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REZEPH . A city mentioned in the message of the Rabshakeh of Sennacherib to Hezekiah ( 2 Kings 19:12 , Isaiah 37:12 ). It is the Ratsappa or Ratsapi of the Assyrian inscriptions, the modern Rasafa , between Palmyra and the Euphrates. This district belonged for several centuries to the Assyrians, and many of the tablets show it to have been an important trade-centre. Between b.c. 839 and 737 the prefects who had authority in the place were, to all appearance, Assyrians, only one, of unknown but apparently late date, having a name which may be West Semitic, namely, Abda’, possibly a form of ‘Abda or ‘ Obadiah .
T. G. Pinches.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Rezeph'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/r/rezeph.html. 1909.
Hastings, James. Entry for 'Rezeph'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/r/rezeph.html. 1909.
