Jehu: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Yehu
Flourished	c.900 BCE - c.801 BCE

Moses and the Ten Commandments

Moses

Hebrew prophet

Samuel

Samuel

Hebrew prophet

King Saul

Saul

king of Israel

József Molnár: The March of Abraham

Abraham

Hebrew patriarch

The Construction of the Tower of Babel

Nimrod

biblical figure

Elijah being led to his confrontation with Ahab, 17th-century engraving

Ahab

king of Israel

Jonathan and David

Jonathan

biblical figure

Jacob

Jacob

Hebrew patriarch

Samson, muscular and draped in a patterned cloth, pushes apart two large pillars as a young man clings to him, with onlookers reacting in the background.

Samson

biblical figure

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Ishbosheth

king of Israel

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Menahem

king of Israel

David slays Goliath

Goliath

biblical figure

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Elijah

Hebrew prophet

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Jehoram

king of Israel

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Joab

biblical figure

Painting by James Jacques Joseph Tissot showing Joshua in ancient armor, raising his arm and shield, with an army and battlefield in the background.

Joshua

Hebrew leader

Gilded bronze relief panel by Lorenzo Ghiberti shows Isaac, Jacob, and Esau in an architectural setting, with multiple figures and intricate detail, from the Gates of Paradise in Florence.

Isaac

Hebrew patriarch

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Hoshea

king of Israel

David

David

king of Israel

The prophet Isaiah

Isaiah

Hebrew prophet

Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon in Coronation Robes or Napoleon I Emperor of France, 1804 by Baron Francois Gerard or Baron Francois-Pascal-Simon Gerard, from the Musee National, Chateau de Versailles.

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