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19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah? 20His servants arose, devised a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. 21It was Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so
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26Those who conspired against him were Zabad son of Shimeath the Ammonite, and Jehozabad son of Shimrith the Moabite. 27Accounts of his sons, and of the many oracles against him, and of the rebuilding[56] of the house of God are written in the Commentary on the Book of the Kings. And his son Amaziah succeeded him.
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
34Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and changed his name to Jehoiakim.
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Gaius Julius Zoilos
Mary Beard • SPQR
Heaped treasure cannot be kept for long. Pride from success sows the seeds of collapse.
Laozi • Laozi's Dao De Jing
21[39] Jehoash[40] was seven years old when he began to reign. 2 Kings 12 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 2Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the LORD all his days, because the priest Jehoiada instructed him. 3Nevertheless the high places
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In the end Zuo was victorious in the "great policy debate" and won permission to launch a very expensive campaign to crush Ya`qub Beg's emirate and reconquer Xinjiang for the Qing, which he did by 1877.
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Yang's successor, Jin Shuren,
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
The implications of Suillius’ attack were that Seneca was not only very wealthy, but wealthy despite an entirely false claim to be “philosophical,” and wealthy at the expense of other citizens. Legacy-hunting was a common corrupt practice in Rome at the time, memorably depicted in literary texts such as Petronius’ Satyricon, in which the central
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