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Tirhakah
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
or Tirha´kah, king of Cush (Ethiopia in the Common Version), who in the days of Hezekiah came out against Sennacherib when he was making war on Judah (; ). He is the Tarakos of Manetho, the third king of the twenty-fifth dynasty, and the Tearkon of Strabo (xv. 687), with whom the twenty-fifth Ethiopic dynasty came to an end. His successful opposition to the power of Assyria is recorded on the walls of a Theban temple, for at Medinet Abu are the figure and the name of this king and the captives he took. That Tirhakah ruled at Napata, now Gebel Berkel, and in the Thebaid at the same period, is proved by the additions he made to the temples of Thebes, and by the monuments he built in Ethiopia. That he was a very potent monarch is evident from his defeat of Sennacherib, as well as from the monuments he has left both in Egypt and Ethiopia, and his maintenance of the Egyptian possessions in Asia.
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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Tirhakah'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/kbe/t/tirhakah.html.
