Davidic line

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Isaiah ( or ; , Yəšaʿyāhū, "Yahweh is salvation"; also known as Isaias or Esaias from ) was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named.

messianic dimension of Jesus, biblical figure and title

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Jewish religious leader of the 1st century

accounts of the ancestry of Jesus found in the Gospel of Matthew and in the Gospel of Luke

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lineage to King David in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament

broken stele (inscribed stone) discovered in 1993–94 during excavations at Tel Dan in northern Israel

thumb|250px|An exhibit depicting Exilarch Rav Huna|Huna at the [[Beit Hatfutsot]] The exilarch was the leader of the Jewish community in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) during the Parthian and Sasanian Empires and Abbasid Caliphate up until the 1258 CE Mongol invasion of Baghdad, with intermittent gaps due to ongoing political developments. The exilarch was regarded by the Jewish community as the royal heir of the Davidic line and held prominence as both a rabbinical authority and a noble within the Persian and Arab courts.

There are two biblical characters named Abihud. One of the sons of Bela, the son of Benjamin; called also Ahihud (1 Chronicles 8:3,7). A son or grandson of Zerubbabel, and member of the Davidic line. Abihud was the father of Eliakim (Matthew 1:13, "Abiud"), and possibly the same as Obadiah (1 Chronicles 3:21).

thumb|"Joash is rescued by his aunt Jehosheba", print by Harmen Jansz Muller, c. 1565–69; the pair are visible at far left Jehosheba (alternately Jehoshabeath; Yəhōšeḇa‘, "Yahweh is an oath"), or Josaba, is a figure in the Hebrew Bible. She was the daughter of King Jehoram of Judah, sister to King Ahaziah of Judah and wife of Jehoiada the priest. She was a daughter of Jehoram, but not necessarily of Athaliah. After the death of Ahaziah, his mother, Athaliah, made herself Queen of Judah and ordered the execution of all members of the royal family that could claim the throne. However, according

Hephzibah or Hepzibah ( or ; ) is a minor figure in the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible. She was the wife of Hezekiah, king of Judah (reigned 715 and 686 BCE), and the mother of Manasseh of Judah (reigned 687–643 BCE).

female human biblical figure in 2 Kings 18:2, daughter of Zechariah

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The Benveniste family is an old, noble, wealthy, and scholarly Sephardic Jewish family of Narbonne, France, and northern Spain established in the 11th century. The family was present in the 11th to the 15th centuries in Hachmei Provence, France, Barcelona, Aragon, and Castile.

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right|thumb|Coat of arms The Abravanel family ( ʾAbravanʾēl or ʾAbarbənʾēl), also spelled as Abarbanel, Abrabanel, Avravanel, Barbernell, or Barbanel literally meaning Ab ("father") rabban ("priest") el ("of God") is one of the oldest and most distinguished Jewish families. It first achieved prominence on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. Its members claim to trace their origin to the biblical King David. Members of this family lived in Seville, Córdoba (Spanish province), Castile-Leon, and Calatayud. Seville is where its most prominent representative, Don Judah Abravanel, once dwe

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