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Name meaning: a measure for grain; vail (Hitchcock)
(Nubian, Sabako), an Ethiopian king who brought Egypt under his sway. He was bribed by Hoshea to help him against the Assyrian monarch Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17:4). This was a return to the policy that had been successful in the reign of Jeroboam I.
Source:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)Public domain
“So, king of Egypt,” is once mentioned in the Bible— (2 Kings 17:4) So has been identified by different writers with the first and second kings of the Ethiopian twenty-fifth dynasty, called by Manetho, Sabakon (Shebek) and Sebichos (Shebetek).
Source: Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863) · Public domain
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