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Joah (III)

III. JOAH, the son of Asaph1, was sent by Hezekiah king of Judah with Eliakim and Shebna, to answer the proposals of Rabshakeh, who was appointed by king Sennacherib to execute this Commission.

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  1. 2 Kings xviii. 18. In the year of the world 3291, before J. C. 709, before the vulgar Æra 703. ↩

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