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Lexicon :: Strong's H7223 - ri'šôn

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רִאשׁוֹן
Transliteration
ri'šôn
Pronunciation
ree-shone'
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Part of Speech
adjective, adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2097c

Strong’s Definitions

רִאשׁוֹן riʼshôwn, ree-shone'; or רִאשֹׁן riʼshôn; from H7221; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun):—ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 185x

The KJV translates Strong's H7223 in the following manner: first (129x), former (26x), former things (6x), beginning (4x), chief (3x), before (3x), old time (2x), foremost (3x), aforetime (1x), miscellaneous (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 185x
The KJV translates Strong's H7223 in the following manner: first (129x), former (26x), former things (6x), beginning (4x), chief (3x), before (3x), old time (2x), foremost (3x), aforetime (1x), miscellaneous (8x).
adjective

  1. first, primary, former

    1. former (of time)

      1. ancestors

      2. former things

    2. foremost (of location)

    3. first (in time)

    4. first, chief (in degree)

      adverb

  2. first, before, formerly, at first

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רִאשׁוֹן riʼshôwn, ree-shone'; or רִאשֹׁן riʼshôn; from H7221; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun):—ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
STRONGS H7223: Abbreviations
רִאשׁוֺן 182 adjective former, first, chief (i heightened from original a, see √); — absolute ר׳ Hosea 2:19 +, שֹׁן- Exodus 12:15 +, רִישׁוֺן Job 8:8, construct רִאשׁוֺן Job 15:7 Qr (Kt ראישון and so always Manuscript Sam. Pentateuch, see Köii. 1, 225 n); feminine רִאשֹׁנָה Judges 20:37 + (Joshua 21:10 Kt ראישנה see above); masculine plural רִאשֹׁנִים Exodus 34:1 +, feminine plural רִאשֹׁנוֺת Isaiah 41:22 +, etc.; —
1. former:
a. in time, former of two Genesis 25:25 (J), Genesis 41:20 (E), Deuteronomy 10:1, 2, 3, 4, 10; Deuteronomy 24:4, compare Hosea 2:9; Leviticus 4:21; Leviticus 9:15 (both P), Judges 20:39; 2 Kings 1:14; Haggai 2:3, 9; Ezra 3:12 +; more generally former, previous, Numbers 21:26 (JE), Micah 4:8; 2 Kings 17:34, 40; Zechariah 1:4; Zechariah 7:7, 12; Zechariah 8:11; Nehemiah 5:15; Eccl 17:10; Psalm 79:8 +; כָּעֵת הָ ר׳ Isaiah 8:23; דִּבְרֵי דויד הָ ר׳ 1 Chronicles 29:29 the doings of David, the former and the latter (הָאַחֲדֹנִים), compare 2 Chronicles 9:29; 12:15; 16:11; 20:34; 25:26; 26:22; 28:26; 35:27; early days of harvest 2 Samuel 21:9; רִאשֹׁנִים as substantive, former persons, ancestors, men of old, Deuteronomy 19:14; Leviticus 26:45 (H), Ecclesiastes 1:11 (opposed to אַחֲרֹנִים); (תָ)רִאשֹׁנוֺת as substantive the former things, i.e. past events Isaiah 41:22; Isaiah 43:9, 18; Isaiah 46:9; Isaiah 48:3, earlier predictions Isaiah 42:9.
b. location, foremost, of two 2 Samuel 18:27.
2. first:
a. in time, הַמַּכָּה הָ ר׳ 1 Samuel 14:14 the first slaughter (preliminary to general carnage); וְלֹאהָֿיָה דְּבָרִי ר׳ 2 Samuel 19:44 was not my word first? ר׳ in apposition with person subject 2 Samuel 19:21 I am come as first, compare perhaps Isaiah 41:27 (insert אָמַרְתִּי Ges De < read הִגַּדְתִּים for הִנֵּה הִנָּם CheHpt Kit Di), and הָ ר׳ Jeremiah 50:17 (opposed to הָאַחֲרוֺן), Isaiah 43:27; ר׳ absolute, first of mankind Job 15:17; absolute of י׳, I (an the) first Isaiah 41:4 (+אֶתֿ אַחֲדֹנִים), + אַחְרוֺן Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 48:12; absolute of time, מֵרִאשׁוֺן Jeremiah 17:12 from the beginning; especially first of a def. series (sometimes opposed to אַחֲרוֺן). first day of feast Deuteronomy 16:4; Exodus 12:15 (twice in verse); Exodus 12:16 + 5 times P (H), Nehemiah 8:18, usually first month (חֹרֶשׁ) Exodus 40:2, 17; Leviticus 23:5 + 6 times P, 1 Chronicles 12:16 (van d. H. 1 Chronicles 12:15) + 10 times Chronicles, Ezra, Esther 3:7; Daniel 10:4, חֹדֶשׁ omitted Genesis 8:13; Exodus 12:2, 18; Numbers 9:5 (all P) Ezekiel 29:17; Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 45:18, 21, so Joel 2:23, but read כָּרִאשׁוֺנָה (3a) Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version We Now and Dr.
b. first in degree, chief: יַד רִאשׁוֹנָה ֗֗֗ הַשָּׂרִים Ezra 9:2 the hand of the princes... has been first in this trespass; 1 Chronicles 18:17; Daniel 10:13 (Chronicles, Esther 1:14 below).
3.
a. feminine with preposition as adverb phrase:
(1) of time, בָּרִאשֹׁנָה Genesis 13:4 (J), = before, formerly, so Joshua 8:5, 6 (JE), 2 Samuel 7:10; 2 Samuel 20:18; Jeremiah 7:12; Isaiah 52:4, לָר׳ = before, formerly, Genesis 28:19 (J), Judges 18:29; so כְּבָר׳ as formerly Judges 20:32; 1 Kings 13:6; Isaiah 1:26; Jeremiah 33:7, 11, = כָּ ר׳ Deuteronomy 9:15; Daniel 11:29 (opposed to כָּאַחֲרוֺנָה); בָּר = at first, first of all, Deuteronomy 13:10; Deuteronomy 17:7; Numbers 10:13 (P) Joshua 8:33 (D), 1 Kings 17:13; 1 Kings 20:9; Zechariah 12:7; Proverbs 20:21 (opposed to אַחֲרִיתָהּ), 1 Chronicles 11:6 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 17:9; Nehemiah 7:5; לְמַבָּרִאשׁוֺנָה 1 Chronicles 15:13 (= לְמַהבָּֿר׳) for what was at first, etc. (מָךְ 1e);
(2) location, בָּר׳ i.e. at the head of an army 1 Kings 20:17, a procession Numbers 10:14 (P), compare Isaiah 60:9.
b. רִאשֹׁנָה alone as adverb:
(1) of time first Genesis 38:28 (J), 1 Kings 18:25; Jeremiah 16:18; Leviticus 5:8; Numbers 2:9; Joshua 21:10 (all P), Isaiah 65:7 (Ew De Che Di Du Skinner, >adjective Ges Hi Kn);
(2) of place Genesis 33:2 (J);
(3) of degree, rank, Esther 1:14.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:13; 13:4; 25:25; 28:19; 33:2; 38:28; 41:20

