. 'In my country,' replied Alexander, 'the treasure would be take|n by the Crown, and both parties would be deterred by the threat of death from laying any cla|im to it.' 'How,' said the judge, 'have you also rain and sunshine in your|p. 19|country?' 'Surely,' replied Alexander. 'And you possess also animals and fowls?' 'Why not?' a|sked the Macedonian. 'Then,' remarked the judge, I must suppose that the purpose of the rai|n and sunshine in your land is to sustain those harmless creatures; for you, the human inhabi|tants, judging by your perverseness and injustice, are unworthy of such blessed gifts of natu|re.'|One day they arrived at a river, and as his servants were washing off the salt of the fish, w|hich they carried with them for their august master, in the water of the river, they saw tha|t life was returning to the fishes. When the marvellous event was reported to Alexander, he d|etermined to find the source of that river. He pursued his way, and at last found a gate, whe|re he demanded admittance. The answer he received to his demand was: 'This is the gate of th|e Lord; the righteous shall enter therein,' and he concluded that it must be the gate of Para|dise. As all his pleadings did not gain him admittance, he asked for some article from the pl|ace as a token of his having arrived there. A lump of gold in the shape of a human eye was ha|nded out to him, and on putting it in the scales to ascertain its remarkable weight, he foun|d that whatever weight he might put on the opposite scale, it would not turn the scale on whi|ch the golden eye was put. As soon as he met with the Rabbis again, he asked them to unriddl|e this remarkable thing. The Rabbis told him to put a little earth over the eye, and its weig|ht would vanish. They explained that the eye was a perfect type of the human eye, which, as t|he wise king tells us (Prov. 27.), is never satisfied, until a little earth is put over it (i|n death), and its everlasting hunger ceases. 1|p. 20|Alexander returned home from his great adventures through the wilderness and went to Egypt, w|here he built the city of Alexandria. He was anxious for the Jews, whom he held in high estee|m for their bravery and loyalty, to be among the settlers of the great city. Once, some Afric|an tribe and some descendants of Ishmael laid complaints before him against the Jews. The Afr|icans claimed the possession of Palestine, basing their claim on Numbers 34. 2 and on their b|eing descendants of Canaan; they maintained that they had an undisputed right to the countr|y of their ancestor. The sons of Ishmael, too, put in a claim to the possession of at leas|t a portion of Palestine, as the land was promised to their grandfather Abraham (Gen. 25. 13)|. And so the Egyptians bethought themselves of their claim against the Jews, and referred als|o to a Scriptural passage (Exod. 12. 36).|Alexander had the elders of the Jews summoned to him, and mentioned the claims of the respect|ive parties against them. The Jews selected one named Gebeha, son of Psisa, as their defender|. He faced the plaintiffs, and said: 'You have each based your claims on Scripture; I, too, w|ill plead against you out of the books of Moses, our lawgiver. Regarding the Canaanites, we h|ave it in Genesis 9. 25 that Canaan was cursed and was made a slave to his brothers. A slav|e can possess no property of his own. As to the demand of the Ishmaelites, we have it also o|n the same authority (Gen. 25. 5) that Abraham presented Isaac with all his possessions, an|d to the children of his concubines he made presents and sent them away from his son Isaac.|'Against the claims of the Egyptians, we have a huge counterclaim. The second book of Moses m|entions the|p. 21|time of the Jewish compulsory servitude in Egypt as 430 years. We are fully prepared to resto|re the value of what we carried away from Egypt, if the Egyptians will pay us the wages of 60|0,000 men, whom they compelled to work for them for the period mentioned.'|Alexander demanded a reply on the part of the three claimants against the Jewish arguments, w|ithin three days, if they did not wish to be punished for making fictitious claims.|Nothing more was heard of the claims. 1 The Jews rose in Alexander's esteem daily, and he gav|e them the most beautiful part of the city, on the banks of the river, as their quarter, an|d granted them the full rights of citizenship. The Jewish community increased greatly in weal|th and numbers. A year later, at the battle of Arbela, a town in Chaldea, Alexander entirel|y annihilated the Persian empire. After more wars and conquests, he died suddenly at the ag|e of thirty-three. His death was brought about as much by revelry as by his many cares and bo|dily exhaustion. Some of his generals contended for his throne; he was left unburied for som|e time, and eventually no royal burial was his portion. The Macedonian monarchy was divided a|mongst four of his generals.--Midr. Rabba Gen. 33; Lev. 27. and Tanchuma Emmor, etc.||Footnotes|14:1 See Rapoport's Erech Millin, page 73.|15:1 There is a difference in the dates mentioned in the Talmud. In Taanis it i|s stated as the 21st Kislev, and in Yoma 69 as the 28th of Tebeth.|19:1 This allegory was conspicuously applicable to Alexander's career and charact|er. However extensive were his conquests, he longed for more and was never satisfied, not eve|r after the p. 20 plundering of Asia, not after receiving, in consequence of his great conque|sts, the appellation of 'the great.' But with his death, his and his country's greatness ceas|ed, the monstrous possessions were cut up, and none of his kin ascended the throne.|21:1 Different dates are given for the above event. In Sanhed 91. it is given a|s the 24th of Nisson, and in Taanis as the 25th of Sivon.||Next: Demons |(http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tmm/tmm03.htm)
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  Darius II Nothos (Ochos) (Darayavahush) (Ochus) of Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I|King|Darius Nothus (Darius the Bastard)|King of Persia 
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plac: Persia (Iran)|Darius is the Latin form of Dareios, the Greek for of a Persian name, Darayavahash, which mea|nt roughly "To be Rich" from "daraymiy" (to hold) and "vahu" (well); Italian: Dario; Spanish|: Dario.|Royalty:|Darius I the Great (584 BC-486 BC) -- King of Persia.|Darius II Ochus (?-404 BC) -- King of Persia.|Darius III Codommanus (?-330 BC) -- King of Persia. Last king of the Achaemenid dynasty. Defe|ated by Alexander the Great.
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    Artaxerxes I (Longimanus) (Makrocheir) (Artakhshassa) of Xerxes I of Darius I|King|King of Persia
    birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)||Artaxerxes by Plutarch|ARTAXERXES|437-359 B.C.|by Plutarch|translated by John Dryden||ARTAXERXES -|THE first Artaxerxes, among all the kings of Persia the most remarkable for a gentle and nobl|e spirit, was surnamed the Long-handed, his right hand being longer than his left, and was th|e son of Xerxes. The second, whose story I am now writing, who had the surname of the Mindful|, was the grandson of the former, by his daughter Parysatis, who brought Darius four sons, th|e eldest Artaxerxes, the next Cyrus, and two younger than these, Ostanes and Oxathres. Cyru|s took his name of the ancient Cyrus, as he, they say, had his from the sun, which, in the Pe|rsian language, is called Cyrus. Artaxerxes was at first called Arsicas; Dinon says Oarses; b|ut it is utterly improbable that Ctesias (however otherwise he may have filled his books wit|h a perfect farrago of incredible and senseless fables) should be ignorant of the name of th|e king with whom he lived as his physician, attending upon himself, his wife, his mother, an|d his children.||Cyrus, from his earliest youth, showed something of a headstrong and vehement character; Arta|xerxes, on the other side, was gentler in everything, and of a nature more yielding and sof|t in its action. He married a beautiful and virtuous wife, at the desire of his parents, bu|t kept her as expressly against their wishes.|...[MUCH MORE]|(http://www.4literature.net/Plutarch/Artaxerxes/)
deat: 0424 BC
plac: Persia (Iran) Ruled 0464 - 0424 BC
marr:
marr: Concubine
marr:
marr:
   Parysatis, daughter of Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I|Parysatis of Persia 
  birt: ABT 0475 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
marr:
 
   Andia (Andria), daughter of Nebuchadnezzar III of Nebuchadnezzar II
  birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Babylon
deat: DECEASED
marr: Concubine
 Roxanna (Roxane) (Roxana), daughter of Oxathres of Darius II|Princess 
birt: ABT 0400 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
marr:

