Azarias

Osias ( Ouzyahu ), also named Azarias ( Azaryahu ), was the 10 {{E}} king of the Royaume of Juda and reigned about fifty years during one time included/understood, according to the various sources, between -783 and -740. It demolished the Philistins, overcame the Arab and the Ammonite S, made cut down the walls of Geth, Jamnie and Azoth.

Biblical account

According to the Second book of the Kings, his reign extremely prosperous and was compared with that of the King Solomon. Influenced by the prophet Zacharie, it is faithful to God during most of its reign. Towards the end of its life, its attitude deviates and, having wanted to allot the functions of the priesthood, it was suddenly struck Lèpre. This fault would have involved its burial apart from the necropolis of the other kings of this dynasty.

Shelf of Osias

In 1931, Professor E.I. Sukenik of the Hebraic Université of Jerusalem made a discovery among the collection of a Russian convent of the Mount of Olives. This document, known under the name of Shelf of Osias , is written in Hebrew and of style araméen (this style belongs to one 700 years later time after the reign of Osias) and is marked " the bones of Osias, king de Juda, are buried here… Not to open! "

Some estimate that the shelf indicated the place of a handing-over out of ground of the bones of Osias to the period of the Second Temple of Jerusalem.

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