Jehu (Prophet)

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Jehu was an Old Testament prophet . He lived in the 9th century BC. According to the 1st book of kings ( 1 Kings 16 : 1  LUT ), he was a son of Hanani.

etymology

The Hebrew personal name יֵהוּא jehû ' "Jehu" is an identifying nominal sentence name, consisting of subject and predicate. The subject (and at the same time theophoric element) is " YHWH ", the predicate is the personal pronounהוּא hû ' , German ' he ' . The name can therefore be translated as "YHWH is he". It can be understood as a kind of creed ("YHWH it is / YHWH is that"). The Septuagint gives the name as Ιου Iu , the Vulgate as Hieu . The Assyrian form of the name is Jaua .

Biblical narration

Jehu's speeches preserved in the Old Testament were directed against Bascha , king of Israel ( 1 Kings 16  LUT ), and Joschafat , king of Judah ( 2 Chr 29  LUT ), whose historian he was probably also ( 2 Chr 20.34  LUT ).

See also

literature

  • Susanne Otto : Jehu, Elia and Elisa. The story of the Jehu revolution and the composition of the Elijah-Elisha stories ; Contributions to the Science of the Old and New Testament, 152; Stuttgart u. a. 2001; ISBN 978-3-17-016764-3
  • Georg Hentschel : 1 Kings ; The New Real Bible. Commentary on the Old Testament with the standard translation 10; Würzburg 1984; ISBN 3-429-00904-9
  • Georg Hentschel: 2 kings ; The New Real Bible. Commentary on the Old Testament with the standard translation 11; Würzburg 1985; ISBN 3-429-00909-X
  • Jonathan Robker:  Jehu. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
  • Ernst Würthwein : 1/2 Kings : Old Testament German 11.1 / 2; Göttingen 1977, 1984

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Rechenmacher : Old Hebrew names, Münster 2012, p. 44.101.109.
personal data
SURNAME Jehu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Old Testament prophet
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 9th century BC Chr.