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AKA King (Artaxerxes I) Longimanus of Xerxes I

 
 Associates of King Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: 0424 BC
 Nehemiah (Nechemia) ben Hachaliah|Prophet 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha||Nehemiah 10:1-28|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,||Ezra 2:2|These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, B|igvai, Rehum and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
deat: DECEASED
 Associates of Prophet Nehemiah ben Hachaliah 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha
deat: DECEASED
 Artaxerxes I (Longimanus) (Makrocheir) (Artakhshassa) of Xerxes I of Darius I|King|King of Persia 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)||Artaxerxes by Plutarch|ARTAXERXES|437-359 B.C.|by Plutarch|translated by John Dryden||ARTAXERXES -|THE first Artaxerxes, among all the kings of Persia the most remarkable for a gentle and nobl|e spirit, was surnamed the Long-handed, his right hand being longer than his left, and was th|e son of Xerxes. The second, whose story I am now writing, who had the surname of the Mindful|, was the grandson of the former, by his daughter Parysatis, who brought Darius four sons, th|e eldest Artaxerxes, the next Cyrus, and two younger than these, Ostanes and Oxathres. Cyru|s took his name of the ancient Cyrus, as he, they say, had his from the sun, which, in the Pe|rsian language, is called Cyrus. Artaxerxes was at first called Arsicas; Dinon says Oarses; b|ut it is utterly improbable that Ctesias (however otherwise he may have filled his books wit|h a perfect farrago of incredible and senseless fables) should be ignorant of the name of th|e king with whom he lived as his physician, attending upon himself, his wife, his mother, an|d his children.||Cyrus, from his earliest youth, showed something of a headstrong and vehement character; Arta|xerxes, on the other side, was gentler in everything, and of a nature more yielding and sof|t in its action. He married a beautiful and virtuous wife, at the desire of his parents, bu|t kept her as expressly against their wishes.|...[MUCH MORE]|(http://www.4literature.net/Plutarch/Artaxerxes/)
deat: 0424 BC
plac: Persia (Iran) Ruled 0464 - 0424 BC
marr:
marr: Concubine
marr:
marr:
 AKA King (Artaxerxes I) Longimanus of Xerxes I 
birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
 
 Damaspia (wife of Artaxerxes I) 
birt: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
marr:

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Isis I (Aset) (Iset) (concubine of Thutmose II)|Queen


AKA Concubine (Isis) Iset I
birt: Egypt
deat: DECEASED


AKA Concubine (Isis) Aset I
birt: Egypt
deat: DECEASED

 
 Isis I (Aset) (Iset) (concubine of Thutmose II)|Queen 
birt: Egypt
deat: DECEASED


Thutmose II (Akheperenre) (Aakheperenra) of Thutmose I|Pharaoh
marr:
birt: Egypt
deat: 1479 BC

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Apries (Hophra) (Haaibra Wahibra)|Pharaoh


Associates of Pharaoh Hophra (Apries)|(Apries)
birt: Egypt
deat: DECEASED

 
 Daniel (Belteshazzar) of Judah ben Jacob|Prophet
 birt: ABT 0620 BC
plac: Daniel 1:6|Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: Unto w|hom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; a|nd to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.|CHAPTER XXXII4. p. 69|OF THE DEATH OF THE PROPHETS; HOW THEY DlED, AND (WHERE) EACH ONE OF THEM WAS BURIED5.||Habakkuk (was) of the tribe of Simeon, and from the land of Sûâr (Zoar)3. This (prophet) p|rophesied concerning the Messiah, that He should come, and abrogate the laws of the Jews. H|e brought food to Daniel at Babylon by the divine (or, angelic) agency. The Jews stoned him i|n Jerusalem.||3 Epiphanius, ἐξ ἀγρου̑ Βηθοχήρ {Greek: eks agrou Bhðoxhr}. A variant has Βιδζεχάρ {Greek|: Bidzexár}.||(http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/bb/bb32.htm)
deat: DECEASED
plac: CHAPTER XXXII4. p. 69|OF THE DEATH OF THE PROPHETS; HOW THEY DlED, AND (WHERE) EACH ONE OF THEM WAS BURIED5.||Daniel (was) of the tribe of Judah, and was born in Upper Beth-Horon. He was a man who kep|t himself from women, and hence the Jews thought that he was an eunuch, for his face was diff|erent (from that of other men), and he had no children. He prayed for the Babylonians, and di|ed in Elam, in the city of the Hôzâyê1, and was buried in Shôshan the fortress. He prophesie|d concerning the return of the people.||1 In Arabic al-Ahwâz, now Khûzistân.|(http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/bb/bb32.htm)
 Associates of Prophet Daniel of Judah 
 birt:
deat: DECEASED
 Zedekiah (Mattaniah) ben Josiah II ben Amon|King|King of Judah (598 BC) 
 birt: ABT 0625 BC
plac: Judah, Judea, Southern Israel||Matt 1:11|And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon|:||Jeremiah 1:3|Lived in the days of Jeremiah.||1 Chr 3:15|And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah|, the fourth Shallum.||2Ki 24:17 -|And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed hi|s name to Zedekiah.||2 Kings 24:18|Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years i|n Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.||1 Chr 3:16|And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
deat: ABT 0586 BC
plac: Babylon, Babylonia
 Associates of King Zedekiah ben Josiah 
 birt: ABT 0625 BC
plac: Judah, Judea, Southern Israel
deat: DECEASED
 Apries (Hophra) (Haaibra Wahibra)|Pharaoh 
birt: Egypt
deat: 0570 BC
plac: Egypt Ruled 0589 - 0570 BC

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Source: Online Wikipedia Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharaohs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahibre . Fled Egypt after Amasis II (who was a general at the time) declared himself pharaoh followin g a civil war. Son of Psamtik II. Ruled 0589 - 0570 BC BD PHARAOH (See Egypt.) The title given to the Egyptian kings; its meaning is “Great House” (cf. “Sublime Porte” or G ate). Nine or ten different Pharaohs are mentioned in the O.T., belonging to several differen t dynasties. (8) Pharaoh Hophra, who sent an army to the assistance of Zedekiah (Jer. 37: 5-11; Jer. 43: 9 ; Ezek. 17: 17; Ezek. 29: 2-3; Ezek. 30: 21-25; Ezek. 31: 2, 18; Ezek. 32: 2, 31-32). See als o Abr. 1. Hophra = Apries = Wahibre Posted By: Charles Pope Date: Sunday, 28 April 2002, at 12:12 p.m. In Response To: Pharaoh-hophra (ManofYH) Hophra is the Hebraized form of the Greek Apries. This was a pharaoh of the Egyptian 26th Dyn asty (c. 589-570 BC). The Egyptian form of his name was Wahibre/Haaibre. This is not conteste d among Egyptologists. (http://www.domainofman.com/forum/index.cgi?read=221) COLUMBIA ENCYCLOPEDIA pharaoh (fâr´) (KEY) [Heb., from Egyptian,=the great house], title of the kings of ancient Egypt. O f the pharaohs in the Bible, Shishak is Sheshonk I, Neco or Necoh is Necho, and Hophra is Apr ies. Many scholars believe that the pharaoh who oppressed the Jews in chapters 1–14 of the Bo ok of Exodus was Seti I and that his son Ramses II was the pharaoh of the Exodus. (http://www.bartleby.com/65/ph/pharaoh.html)


AKA King (Xerxes I) Ahasuerus of Darius I

 
 Associates of King Xerxes I of Darius I
 birt: 0519 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
plac: Persepolis
 Confusion of Angels 
 birt:
deat: DECEASED
 Associates of the Confusion of Angels 
 birt:
deat: DECEASED
 Xerxes I (Ahasuerus) (Khshayarsha) of Darius I of Hystaspes I|King|King of Persia 
 birt: 0519 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)|Es 1:1 -|Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India ev|en unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
deat: 0466 BC
plac: Persepolis Ruled 0486 - 0465 BC
marr:
marr:
marr:
 AKA King (Xerxes I) Ahasuerus of Darius I 
birt: 0519 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
 
