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Amitai
Baruchi-Unna considers it likely that Jehu actually was a descendant of Omri, and that his recorded hostility towards the so-called "House of Ahab" represents a fight for the throne between rival branches of the House of Omri. Both Books of Kings and the second of the
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Himself proclaimed that four generations of Jehu's descendants would hold the throne of Israel, but then the dynasty would lose the throne as punishment for Jehu's idolatry (2 Kings 15:12). Jehu reigned for 28 years.
683:. Jehoash is credited with victories over the kingdom of Aram-Damascus, and with freeing the Kingdom of Israel from its subordination to the monarchs of Damascus. Jehoash was reportedly allied to the prophet
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to the monarchs of Aram-Damascus. He was reportedly a poor administrator, and the Book of Kings associates his reign with "great suffering" for his kingdom. He reigned for 17 years.
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of Syria and reclaimed territories that the
Kingdom of Israel had lost in previous conflicts. Israel's political power increased during his reign. Jeroboam reigned for 41 years.
764:", an apparent member of the House of Omri. In the Assyrian inscriptions, the designation "son of" is used to connect various rulers to the ancestral founders of each
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Neo-Assyrian
Historical Inscriptions and Syria-Palestine: Israelite/Judean-Tyrian-Damascene Political and Commercial Relations in the Ninth-Eighth Centuries BCE
825:. This means that Marduk-bêl-usâte was a member of the same dynasty as his brother. The royal ancestry of these usurpers was deliberately ignored by Assyrian
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790:. His great-grandfather is not mentioned in the text. Nadav Na'aman concedes that Jehu could have been a kinsman of his predecessor
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in order to recover from his wounds, but Jehu attacked and killed him there. Jehu also killed
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Jehoram were enemies of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and had repeatedly participated in the military
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