Sharezer
SHAREZER
SHAREZER (Heb. שָׁרְאֶצֶר), an abbreviated Babylonian name meaning "… [name of deity] protect the king" (cf. Nergal-Sharezer; Jer. 39:3, 13).
1. According to ii Kings 19:37 (= Isa. 37:38; cf. ii. Chron. 32:21), Sharezer and *Adrammelech murdered their father, King Sennacherib, in the Temple of Nisroch and fled to Ararat.
2. The name in Zechariah 7:2, sometimes read Sharezer, should most likely be combined with the preceding word and read Bethel-Sharezer (see *Regem-Melech).
bibliography:
J.P. Hyatt, in: jbl, 56 (1937), 387ff.; J.A. Montgomery, The Book of Kings (icc, 1951), 498–9.
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