  Otanes (Utâna) of Pharnaspes 
  birt: ABT 0540 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
marr:
 Amestris, daughter of Otanes of Pharnaspes 
birt: ABT 0520 BC
deat: DECEASED
marr:
 
  Cambyses II (Kambujiya) (Arshama) of Cyrus II of Cambyses I|King|King Cambyses II (530-522 BC)
  birt: 0588 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)||The name of Cambyse II's mother is not known. The Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassu|s calls her Cassandane, but Ctesias of Cnidus states she was Amytis, the daughter of the las|t king of independent Media, Astyages.||550 BC
deat: 0522 BC
plac: Egypt Ruled 0525 - 0521 BC|518/517 BC
marr:
marr:
  Associates of King Cambyses II of Cyrus II 
  birt: ABT 0588 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: 0522 BC
 
   Atossa (Hutaosâ), daughter of Cyrus II of Cambyses I|Princess|Princess of Persia
  birt: 0550 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
 (Daughter) of Hystaspes I of Arsames 
birt: ABT 0540 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
marr:

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Associates of Princess Atossa of Cyrus II

 
 Prophetic Contemporaries of Jeremiah ben Hilkiah
 birt: Anatoth, Benjamin, Judea, Southern Israel
deat: DECEASED
 Daniel (Belteshazzar) of Judah ben Jacob|Prophet 
 birt: ABT 0620 BC
plac: Daniel 1:6|Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: Unto w|hom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; a|nd to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.|CHAPTER XXXII4. p. 69|OF THE DEATH OF THE PROPHETS; HOW THEY DlED, AND (WHERE) EACH ONE OF THEM WAS BURIED5.||Habakkuk (was) of the tribe of Simeon, and from the land of Sûâr (Zoar)3. This (prophet) p|rophesied concerning the Messiah, that He should come, and abrogate the laws of the Jews. H|e brought food to Daniel at Babylon by the divine (or, angelic) agency. The Jews stoned him i|n Jerusalem.||3 Epiphanius, ἐξ ἀγρου̑ Βηθοχήρ {Greek: eks agrou Bhðoxhr}. A variant has Βιδζεχάρ {Greek|: Bidzexár}.||(http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/bb/bb32.htm)
deat: DECEASED
plac: CHAPTER XXXII4. p. 69|OF THE DEATH OF THE PROPHETS; HOW THEY DlED, AND (WHERE) EACH ONE OF THEM WAS BURIED5.||Daniel (was) of the tribe of Judah, and was born in Upper Beth-Horon. He was a man who kep|t himself from women, and hence the Jews thought that he was an eunuch, for his face was diff|erent (from that of other men), and he had no children. He prayed for the Babylonians, and di|ed in Elam, in the city of the Hôzâyê1, and was buried in Shôshan the fortress. He prophesie|d concerning the return of the people.||1 In Arabic al-Ahwâz, now Khûzistân.|(http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/bb/bb32.htm)
 Associates of Prophet Daniel of Judah 
 birt:
deat: DECEASED
 Darius I (Setutre) (Darayavahush) of Hystaspes I of Arsames|King and General|Darius the Mede, King of Chaldea, (Darius I (521-485 BC)) 
 birt: 0550 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)|Darius is the Latin form of Dareios, the Greek for of a Persian name, Darayavahash, which mea|nt roughly "To be Rich" from "daraymiy" (to hold) and "vahu" (well); Italian: Dario; Spanish|: Dario.|Royalty:|Darius I the Great (584 BC-486 BC) -- King of Persia.|Darius II Ochus (?-404 BC) -- King of Persia.|Darius III Codommanus (?-330 BC) -- King of Persia. Last king of the Achaemenid dynasty. Defe|ated by Alexander the Great.
deat: 0486 BC
plac: Parthia, Iran Ruled 0521 - 0486 BC
marr:
marr:
marr:
marr:
marr:
 Associates of Princess Atossa of Cyrus II 
birt: ABT 0550 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
 
  Cyrus II (Kurush) (Kuruš) (Kores) of Cambyses I of Cyrus I|King|Cyrus the Great|King of Persia (538 BC-530 BC) 
  birt: 0585 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: 0530 BC/529 BC
plac: Asia
marr:
 Atossa (Hutaosâ), daughter of Cyrus II of Cambyses I|Princess|Princess of Persia 
birt: 0550 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED

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AKA King (Darius II) Ochos of Xerxes I

 
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 birt:
deat:
 Pharaonic Rulers of Egypt 
 birt: 2920 BC
plac: Egypt
deat: 0332 BC
 Twenty-seventh Dynasty Pharaohs of Egypt 
 birt: 0525 BC
plac: Egypt
deat: 0404 BC
 Darius II Nothos (Ochos) (Darayavahush) (Ochus) of Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I|King|Darius Nothus (Darius the Bastard)|King of Persia 
 birt: 0475 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)|Darius is the Latin form of Dareios, the Greek for of a Persian name, Darayavahash, which mea|nt roughly "To be Rich" from "daraymiy" (to hold) and "vahu" (well); Italian: Dario; Spanish|: Dario.|Royalty:|Darius I the Great (584 BC-486 BC) -- King of Persia.|Darius II Ochus (?-404 BC) -- King of Persia.|Darius III Codommanus (?-330 BC) -- King of Persia. Last king of the Achaemenid dynasty. Defe|ated by Alexander the Great.
deat: 0404 BC
plac: Babylon (Iraq) Ruled 0424 - 0404 BC|0336 BC
marr:
 AKA King (Darius II) Ochos of Xerxes I 
birt: 0475 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
 
  Nehemiah (Nechemia) ben Hachaliah|Prophet
  birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha||Nehemiah 10:1-28|NOW those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,||Ezra 2:2|These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, B|igvai, Rehum and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
deat: DECEASED
  Associates of Prophet Nehemiah ben Hachaliah 
  birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha
deat: DECEASED
  Artaxerxes I (Longimanus) (Makrocheir) (Artakhshassa) of Xerxes I of Darius I|King|King of Persia 
  birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)||Artaxerxes by Plutarch|ARTAXERXES|437-359 B.C.|by Plutarch|translated by John Dryden||ARTAXERXES -|THE first Artaxerxes, among all the kings of Persia the most remarkable for a gentle and nobl|e spirit, was surnamed the Long-handed, his right hand being longer than his left, and was th|e son of Xerxes. The second, whose story I am now writing, who had the surname of the Mindful|, was the grandson of the former, by his daughter Parysatis, who brought Darius four sons, th|e eldest Artaxerxes, the next Cyrus, and two younger than these, Ostanes and Oxathres. Cyru|s took his name of the ancient Cyrus, as he, they say, had his from the sun, which, in the Pe|rsian language, is called Cyrus. Artaxerxes was at first called Arsicas; Dinon says Oarses; b|ut it is utterly improbable that Ctesias (however otherwise he may have filled his books wit|h a perfect farrago of incredible and senseless fables) should be ignorant of the name of th|e king with whom he lived as his physician, attending upon himself, his wife, his mother, an|d his children.||Cyrus, from his earliest youth, showed something of a headstrong and vehement character; Arta|xerxes, on the other side, was gentler in everything, and of a nature more yielding and sof|t in its action. He married a beautiful and virtuous wife, at the desire of his parents, bu|t kept her as expressly against their wishes.|...[MUCH MORE]|(http://www.4literature.net/Plutarch/Artaxerxes/)
deat: 0424 BC
plac: Persia (Iran) Ruled 0464 - 0424 BC
marr:
marr: Concubine
marr:
marr:
 Parysatis, daughter of Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I|Parysatis of Persia 
birt: ABT 0475 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
marr:
 
