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Zechariah

Also called Zachariah

Mentioned in 725 BC traditional (Jones)

The father of Abijah, who was the mother of Hezekiah (2 Chr. 29:1).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Child
Abijah
Tagged in
2 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Zechariah, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Jerusalem2

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 750–700 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 4 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

2 tagged verses in 2 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. 2 Kings1
  2. 2 Chronicles1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBZechariah 62Zachariah 0
KJVZechariah 39Zachariah 4
ASVZechariah 43Zachariah 2

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

2 Kings1 verse
  1. 18:2

    He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 29:1

    Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

The father of Abijah, who was the mother of Hezekiah (2 Chr. 29:1).