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SHAREZER

(Heb. śarʾeṣer)

1. One of the two sons of Sennacherib who murdered the Assyrian king (2 Kgs. 19:37 = Isa. 37:38), plunging the empire into a short dynastic crisis until the youngest son, Esarhaddon, returned from exile and assumed the throne in 680 b.c.e. Other than the Bible, however, there is no Mesopotamian source for the names of these sons, although the murder of Sennacherib at the hand of his own sons is apparently historical (Nabonidus inscription; ANET, 309). Based on the construction of Akkadian names, Sharezer here is only a partial name (“[The God X] protect the king” = šar-uṣur), and a divine name should be included (e.g., Nebu, thus Nebusharezer).

2. One of the emissaries sent by the people of Bethel in 518 to ask about continuing to fast (more frequent fasting was instituted after the Exile; Zech. 7:2). Many scholars suggest that the text should actually read Bethelsharezer, “May Bethel (the deity) protect the King.”

Daniel L. Smith-Christopher






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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