Key facts
- Reign
- 41 years, 793–753 BC, or, 786–746 BC
- Predecessor
- Jehoash
- Successor
- Zechariah
- Father
- Jehoash
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Israel
- Place of death
- Samaria
- Child
- Zechariah of Israel
- Father
- Jehoash
- Occupation
- monarch
- Image
- Jeroboam II.jpg
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- date of death
- 0753-00-00
- date of birth
- 0850-00-00
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Jeroboam II (Hebrew: יָרָבְעָם, Yāroḇʿām; Greek: Ἱεροβοάμ; Latin: Hieroboam/Jeroboam), also referred to as Jeroboam son of Jehoash, was the successor of Jehoash (alternatively spelled Joash) and the thirteenth king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, over which he ruled for forty-one years in the eighth century BC. His reign was contemporary with those of Amaziah and Uzziah, kings of Judah. Jeroboam is the fourth king of the House of Jehu and the longest-reigning king of the kingdom of Israel in Samaria. He is described as a military commander who fought Syria.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jeroboam II” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.