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Mwai Kibaki. Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki[needs IPA] CGH [1] (15 November 1931 – 21 April 2022) [2] was a Kenyan politician who served as the third President of Kenya from December 2002 until April 2013. [3] He had previously served as the fourth Vice-President of Kenya for ten years from 1978 to 1988 under President Daniel arap Moi.
The Banquet of Absalom attributed to Niccolò de Simone around 1650. Absalom, David's third son, by Maacah, was born in Hebron. [5] At an early age, he moved, along with the transfer of the capital, to Jerusalem, where he spent most of his life. He was a great favorite of his father and of the people. His charming manners, personal beauty ...
Chileab. Chileab ( Hebrew: כִלְאָב, Ḵīləʾāḇ) also known as Daniel, was the second son of David, King of Israel, according to the Bible. He was David's son with his second wife Abigail, widow of Nabal the Carmelite, and is mentioned in 1 Chronicles 3:1, and 2 Samuel 3:3. Unlike the other of David's three elder sons, Amnon, Absalom ...
Utagaki. Utagaki (歌垣), also read kagai (嬥歌), was an ancient Japanese Shinto ritual gathering. Villagers would meet on a mountaintop, where singing, dancing, eating, having free sexual intercourse and the reciting of poetry would occur, in celebration of the beginning of spring or autumn. These events were closely associated with harvest ...
Adonijah, the fourth son of King David from Haggith (2 Samuel 3:4). He attempted to usurp the throne during the life of David (1 Kings 1:11ff). Solomon had him executed after being warned to remember his place in the line of succession per King David’s instruction regarding the crown. 1 Kings 1:32–35; 1:50–53; 2:13–25.
Amnon. Amnon ( Hebrew: אַמְנוֹן ’Amnōn, "faithful") was, in the Hebrew Bible, the oldest son of King David and his second wife, Ahinoam of Jezreel. [1] He was born in Hebron during his father's reign in Judah. [2] He was the heir apparent to the throne of Israel until he was assassinated by his half-brother Absalom to avenge the rape ...
Nathan (son of David) Nathan ( Hebrew: נתן, Modern: Natan, Tiberian: Nāṯān) was the youngest son among four or five children born to King David and Bathsheba in Jerusalem if names were written in order in the Bible (besides Solomon). [1] He was a younger brother of Shammuah (sometimes referred to as Shammua or Shimea) and Shobab, and ...
Solomon was born in Jerusalem, the second-born child of David and his wife Bathsheba (widow of Uriah the Hittite). The first child (unnamed in that account), a son conceived adulterously during Uriah's lifetime, had died seven days after birth. It is suggested in Scripture that this was a judgment from God.