Elah
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Vinony's link graph records 110 inbound references to Elah, and connects out to Baasha, Latin and Greek.
It sits within the topics 880s BC deaths, 9th-century BCE kings of Israel and 9th-century BC murdered monarchs.
Vinony links it to 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Reign
- 886–885 BCE
- Predecessor
- Baasha
- Successor
- Zimri
- Died
- c. 885 BC
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Given name
- Ela
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Israel
- Place of death
- Tirzah
- Father
- Baasha
- Occupation
- sovereign
- Image
- Elah Rex.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1000-01-01
- different from
- Ela
- date of death
- 0960-00-00
- present in work
- 1 Kings 16
- described by source
- Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
- killed by
- Zimri
- Commons category
- Elah (king)
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Encyclopedic overview
Elah (Hebrew: אֵלָה ’Ēlā; Greek: Ἠλά; Latin: Ela) was the fourth king of Israel, the son and successor of Baasha. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 877–876 BCE, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 886–885 BCE.
Chapter 16 of 1 Kings relates how Elah and all his family members were murdered by his chariot commander Zimri, who became his successor.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.