  Nebuchadnezzar II (Nabuchadrezzer) (Nabu-Na'id) (Nabu-Kudurri Usur) (Nabu-Kudurri-User) (Nidintu-Bel) of Nabopolassar|King|(Nabonidus) (Labynetus I) (Nabonedochos) (Nabonnidechus) (Nabunaita)
  birt: 0630 BC
plac: Babylon
deat: 0539 BC
  Nebuchadnezzar III of Nebuchadnezzar II of Nabopolassar|King 
  birt: ABT 0585 BC
plac: Babylon
deat: DECEASED
 Andia (Andria), daughter of Nebuchadnezzar III of Nebuchadnezzar II 
birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Babylon
deat: DECEASED
marr: Concubine

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AKA King (Artaxerxes II) Mnemon of Artaxerxes I

 
 Pharaonic Rulers of Egypt
 birt: 2920 BC
plac: Egypt
deat: 0332 BC
 Twenty-seventh Dynasty Pharaohs of Egypt 
 birt: 0525 BC
plac: Egypt
deat: 0404 BC
 Darius II Nothos (Ochos) (Darayavahush) (Ochus) of Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I|King|Darius Nothus (Darius the Bastard)|King of Persia 
 birt: 0475 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)|Darius is the Latin form of Dareios, the Greek for of a Persian name, Darayavahash, which mea|nt roughly "To be Rich" from "daraymiy" (to hold) and "vahu" (well); Italian: Dario; Spanish|: Dario.|Royalty:|Darius I the Great (584 BC-486 BC) -- King of Persia.|Darius II Ochus (?-404 BC) -- King of Persia.|Darius III Codommanus (?-330 BC) -- King of Persia. Last king of the Achaemenid dynasty. Defe|ated by Alexander the Great.
deat: 0404 BC
plac: Babylon (Iraq) Ruled 0424 - 0404 BC|0336 BC
marr:
 Artaxerxes II Mnemon (Artakhshassa) of Darius II of Artaxerxes I|King|King of Persia 
 birt: 0456 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: 0359 BC/0358
marr:
 
   Associates of Prophet Nehemiah ben Hachaliah
   birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Tirshatha
deat: DECEASED
   Artaxerxes I (Longimanus) (Makrocheir) (Artakhshassa) of Xerxes I of Darius I|King|King of Persia 
   birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)||Artaxerxes by Plutarch|ARTAXERXES|437-359 B.C.|by Plutarch|translated by John Dryden||ARTAXERXES -|THE first Artaxerxes, among all the kings of Persia the most remarkable for a gentle and nobl|e spirit, was surnamed the Long-handed, his right hand being longer than his left, and was th|e son of Xerxes. The second, whose story I am now writing, who had the surname of the Mindful|, was the grandson of the former, by his daughter Parysatis, who brought Darius four sons, th|e eldest Artaxerxes, the next Cyrus, and two younger than these, Ostanes and Oxathres. Cyru|s took his name of the ancient Cyrus, as he, they say, had his from the sun, which, in the Pe|rsian language, is called Cyrus. Artaxerxes was at first called Arsicas; Dinon says Oarses; b|ut it is utterly improbable that Ctesias (however otherwise he may have filled his books wit|h a perfect farrago of incredible and senseless fables) should be ignorant of the name of th|e king with whom he lived as his physician, attending upon himself, his wife, his mother, an|d his children.||Cyrus, from his earliest youth, showed something of a headstrong and vehement character; Arta|xerxes, on the other side, was gentler in everything, and of a nature more yielding and sof|t in its action. He married a beautiful and virtuous wife, at the desire of his parents, bu|t kept her as expressly against their wishes.|...[MUCH MORE]|(http://www.4literature.net/Plutarch/Artaxerxes/)
deat: 0424 BC
plac: Persia (Iran) Ruled 0464 - 0424 BC
marr:
marr: Concubine
marr:
marr:
  Parysatis, daughter of Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I|Parysatis of Persia 
 birt: ABT 0475 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
marr:
 
   Nebuchadnezzar III of Nebuchadnezzar II of Nabopolassar|King
   birt: ABT 0585 BC
plac: Babylon
deat: DECEASED
  Andia (Andria), daughter of Nebuchadnezzar III of Nebuchadnezzar II 
 birt: ABT 0500 BC
plac: Babylon
deat: DECEASED
marr: Concubine
 AKA King (Artaxerxes II) Mnemon of Artaxerxes I 
birt: ABT 0456 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
 
 Stateira, daughter of Hydarnes 
birt: ABT 0450 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
marr:

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Associates of (Arses) Artaxerxes IV of Artaxerxes III

 
 Pharaonic Rulers of Egypt
 birt: 2920 BC
plac: Egypt
deat: 0332 BC
 Thirty-first Dynasty Pharaohs of Egypt 
 birt: 0343 BC
plac: Egypt
deat: 0332 BC
 Artaxerxes III (Ochus) (Artakhshassa) ben Artaxerxes II of Darius II|Pharaoh 
 birt: ABT 0425 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: 0338 BC
plac: Persia (Iran) Ruled 0343-0338 BC
marr:
 Artexerxes IV (Arses) of Artaxerxes III of Artaxerxes II|Pharaoh 
 birt: ABT 0475 BC
plac: Egypt
deat: 0336 BC
plac: Persia (Iran) Ruled 0338-0336 BC
 
   Darius II Nothos (Ochos) (Darayavahush) (Ochus) of Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I|King|Darius Nothus (Darius the Bastard)|King of Persia
   birt: 0475 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)|Darius is the Latin form of Dareios, the Greek for of a Persian name, Darayavahash, which mea|nt roughly "To be Rich" from "daraymiy" (to hold) and "vahu" (well); Italian: Dario; Spanish|: Dario.|Royalty:|Darius I the Great (584 BC-486 BC) -- King of Persia.|Darius II Ochus (?-404 BC) -- King of Persia.|Darius III Codommanus (?-330 BC) -- King of Persia. Last king of the Achaemenid dynasty. Defe|ated by Alexander the Great.
deat: 0404 BC
plac: Babylon (Iraq) Ruled 0424 - 0404 BC|0336 BC
marr:
   Artaxerxes II Mnemon (Artakhshassa) of Darius II of Artaxerxes I|King|King of Persia 
   birt: 0456 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: 0359 BC/0358
marr:
 
    Parysatis, daughter of Artaxerxes I of Xerxes I|Parysatis of Persia
   birt: ABT 0475 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
marr:
  Atossa, daughter of Artaxerxes II of Darius II|Princess 
 birt: ABT 0425 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
marr:
 
  Stateira, daughter of Hydarnes 
 birt: ABT 0450 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
marr:
 Associates of (Arses) Artaxerxes IV of Artaxerxes III 
birt:
deat: DECEASED

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AKA King (False Smerdis) Artaxerxes

 
 List of Kings
 birt:
deat:
 Pharaonic Rulers of Egypt 
 birt: 2920 BC
plac: Egypt
deat: 0332 BC
 Twenty-seventh Dynasty Pharaohs of Egypt 
 birt: 0525 BC
plac: Egypt
deat: 0404 BC
 False Smerdis (Guamata)|(Guamata)|King 
 birt: ABT 0550 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
plac: Egypt Ruled 0522 - 521 BC
 AKA King (False Smerdis) Artaxerxes 
birt: ABT 0550 BC
plac: Ezra 4:7|And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their compan|ions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syria|n tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.|8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxe|s the king in this sort:
deat: DECEASED

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AKA Prophet (Daniel) Belteshazzar ben Jacob