Exodus

12:2; 12:15; 12:15; 12:16; 12:18; 34:1; 40:2; 40:17

Leviticus

4:21; 5:8; 9:15; 23:5; 26:45

Numbers

2:9; 9:5; 10:13; 10:14; 21:26

Deuteronomy

9:15; 10:1; 10:2; 10:3; 10:4; 10:10; 13:10; 16:4; 17:7; 19:14; 24:4

Joshua

8:5; 8:6; 8:33; 21:10; 21:10

Judges

18:29; 20:32; 20:37; 20:39

1 Samuel

14:14

2 Samuel

7:10; 18:27; 19:21; 20:18; 21:9

1 Kings

13:6; 17:13; 18:25; 20:9; 20:17

2 Kings

1:14; 17:34; 17:40

1 Chronicles

11:6; 12:15; 12:16; 15:13; 17:9; 18:17; 29:29

2 Chronicles

9:29; 12:15; 16:11; 20:34; 25:26; 26:22; 28:26; 35:27

Ezra

3:12; 9:2

Nehemiah

5:15; 7:5; 8:18

Esther

1:14; 1:14; 3:7

Job

8:8; 15:7; 15:17

Psalms

79:8

Proverbs

20:21

Ecclesiastes

1:11

Isaiah

1:26; 41:4; 41:22; 41:22; 41:27; 42:9; 43:9; 43:18; 43:27; 44:6; 46:9; 48:3; 48:12; 52:4; 60:9; 65:7

Jeremiah

7:12; 16:18; 17:12; 33:7; 33:11; 50:17

Ezekiel

29:17; 30:20; 45:18; 45:21

Daniel

10:4; 10:13; 11:29

Hosea

2:9; 2:19

Joel

2:23

Micah

4:8

Haggai

2:3; 2:9

Zechariah

1:4; 7:7; 7:12; 8:11; 12:7

H7223

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Strong's Number H7223 matches the Hebrew רִאשׁוֹן (ri'šôn),
which occurs 182 times in 174 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Deu 19:14–2Ch 29:3)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 - Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time H7223 have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - Her former H7223 husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:19 - And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first H7223 month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:5 - And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, H7223 that we will flee before them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:6 - (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: H7223 therefore we will flee before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:33 - And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, H7223 that they should bless the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:10 - Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first H7223 H7223 lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:29 - And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first. H7223

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:22 - And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first H7223 day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:32 - And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. H7223 But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:39 - And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first H7223 battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:10 - And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, H7223 inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - And that first H7223 slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:30 - And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former H7223 manner.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 7:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:10 - Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime, H7223

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27 - And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost H7223 is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:20 - For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first H7223 this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first H7223 had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:18 - Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, H7223 saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:9 - And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first H7223 days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:6 - And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before. H7223

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:13 - And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, H7223 and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:25 - And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; H7223 for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:9 - Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first H7223 I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:17 - And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; H7223 and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 1:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:14 - Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former H7223 fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:34 - Unto this day they do after the former H7223 manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:40

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:40 - Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former H7223 manner.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:2 - Now the first H7223 inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:6 - And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first H7223 shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first H7223 up, and was chief.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:15 - These are they that went over Jordan in the first H7223 month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:13 - For because ye did it not at the first, H7223 the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:9 - Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning, H7223

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:17 - And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief H7223 about the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:7 - Now the first H7223 lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 25:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:9 - Now the first H7223 lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 27:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:2 - Over the first H7223 course for the first H7223 month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 27:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:3 - Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first H7223 month.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:29 - Now the acts of David the king, first H7223 and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:3 - Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first H7223 measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:29 - Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first H7223 and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:15 - Now the acts of Rehoboam, first H7223 and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:11 - And, behold, the acts of Asa, first H7223 and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first H7223 ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:34 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first H7223 and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:1 - And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. H7223 So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:26 - Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first H7223 and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 26:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:22 - Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first H7223 and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:26 - Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first H7223 and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:3 - He in the first H7223 year of his reign, in the first H7223 month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

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