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JEHU , son of Jehoshapha't+ and See also:grandson of Nimshi, in the See also:Bible, a See also:general of See also:Ahab and See also:Jehoram, and, later, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Israel. See also:Ahaziah son of Jehoram of See also:Judah and Jehoram See also:brother of Ahaziah of Israel had taken See also:joint See also:action against the Aramaeans of See also:Damascus who were attacking Ramoth-See also:Gilead under Hazael. Jehoram had returned wounded to his See also:palace at See also:Jezreel, whither Ahaziah had come down to visit him. Jehu, meanwhile, remained at the seat of See also:war, and the See also:prophet See also:Elisha sent a messenger to anoint him king. The general at once acknowledged the See also:call, " drove furiously " to Jezreel, and, having slain both See also:kings, proceeded to exterminate the whole of the royal See also:family (2 Kings ix., x.). A similar See also:fate befell the royal princes of Judah (see ATIIALIAH), and thus, for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time at least, the new king must have had See also:complete See also:control over the two kingdoms (cf. 2 Chron. xxii. g). Israelite historians viewed these events as a See also:great religious revolution inspired by See also:Elijah and initiated by Elisha, as the overthrow of the See also:worship of See also:Baal, and as a retribution for the cruel See also:murder of Naboth the Jezreelite (see See also:JEZEBEL). A vivid description is given of the destruction of the prophets of Baal at the See also:temple in See also:Samaria (2 Kings x. 27; contrast iii. 2). While Jehu was supported by the See also:Rechabites in his reforming zeal, a similar revolt against Baalism in Judah is ascribed to the See also:priest Jehoiada (see See also:JOASH). In the tragedies of the See also:period it seems clear that Elisha's See also:interest in both Jehu and the Syrian Hazael (2 Kings viii. 7 sqq.) had some See also:political significance, and in opposition to the " Deuteronomic " the See also:commendation in 2 Kings x. 28 sqq., See also:Hosea's denunciation (i. 4) indicates the See also:judgment which was passed upon Jehu's bloodshed in other circles.
In the course of an expedition against Hazael in 842 See also:Shalmaneser II. of See also:Assyria received See also:tribute of See also:silver and See also:gold from Ya-u-a son of See also:Omri,t See also:Tyre and See also:Sidon; another attack followed in 839. For some years after this Assyria was unable to interfere, and war See also:broke out between Damascus and Israel. The Israelite See also:story, which may perhaps be supplemented from Judaean See also:sources (see JoASK), records a great loss of territory on the See also:east of the See also:Jordan (2 Kings x. 32 seq.). Under Jehu's successor Jehoahaz there was continual war with Hazael and his son See also:Ben-See also:hadad, but See also:relief was obtained by his grandson Joash, and the See also:land recovered complete See also:independence under See also:Jeroboam.
Jehu is also the name of a prophet of the time of Baasha and Je oshaphat (1 Kings xvi. ; 2 Chron. xix., xx.). (S. A. C.) JEKYLL, See also:SIR See also:JOSEPH (1663–1738), See also:English lawyer and See also:master of the rolls, son of See also:John Jekyll, was See also:born in See also:London, and after studying at the See also:Middle Temple was called to the See also:bar in 1687. He rapidly See also:rose to be See also:chief See also:justice of See also:Chester (1697), See also:serjeant-atlaw and king's serjeant (1700), and a See also:knight. In 1717 he was made master of the rolls. A Whig in politics, he sat in See also:parliament for various constituencies from 1697 to the end of his See also:life, and took an active See also:part there in debating constitutional questions with much learning, though, according to See also:Lord See also:Hervey (Mem. 1, 474), with little " approbation." He was censured by the See also:House of See also:Commons for accepting a brief for the See also:defence of Lord See also:Halifax in a See also:prosecution ordered by the house. He was one of the managers of the See also:impeachment of the Jacobite See also:earl of Wintoun in 1715, and of Harley (Lord See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford) in 1717. In later years he supported See also:Walpole. He became very unpopular in 1736 for his introduction of the " See also:gin See also:act," taxing the retailing of spirituous liquors, and his house had to be protected from the See also:mob. See also:Pope has an illusion to " Jekyll or some See also:odd Whig, Who never changed his principle or See also:wig " (See also:Epilogue to the Satires). Jekyll was also responsible for the See also:Mortmain Act of 1736, which was not superseded till 1888. He died without issue in 1738.
His great-See also:nephew JOSEPH JEKYLL (d. 1837) was a lawyer, politician and wit, who excited a See also:good See also:deal of contemporary See also:satire, and who wrote some jeux d'esprit which were well-known in his time. His Letters of the See also:late See also:Ignatius Sancho, an See also:African, was published in 1782. In 1894 his See also:correspondence was edited, with a memoir, by the Hon. Algernon See also:Bourke.
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