 
 Jeremiah ben Hilkiah ben Shallum I|Prophet
 birt: ABT 0650 BC
plac: |2Ch 35:25 -|And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josi|ah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, the|y are written in the lamentations.||2Ch 36:12 -|And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself befo|re Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.||2Ch 36:21 - 22|To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabba|ths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.|Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mout|h of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia|, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,||Ezr 1:1 -|Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jere|miah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he mad|e a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,||Dan 9:2 -|In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereo|f the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years i|n the desolations of Jerusalem.
deat: DECEASED
plac: CHAPTER XXXII4. p. 69|OF THE DEATH OF THE PROPHETS; HOW THEY DlED, AND (WHERE) EACH ONE OF THEM WAS BURIED5.||The Jews stoned Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah in Egypt, because he rebuked them for worshipp|ing idols; and the Egyptians buried him by the side of Pharaoh's palace. The Egyptians love|d him much, because he prayed and the beasts died which used to come up from the river Nile a|nd devour men. These beasts were called 'crocodiles.' When Alexander the son of Philip, the M|acedonian, came (to Egypt), he made enquiries about his grave, and took and brought him to Al|exandria. This (prophet) during his life said to the Egyptians, 'a child shall be born--tha|t is the Messiah--of a virgin, and He shall be laid in a crib2, and He will shake and cast do|wn the idols.' From that time, and until Christ was born, the Egyptians used to set a virgi|n and a baby in a crib, and to worship him, because of what Jeremiah said to them, that He sh|ould be born in a crib.||2 See Migne, Patrologiae Cursus, Ser. Gr., t. 43, col. 421; and the chapter on the going dow|n of our Lord into Egypt.|(http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/bb/bb32.htm)
 Associates of Prophet Jeremiah ben Hilkiah 
 birt: ABT 0650 BC
plac: Anatoth, Benjamin, Judea, Southern Israel
deat: DECEASED
 Prophetic Contemporaries of Jeremiah ben Hilkiah 
 birt: Anatoth, Benjamin, Judea, Southern Israel
deat: DECEASED
 Daniel (Belteshazzar) of Judah ben Jacob|Prophet 
 birt: ABT 0620 BC
plac: Daniel 1:6|Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: Unto w|hom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; a|nd to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.|CHAPTER XXXII4. p. 69|OF THE DEATH OF THE PROPHETS; HOW THEY DlED, AND (WHERE) EACH ONE OF THEM WAS BURIED5.||Habakkuk (was) of the tribe of Simeon, and from the land of Sûâr (Zoar)3. This (prophet) p|rophesied concerning the Messiah, that He should come, and abrogate the laws of the Jews. H|e brought food to Daniel at Babylon by the divine (or, angelic) agency. The Jews stoned him i|n Jerusalem.||3 Epiphanius, ἐξ ἀγρου̑ Βηθοχήρ {Greek: eks agrou Bhðoxhr}. A variant has Βιδζεχάρ {Greek|: Bidzexár}.||(http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/bb/bb32.htm)
deat: DECEASED
plac: CHAPTER XXXII4. p. 69|OF THE DEATH OF THE PROPHETS; HOW THEY DlED, AND (WHERE) EACH ONE OF THEM WAS BURIED5.||Daniel (was) of the tribe of Judah, and was born in Upper Beth-Horon. He was a man who kep|t himself from women, and hence the Jews thought that he was an eunuch, for his face was diff|erent (from that of other men), and he had no children. He prayed for the Babylonians, and di|ed in Elam, in the city of the Hôzâyê1, and was buried in Shôshan the fortress. He prophesie|d concerning the return of the people.||1 In Arabic al-Ahwâz, now Khûzistân.|(http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/bb/bb32.htm)
 AKA Prophet (Daniel) Belteshazzar ben Jacob 
birt: ABT 0620 BC
deat: DECEASED

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AKA King (Darius III) Darius the Persian

