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REZEPH

(Heb. reṣep)

A town included in a list read by a messenger of the Assyrian king Sennacherib to King Hezekiah of Judah (2 Kgs. 19:12 = Isa. 37:12). The list consisted of cities destroyed by the Assyrians in earlier campaigns and suggests that Rezeph (Akk. Raṣappa) may be located in the vicinity of a northern tributary system of the Euphrates River. The message was intended to undermine the will to resist the invading Assyrian army. Most likely Rezeph was incorporated into the Assyrian Empire by Shalmaneser III (858-824 b.c.). The town then became an important trading center and was a provincial capital within the empire.

C. Shaun Longstreet






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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