("remembered by Jehovah".)
1. Son of Jeroboam II, fourteenth king of Israel. Last of Jehu's line, according to the prophecy (2Ki_10:30). Did evil in the sight of Jehovah as his fathers, worshipping Jeroboam's calves. Reigned only six months. Slain by the conspirator Shallum (2Ki_14:29; 2Ki_15:8-10), 772 B.C. (On the chronology of the kings, (See ISRAEL).
2. Father of Abi or Abijah, Hezekiah's mother (2Ki_18:2); Zechariah in 2Ch_29:1.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Zachari'ah. (remembered by Jehovah). Or properly Zechariah.
1. Son of Jeroboam II, fourteenth king of Israel, and the last of the house of Jehu. There is a difficulty about the date of his reign. Most chronologers assume an interregnum of eleven years between Jeroboam's death and Zachariah's accession. The latter event took place B.C. 772-1. His reign lasted only six months. He was killed in a conspiracy of which Shallum was the head, and by which the prophecy in 2Ki_10:30 was accomplished.
2. The father of Abi or Abijah, Hezekiah's mother. 2Ki_18:2.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
zak-a-rı̄?a (Ζαχαρίας, Zacharı́as; the King James Version, Zacharias):
(1) The son of Barachiah, who, Jesus says, was slain between the temple and the altar (Mat_23:35; Luk_11:51). The allusion seems to be to the murder of Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada (2Ch_24:20 ff). In this case ?Barachiah? would seem to be a gloss which has crept into the text through confusion with the name of the father of the prophet Zechariah, BERECHIAH (which see).
(2) See ZECHARIAH.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Zachari?ah [ZECHARIAH]
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
(a, 2Ki_14:29; 2Ki_15:8; 2Ki_15:11; 2Ki_18:2). SEE ZECHARIAH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.