 
 Greco-Roman Rulers of Egypt
 birt: Egypt
deat: DECEASED
 Alexander III of Philip II of Amyntas III|King|King of Macedonia 
 birt: Jul 0356 BC
plac: Pella, Macedonia, Greece|Alexander by Plutarch|75 AD|ALEXANDER|356-323 B.C.|by Plutarch|translated by John Dryden|ALEXANDER -|IT being my purpose to write the lives of Alexander the king, and of Caesar, by whom Pompey w|as destroyed, the multitude of their great actions affords so large a field that I were to bl|ame if I should not by way of apology forewarn my reader that I have chosen rather to epitomi|ze the most celebrated parts of their story, than to insist at large on every particular circ|umstance of it. It must be borne in mind that my design is not to write histories, but lives.|...|(http://www.4literature.net/Plutarch/Alexander/)|Sacred Texts <../../index.htm> Judaism <../index.htm> Index Previous Next ||p. 8|ALEXANDER OF MACEDON|THE great conqueror Alexander the Macedonian, the son of Philip, who, at the instigation of t|he Persians, was assassinated by Pisanius, when yet a boy showed great thirst for conquest. W|hen he heard of his father's conquests he wept bitterly, complaining that by the time he assu|med the crown there would be so little for him to conquer. He was barely twenty years old whe|n he ascended the throne, but he knew well how to make his power felt. He soon conquered th|e Thracians, as well as the rebellious Thebans, and his heroic qualities developed so rapidl|y that he was appointed by the Greeks as military chief in their wars against the Persians. U|ninterrupted success followed his arms, and had he not died at a comparatively early age he w|ould probably have conquered what was then known as the whole world. His victory over the Per|sian General Memnon, on the river Granicus, in the North-West of Asia Minor, opened for him t|he road into the interior of further Asia. He was not slow to take advantage of the opportuni|ty, and pushed rapidly through the States of Asia Minor, through Lydia and Ionia to Pamphylia|. In the latter, near Issus, he gained a brilliant victory over Darius the Third, also know|n as Codomanus, who narrowly escaped death, leaving his mother, his wife and his children i|n the hands of the conqueror.|The Macedonian hero, with his troops intoxicated with victory after victory, now entered Syri|a, not so much in pursuit of Darius as with a view to extending|p. 9|his conquests. He took Damascus and Sidon, and attacked Tyre, so as to become master of the s|ea also.|That city, however, being very strongly fortified, and being on one side protected by the sea|, offered a stubborn resistance, and Alexander found himself compelled to embark on a long si|ege. In order to prevent any untoward event during the siege, Alexander was anxious to ensur|e immunity from the neighbouring State.|He therefore sent a message to Jerusalem, with a letter to the High Priest Jedua with the fol|lowing requests: (1) To supply him with troops; (2) to allow free traffic between the Macedon|ian army and Jerusalem; (3) to give him every possible assistance, such as had been granted t|o Darius. A hint was also thrown out that the High Priest would do well to consider whose fri|endship and goodwill was of greater value--that of the victor, or that of the vanquished.|The letter further expressed Alexander's anticipation of having these modest requests granted|, and assured the Jews that they would have no reason to regret compliance. The Jews could no|t but know that it would be greatly to their advantage to be on good terms with this famous h|ero, and that the beaten Persian could neither benefit nor injure them. Yet they did not fee|l justified in deserting the Persians. The High Priest therefore indited something like the f|ollowing answer:--|'Recognition and high esteem are undoubtedly due to so glorious a hero, yet for the present t|he Jews of Jerusalem cannot comply with his wishes, for these reasons: We Jews have promise|d our loyalty, on our oath, to Darius. So long as that Prince lives the oath has its force, a|nd the Jews could commit no sin so grievous as wilful perjury, seeing that one of their comma|ndments, with which God has entrusted them, is this: "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lor|d thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless|p. 10|that taketh His name in vain."' The High Priest moreover mentioned instances--such as Zedekia|h, the last King of Judah, who became disloyal to the Babylonian ruler, his former allegianc|e notwithstanding, and brought calamity upon himself and upon Judea. He further pointed out t|hat Moses' teaching tends to show that the God of Israel is a God of Truth, that treachery an|d untruth bring misfortune on those who practise them, and that it is incumbent on every tru|e adherent of the teaching of Moses to avoid all falsehood and duplicity. Alexander would per|haps have been satisfied with the explanation offered by the High Priest Jedua, had it not be|en for the Samaritans, who, whilst practising all sorts of idolatry, were at the same time an|xious to unite with the Jews, and to be considered as a portion of that body. When the Jews r|epudiated them, they sought to set up a temple of their own on the model of the Jerusalem Tem|ple. Menasseh, a brother of Jedua, formerly a priest, having married a Samaritan woman, the d|aughter of a Samaritan governor, was deprived of his office of priest in the temple, and wa|s naturally all the more anxious to set up an opposition temple, in which he could exercise h|is priestly function. The Samaritans therefore strained every nerve to excite Alexander's ill|will against the Jews, and to obtain his sanction for the erection of a temple on Mount Geriz|im.|Sanblat, the Governor of Samaria, and father-in-law of Menasseh, the expelled priest, sough|t audience of Alexander, and took the opportunity to give his version of the motives of Jedua|, the High Priest, in refusing Alexander's requests. He maintained that loyalty to Darius wa|s not the motive of the refusal, as the Jews, he said, knew nothing of loyalty, but, on the c|ontrary, would overthrow every throne not occupied by one of their own people if they had th|e power. He said that they were priest-ridden, and that if there were any who|p. 11|would join his (Alexander's) army, they dared not venture it, as that would exclude them fro|m participating in the Temple service, which to them meant moral death. If he (the Macedonian|) would only secure an alternative to the Jerusalem Temple by sanctioning the opposition Temp|le which the Samaritans were anxious to set up, this would bring large numbers from Jerusale|m to the new Temple; and the newcomers, no longer fearing exclusion from the Jerusalem servic|e, would gladly join with the Samaritans the banner of the great conqueror Alexander. It is p|erhaps not surprising that the Macedonian conqueror was much impressed with this plausible ve|rsion, especially when the Samaritans, as an earnest of their acceptance of and adhesion to t|he new state of affairs, deserted en masse the ranks of the crushed Darius, and went over t|o Alexander's army.|The desired permission for the building of the Gerizim Temple was granted, and the work was t|aken in band. Soon afterwards, however, the governor, who was a man of advanced age, died. Ty|re could no longer resist the severe siege, and, as predicted by the prophet (Is. 27), it cap|itulated. Indescribable slaughter and ravage took place within its walls; the town was laid i|n ruins, and its heroes were either slaughtered or taken as slaves.|Alexander now turned his attention to the punishment of the Jews, and started with his ever-v|ictorious army for Jerusalem. When the news of the approach of Alexander and his formidable a|rmy reached Jerusalem, there was consternation, and despair ruled supreme amongst the inhabit|ants, one and all. The Jews took refuge, as ever, in their religion; prayer, fasting, sackclo|th and ashes were the order of the day. Confession of sin and repentance were practised dail|y by almost every person. When Alexander was but about one day's distance from Jerusalem, th|e High Priest and Elders of the Temple had the streets of the|p. 12|city beautifully decorated, the public buildings as well as the private residences were magni|ficently adorned, and they ordered the inhabitants to form two lines in the streets--one oppo|site the other--the people to appear in their holiday attire. The gates of the city were bede|cked with garlands of the finest flowers, and triumphal arches were erected. The priests, th|e Levites and the Elders, at their head the venerable High Priest Jedua in full priestly robe|s, mitre, ephod and breastplate, made their way, towards evening, to the entrance of the city|, carrying torches and candles in their hands, and a light was thrown on the brilliant assemb|ly such as eclipsed the noonday brightness of a magnificent summer's day.|Soon after their arrival at the gate, Alexander, at the head of his army, made his appearance|. He was quite astonished at the sight that met his view, and seemed to be overwhelmed on beh|olding the grand and imposing assembly that came to meet him. When he saw the High Priest, wh|o looked even as an angel in his garments, Alexander dismounted, as though impelled by an ins|tinct, bowed himself reverently, and proclaimed aloud: 'Blessed be the God whose servant yo|u are.' His army, however, having anticipated plunder rather than the sight before them, coul|d ill conceal their bewilderment at the strange turn of affairs. They could hardly believe, o|n the evidence of their own senses, that their proud monarch should bend his head so humbly a|nd so reverently before the High Priest. One of Alexander's confidential and favourite office|rs, Parmenion by name, ventured at last to ask the King why he, the proud conqueror, showed s|uch marked honour and deference to the Jewish priest.|'Listen, then,' replied Alexander, 'and I will tell you of a wonderful experience of mine. Wh|ile I was still in Macedonia I often lay awake at night, when all else was at rest, thinkin|g of a plan by which to gain mastery|p. 13|of Asia. One evening, when my thoughts were more than usually occupied with this fond schem|e of mine, I fell, exhausted by this mental strain, into a deep slumber, and saw in a visio|n an awe-inspiring man standing before me. The very sight of him seemed to instil into me cou|rage and hope, and, as though reading my very thoughts, he advised me to cross the borders o|f Greece without further hesitation, and assured me of the success of my projected undertakin|g. That vision of mine was no myth, no nightmare, not the mere phantasy of a heated brain; fo|r not only have I, since that vision, never met with anything but victory, but in the hoar-he|aded and venerable servant of the Jewish God, in his attire and in his bearing, I see no othe|r than the man of my vision. Shall I not then revere the man who was the messenger of his Go|d to lead me to victory? I am equally convinced that my destiny is to overthrow Darius, and f|or that purpose I was called to undertake this venture, and the appearance of this holy man f|oretells complete success.' After this explanation, Alexander entered Jerusalem, accompanie|d by the Jewish dignitaries who came to meet him. He was welcomed and cheered throughout by t|he population of the city. His first request was to be taken to the Temple, where he anxiousl|y inquired concerning the ceremonies and sacrifices and the manner of the services.|His curiosity was gladly satisfied, and the High Priest directed his attention also to the pa|ssage in Daniel 8. 5, where it is foretold that a Greek ruler (which term the High Priest app|lied to Alexander) would overthrow the Persian kingdom, and Alexander was exceedingly please|d with all he saw and heard. The following day the Macedonian hero summoned all the priests a|nd elders, and asked them to tell him, without restraint and hesitation, what they wished o|f him as a token of his great satisfaction at the reception given him, and as a mark of his h|igh estimation of their|p. 14|services and organization. The High Priest, who was the spokesman, asked his Majesty to gran|t them the free and unhindered exercise of their religious rites, and to waive the payment o|f taxes in the Sabbatical year, when, according to the law of Moses, no agricultural pursuit|s were allowed, and consequently there was no revenue from their lands. This was at once gran|ted; but Alexander observed from Jedua's demeanour that there was some further favour he wish|ed to obtain, but that the good man was reluctant to name it. He therefore requested the Hig|h Priest to lay all his wishes before him. The High Priest then ventured to ask that the grea|t monarch might extend his permission regarding the exercise of the religious rites by his Je|wish subjects to all other parts of his wide dominions, such as Babylon and Media, and this w|as also cheerfully granted by the great Alexander. At the express wish of the Macedonian warr|ior, a large number of the most valiant of the Jewish community joined his army, and he gav|e them permission to follow their religious observances in the camp. As a further favour, Ale|xander requested that his likeness might be framed and placed in the Temple. It was pointed o|ut to him that the Jews were strictly forbidden to have pictures and likenesses of anything w|hatever in their places of worship, and, in lieu of this, it was suggested (1) that all mal|e children born in that year throughout Jerusalem should be named Alexander, and (2) that th|e Jews should adopt a new era called the Alexander Era. That era was to commence with Octobe|r 1 of the year 312 before the Christian era. This suggestion met with Alexander's approval|, and up to the eleventh century of the Christian era this method of reckoning the years wa|s actually in force, and was known as the Era of Documents. 1|With Alexander's entry into Jerusalem began a very|p. 15|considerable improvement in the condition of the Jews. 1 The Samaritans used every subterfug|e in order to be recognized as Jews by the Macedonian hero, so that they might enjoy the priv|ileges and advantages bestowed on the latter, but they failed to convince Alexander, who reme|mbered their efforts to prejudice him against the Jews, that they were of the same people. 'I|f you are indeed Jews,' he asked, 'how is it that you are not known by that name?' 'We are,|' they insisted, 'descendants of the Patriarch Jacob, and Israel's God is our God; but the Si|domites call us Samaritans, and we are also known to them by the name of Shechemites, after o|ur capital Shechem.'|Alexander was not satisfied with their answer, and told them that he could not recognize the|m as Jews, and to the Jews alone he had granted the privileges which the Samaritans sought t|o obtain. He asked them to leave the matter in abeyance till his return from the long journe|y he was about to undertake, and on his return he would thoroughly investigate their claim, a|nd then see that justice was done to them. The Samaritans were dissatisfied with Alexander'|s treatment of them, and they rebelled and burned the Governor Andromachus in his own palace|. Alexander's anger at this was very great; he returned, put to death the leaders, exiled a n|umber of Samaritans to Egypt, where they formed a colony in Thebais, and handed a large numbe|r of them over to the Jews as slaves, as a reward for their tried loyalty.|Alexander of Macedonia, be it remembered, was by no means a mere uncouth warrior whose knowle|dge did not extend beyond the narrow compass of the battlefield, for the vast dominion of ar|t and science was an open book to him. From his thirteenth to his eighteenth|p. 16|year he was a pupil of Aristotle, who guided him through all branches of wisdom and knowledge|, and inspired in him a love for Homer's works, which in fact he always carried with him. A|s a consequence, he naturally had a longing for intercourse with the educated and learned me|n of every place which he visited. Arrived in the South, his first step was to have the men d|istinguished for their wisdom brought before him. To them he put the following ten questions|: (1) Which is the longer distance--from the earth to the skies, or from the east of the worl|d to the west? Answer: The last-mentioned is the longer, because if the sun stands in the Eas|t or in the West, then he is perceived in the half of each sphere; but if he is in the centr|e of the sky, then he is not visible everywhere. Consequently he must be higher in the forme|r case than in the latter. (2) Which was created first--the heavens or the earth? Answer: Th|e Almighty clearly commenced His work with the heavens, for is it not said, 'In the beginnin|g God created the heavens and the earth'? (3) Who is truly wise? Answer: He who can foresee t|he result of his acts is truly a wise man. (4) Who is truly strong? Answer: Strength is in th|e possession of him who can overcome his passions. (5) Who can be considered truly rich? Answ|er: Truly rich is he who possesses contentment. (6) How can man acquire true life? Answer: Tr|ue life can be obtained by deadening one's passions. (7) What hastens man's death? Answer: In|dulgence in earthly pleasures. (8) How can man obtain the love of his fellow-men? Answer: B|y not seeking supremacy over them. Alexander felt himself hit by this answer, and said, 'I a|m not of your opinion in this respect. My idea is that, in order to obtain the love of one'|s fellow-man, one must acquire might and power, and use them with discretion.' (9) Which is t|he more agreeable abode--on land or water? Answer: Surely on land, because seafaring men ar|e not happy and contented|p. 17|till they reach land. (10) Who amongst you is considered the wisest? Answer: In this respec|t we are unable to give any one the preference, as you may have observed that our answers wer|e unanimous and simultaneous.|Alexander proceeded in argument with the wise men. 'Why,' he asked, 'are you so averse to hea|thenism, seeing that the heathens greatly outnumber you?' To which he received the reply tha|t it is just the multitude, the masses, who are apt to lose sight of truth, and it is only gi|ven to a comparative few to perceive and understand pure truth. 'But,' he continued, 'it is i|n my power to destroy the whole of you.' 'No doubt,' was the answer, 'you possess the power t|o do so, but we are not apprehensive on that point, having once received the promise of you|r protection.' He then consulted them concerning his projected journey to Africa. The wise me|n answered, 'That you cannot reach, as it lies beyond the dark mountains, which no human foo|t can traverse.' The king seemed to be piqued by this, and said, 'I do not ask you whethe|r I shall or can traverse those mountains. My mind is made up, and there is no resistance t|o my will. What I want to know is the best means known to man for undertaking this formidabl|e expedition.' The wise men advised him to the best of their knowledge. Part of their advic|e was to procure certain draught animals from Libya, which possess the faculty of seeing thei|r way in darkness. The king, having adopted all the necessary measures, started for Africa. H|e arrived at a place called the land of Amazon, whose inhabitants consisted only of women, t|o whom he sent a declaration of war. The women sent a message to him that a war with them cou|ld only be an inglorious one, inasmuch as if he were victorious a victory over women could no|t bring him either fame or honour; whereas if they should be victorious, that would surely br|ing disgrace upon him.|p. 18|The king saw the wisdom of their argument, and gave up the idea of war, but bade them suppl|y him with bread. The women brought him lumps of gold in the shape of loaves of bread. The ki|ng said in amazement 'Do you use this metal as bread?' They answered 'You surely have not com|e all this distance merely for bread; is there no bread in your own country?'|Alexander took his departure thence, but, before starting, he wrote on the gate of the city|: 'I, Alexander of Macedonia, was a simpleton until I arrived at this gate, where I learnt wi|sdom from women.' He next arrived at Katzia, where also he was met with presents of gold. '|I want no gold of yours,' said Alexander to the chief. 'And to what other purpose have you co|me all this great distance?' was the answer, given in the shape of a question. 'I have come,|' said Alexander, 'to become acquainted with your manners and customs, especially with your a|dministration of justice.'|A remarkable case of litigation happened to be in progress in the place at this time. A man w|ho had bought a house of another found in its precincts a treasure-trove, which he took bac|k to the seller, saying: 'This is yours; I bought the house only, and not what may be found i|n it.' The other, in refusing to accept the proffered treasure, argued that he sold the house|, and the buyer was the rightful owner of all that might be found in it. The judge gave his d|ecision that the son of the purchaser of the house should marry the daughter of the seller, a|nd the young couple should receive the treasure as a dowry. As Alexander expressed his wonde|r at and approval of the wise verdict, he was asked by the judge how a similar suit would b|e decided in his own country. 'In my country,' replied Alexander, 'the treasure would be take|n by the Crown, and both parties would be deterred by the threat of death from laying any cla|im to it.' 'How,' said the judge, 'have you also rain and sunshine in your|p. 19|country?' 'Surely,' replied Alexander. 'And you possess also animals and fowls?' 'Why not?' a|sked the Macedonian. 'Then,' remarked the judge, I must suppose that the purpose of the rai|n and sunshine in your land is to sustain those harmless creatures; for you, the human inhabi|tants, judging by your perverseness and injustice, are unworthy of such blessed gifts of natu|re.'|One day they arrived at a river, and as his servants were washing off the salt of the fish, w|hich they carried with them for their august master, in the water of the river, they saw tha|t life was returning to the fishes. When the marvellous event was reported to Alexander, he d|etermined to find the source of that river. He pursued his way, and at last found a gate, whe|re he demanded admittance. The answer he received to his demand was: 'This is the gate of th|e Lord; the righteous shall enter therein,' and he concluded that it must be the gate of Para|dise. As all his pleadings did not gain him admittance, he asked for some article from the pl|ace as a token of his having arrived there. A lump of gold in the shape of a human eye was ha|nded out to him, and on putting it in the scales to ascertain its remarkable weight, he foun|d that whatever weight he might put on the opposite scale, it would not turn the scale on whi|ch the golden eye was put. As soon as he met with the Rabbis again, he asked them to unriddl|e this remarkable thing. The Rabbis told him to put a little earth over the eye, and its weig|ht would vanish. They explained that the eye was a perfect type of the human eye, which, as t|he wise king tells us (Prov. 27.), is never satisfied, until a little earth is put over it (i|n death), and its everlasting hunger ceases. 1|p. 20|Alexander returned home from his great adventures through the wilderness and went to Egypt, w|here he built the city of Alexandria. He was anxious for the Jews, whom he held in high estee|m for their bravery and loyalty, to be among the settlers of the great city. Once, some Afric|an tribe and some descendants of Ishmael laid complaints before him against the Jews. The Afr|icans claimed the possession of Palestine, basing their claim on Numbers 34. 2 and on their b|eing descendants of Canaan; they maintained that they had an undisputed right to the countr|y of their ancestor. The sons of Ishmael, too, put in a claim to the possession of at leas|t a portion of Palestine, as the land was promised to their grandfather Abraham (Gen. 25. 13)|. And so the Egyptians bethought themselves of their claim against the Jews, and referred als|o to a Scriptural passage (Exod. 12. 36).|Alexander had the elders of the Jews summoned to him, and mentioned the claims of the respect|ive parties against them. The Jews selected one named Gebeha, son of Psisa, as their defender|. He faced the plaintiffs, and said: 'You have each based your claims on Scripture; I, too, w|ill plead against you out of the books of Moses, our lawgiver. Regarding the Canaanites, we h|ave it in Genesis 9. 25 that Canaan was cursed and was made a slave to his brothers. A slav|e can possess no property of his own. As to the demand of the Ishmaelites, we have it also o|n the same authority (Gen. 25. 5) that Abraham presented Isaac with all his possessions, an|d to the children of his concubines he made presents and sent them away from his son Isaac.|'Against the claims of the Egyptians, we have a huge counterclaim. The second book of Moses m|entions the|p. 21|time of the Jewish compulsory servitude in Egypt as 430 years. We are fully prepared to resto|re the value of what we carried away from Egypt, if the Egyptians will pay us the wages of 60|0,000 men, whom they compelled to work for them for the period mentioned.'|Alexander demanded a reply on the part of the three claimants against the Jewish arguments, w|ithin three days, if they did not wish to be punished for making fictitious claims.|Nothing more was heard of the claims. 1 The Jews rose in Alexander's esteem daily, and he gav|e them the most beautiful part of the city, on the banks of the river, as their quarter, an|d granted them the full rights of citizenship. The Jewish community increased greatly in weal|th and numbers. A year later, at the battle of Arbela, a town in Chaldea, Alexander entirel|y annihilated the Persian empire. After more wars and conquests, he died suddenly at the ag|e of thirty-three. His death was brought about as much by revelry as by his many cares and bo|dily exhaustion. Some of his generals contended for his throne; he was left unburied for som|e time, and eventually no royal burial was his portion. The Macedonian monarchy was divided a|mongst four of his generals.--Midr. Rabba Gen. 33; Lev. 27. and Tanchuma Emmor, etc.||Footnotes|14:1 See Rapoport's Erech Millin, page 73.|15:1 There is a difference in the dates mentioned in the Talmud. In Taanis it i|s stated as the 21st Kislev, and in Yoma 69 as the 28th of Tebeth.|19:1 This allegory was conspicuously applicable to Alexander's career and charact|er. However extensive were his conquests, he longed for more and was never satisfied, not eve|r after the p. 20 plundering of Asia, not after receiving, in consequence of his great conque|sts, the appellation of 'the great.' But with his death, his and his country's greatness ceas|ed, the monstrous possessions were cut up, and none of his kin ascended the throne.|21:1 Different dates are given for the above event. In Sanhed 91. it is given a|s the 24th of Nisson, and in Taanis as the 25th of Sivon.||Next: Demons |(http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tmm/tmm03.htm)
deat: 10 Jun 0323 BC
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 Associates of King Alexander III of Philip II 
 birt: ABT 0356 BC
plac: Macedon
deat: DECEASED
 
   Oxanthres of Darius II of Artaxerxes I|Prince|Prince of Persia
   birt: ABT 0450 BC
plac: Sogdia
deat: DECEASED
  Roxanna (Roxane) (Roxana), daughter of Oxathres of Darius II|Princess 
 birt: ABT 0400 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED
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 Darius III Codomannus of Arsames of Ostanes|King 
 birt: ABT 0380 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)|Neh 12:22|The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, [were] recorded chief o|f the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.
deat: 0332 BC
 AKA King (Darius III) Darius the Persian 
birt: ABT 0380 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)|Neh 12:22|The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, [were] recorded chief o|f the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.
deat: 0332 BC
 
 Stateira I, daughter of Arsames of Ostanes 
birt: ABT 0380 BC
plac: Persia (Iran)
deat: DECEASED

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 Prophetic Contemporaries of Jeremiah ben Hilkiah
 birt: Anatoth, Benjamin, Judea, Southern Israel
deat: DECEASED
 Urijah (Uriah) ben Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim|Prophet 
 birt: ABT 0625 BC
plac: |Jeremiah 26:20 -24|And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaia|h of Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to al|l the words of Jeremiah:|And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, t|he king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and we|nt into Egypt;|And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain m|en with him into Egypt.|And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who sle|w him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.|Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not gi|ve him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
deat: DECEASED
plac: Judah
 Associates of Prophet Urijah ben Shemaiah 
 birt: ABT 0625 BC
deat: DECEASED
 Jehoiakim (Eliakim) (Elizkim Jechonais) ben Josiah II ben Amon|King|King of Judah 
 birt: ABT 0625 BC
plac: Judah, Judea, Southern Israel|Jeremiah 1:3|Contemporary of Jeremiah, Jehoiakim was the son of Josiah.|1 Chr 3:15|And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah|, the fourth Shallum.|2 Kgs 23:34-37|34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, a|nd turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there|.|35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the m|oney according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the peopl|e of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh-nechoh.|36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven year|s in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.|37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father|s had done.|Daniel 1:1-2|IN the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylo|n unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.||And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the hous|e of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought th|e vessels into the treasure house of his god.
deat: 0597 BC
marr:
 AKA King (Jehoiakim) Eliakim ben Joash 
birt: ABT 0625 BC
plac: Judah, Judea, Southern Israel
deat: DECEASED
 
  Associates of King Jehoiakim ben Josiah
  birt: ABT 0625 BC
deat: DECEASED
  Those who pleaded with Jehoiakim ben Josiah 
  birt: Jer 36:25
plac: Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and GEMARIAH had made intercession to the king that he woul|d not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.
deat: DECEASED
  Elnathan ben Achbor ben Michaiah|Courtier 
  birt: ABT 0650 BC
deat: DECEASED
 Nehushta bint Elnathan ben Achbor 
birt: ABT 0625 BC
plac: |2Ki 24:8 -|Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three m|onths. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
deat: DECEASED
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AKA King (Josiah II) Joash II ben Amon

 
 Scribes of Prophet Jeremiah ben Hilkiah
 birt: Anatoth, Benjamin, Judea, Southern Israel
deat: DECEASED
 Baruch (Barukh) ben Neriah ben Maaseiah|Prophet Scribe 
 birt: ABT 0624 BC
plac: |Jer. 36: 26|But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and She|lemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hi|d them.||Jer. 43:6|Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzarada|n the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and J|eremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah. [were carried into Egypt]|BOOK OF BARUCH|An outline of the Book of Baruch||1:1-1:10 A letter to Jerusalem|1:11-1:14 Baruch and the Jews in Babylon|1:15-2:10 Confession of Sins||2:11-2:26 Prayer for Deliverance|2:27-3:8 God's Promise Recalled||3:9-4:4 In Praise of Wisdom||4:5-4:29 Encouragement for Israel|4:30-5:9 Jerusalem Is Assured of Help||6:1 The Letter of Jeremiah|6:2-6:7 The People Face a Long Captivity|6:8-6:39 The Helplessness of Idols|6:40-6:73 The Foolishness of Worshiping Idols|(http://www.catholicdoors.com/outline/o-bar.htm)
deat: DECEASED
 Associates of Prophet Scribe Baruch ben Neriah 
 birt: ABT 0625 BC
deat: DECEASED
 Josiah II (Joash) (Josias) ben Amon ben Manasseh|King|King of Judah (640 BC) 
 birt: ABT 0650 BC
plac: Judah, Judea, Southern Israel||1 Chr 3:14|Amon his son, Josiah his son.||One source lists a birth date of 0649 BC||2 Kings 21: 24-26|24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the peo|ple of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.|25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chr|onicles of the kings of Judah?|26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in hi|s stead.||2 Chr. 33:25|But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the peopl|e of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.||Matt 1:10|And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias
deat: 0609 BC
plac: Megiddo
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 AKA King (Josiah II) Joash II ben Amon 
birt: ABT 0650 BC
plac: Judah, Judea, Southern Israel
deat: ABT 0609 BC
 
 Zebudah bint Pedaiah of Rumah 
birt: ABT 0650 BC
plac: |2 Kgs 23:36|36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven year|s in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
deat: DECEASED
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