King Ahaz's Seal which is a piece of reddish-brown clay that belonged to King Ahaz of Judah, who ruled from 732 to 716 BCE.

An insight into Ahaz's neglect of the worship of the Lord is found in the statement that on the first day of the month of Nisan that followed Ahaz's death, his son Hezekiah commissioned the priests and Levites to open and repair the doors of the Temple and to remove the defilements of the sanctuary, a task which took 16 days ().

Rodger Young offers a possible explanation of why four extra years are assigned to Jotham in and why Ahaz's 16 year reign () is measured from the time of Jotham's death in 732 / 731, instead of when Jotham was deposed in 736 / 735.

The Hebrew word is " עלמה " ( almah ), which scholars agree means a young woman of child-bearing age, without any connotation of virginity, and the context of the passage makes it clear that Isaiah has in mind events in his and Ahaz's near future.

In this passage from the book of Isaiah the prophet predicts to king Ahaz that a young woman will give birth to a child who will be called " Immanuel ", meaning " God with us ", and that Ahaz's enemies will be destroyed before this child learns the difference between good and evil, i. e., before it reaches maturity.

Isaiah 7: 1-8: 15, although set in the time of king Ahaz, apparently dates from the reign of Ahaz's son Hezekiah some thirty years later, and its purpose was to persuade Hezekiah not to join with other kings who intended to rebel against their joint overlord, Assyria.

Ahaz's son Hezekiah ruled from 715 BC to 687 BC.

* 740 BC: Start of Ahaz's reign of Judah.

* 740 BC — Start of Ahaz's reign of Judah.

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

The root meaning of the word anxiety is ' to vex or trouble '; in either presence or absence of psychological stress, anxiety can create feelings of fear, worry, uneasiness, and dread.

The emotional effects of anxiety may include " feelings of apprehension or dread, trouble concentrating, feeling tense or jumpy, anticipating the worst, irritability, restlessness, watching ( and waiting ) for signs ( and occurrences ) of danger, and, feeling like your mind's gone blank " as well as " nightmares / bad dreams, obsessions about sensations, deja vu, a trapped in your mind feeling, and feeling like everything is scary.

" Robert Brough Smyth's Aborigines of Victoria of 1878 devoted ten pages to the bunyip, but concluded " in truth little is known among the blacks respecting its form, covering or habits ; they appear to have been in such dread of it as to have been unable to take note of its characteristics.

1, Marx also emphasised that " There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits ".

" Whereas terror is a feeling of dread that takes place before an event happens, horror is a feeling of revulsion or disgust after an event has happened.

Hadingus realizes that he is flying through the air: " and he saw that before the steps of the horse lay the sea ; but was told not to steal a glimpse of the forbidden thing, and therefore turned his amazed eyes from the dread spectacle of the roads that he journeyed.

Using Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnivalesque, Jungian and historical writings on the images of the fool in myth and history, and ruminations on the mingling of ecstasy and dread in the Information Age, Dery asserts the evil clown is an icon of our times.

A night terror, also known as a sleep terror or pavor nocturnus, is a parasomnia disorder that predominantly affects children, causing feelings of terror or dread.

Their mode of fighting with their chariots is this: firstly, they drive about in all directions and throw their weapons and generally break the ranks of the enemy with the very dread of their horses and the noise of their wheels ; and when they have worked themselves in between the troops of horse, leap from their chariots and engage on foot.

Somniphobia is a dread / fear of falling asleep or going to bed.

But the most desperate pain is usually with menstruation and many women dread having their periods.

:" About her shoulders she flung the tasselled aegis, fraught with terror ... and therein is the head of the dread monster, the Gorgon, dread and awful ..."( 5. 735ff )

They dread daylight, which is fatal to them.

:" In a place like this, words fail ; in the end, there can only be a dread silence-a silence which is itself a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent?

: It is, I submit, greatly to be deplored that after more than 100 years of our national existence, after the government has withstood the strain of foreign wars and the dread ordeal of civil strife, and its people have become united and powerful, this court should consider itself compelled to go back to a long repudiated and rejected theory of the constitution, by which the government is deprived of an inherent attribute of its being — a necessary power of taxation.

The soldier is both relieved and worried to find that Hobson has experienced the same dread.

The word is a compound word combining the words dread and locks that dates to the time of the invasion of native peoples in the West Indies.

The Byzantine historian Procopius recorded of 536, in his report on the wars with the Vandals, " during this year a most dread portent took place.

In 1885 the explorer Archibald Meston described the Barron Falls in flood where the raging waters " rush together like wild horses as they enter the straight in the dread finish of their last race ... ( where ) the currents of air created by the cataract waved the branches of the trees hundreds of feet overhead ... the rock shook like a mighty steamer tumbling with the vibrations of the screw.

From the first shock of conflict, east of them, in and around Boston, to the battle of Bennington, in sight from high ground and a few miles on the north-east ; and the battles just across the river, between the patriot army and that of Burgoyne ; and later, they were in constant dread and danger, many abandoning their homes, where all farm work was virtually given up.

Epicurus maintained that the unhappiness and degradation of humankind arose largely from the dread which they entertained of the power of the gods, from terror of their wrath, which was supposed to be displayed by the misfortunes inflicted in this life, and by the everlasting tortures which were the lot of the guilty in a future state, or where these feelings were not strongly developed, from a vague dread of gloom and misery after death.

By June 1818 the Brazen was in need of repair and he returned with her to England, where the ship was taken out of commission and Stirling received the dread news that he was to be placed on half pay.

Much irresolution was caused by distrust of each other, arising from suspicions of treachery, by the absence of a chief and leader of the war ( for their sovereign, king Stephen, encompassed by equal difficulties in the south of England, was just then unable to join them ), and by their dread of encountering, with an inadequate force, so great a host However, urged by the 70-year-old Thurstan (' Lieutenant of the North ' in addition to his ecclesiastical duties ; Walter Espec was High Sheriff of Yorkshire ), to stand and fight and if needs be die in a holy cause, they agreed to gather their forces and return to York, where they were joined by reinforcements from Nottinghamshire under William Peverel and Geoffrey Halsalin, and from Derbyshire led by Robert de Ferrers.

Professor Abe earlier was required to walk down a path of terrifying dread, and to make a leap into the abyss, in order to find " that place where there is nowhere to stand.

According to Kneale, the notion for the play came from the " worldwide dread of populations exploding out of all control " leading him to devise a world where pornography hooks the population " on a substitute for sex rather than the real thing and so keeping the population down ".

The men look at where he vanished and one of the men says with dread, " I think we just missed the Rapture.

In the center of the Four Lands, under no particular ownership of any race, lies the Dragon's Teeth mountains, where the Valley of Shale and dread lake of the Hadeshorn are situated.

It was said that the wearer lived a " dread " life or a life in which he feared God, which gave birth to the modern name ' dreadlocks ' for this ancient style.

While normal doppelgangers have their own culture and have no real need to mingle with humanoids, dread doppelgangers can only reproduce by mating with humanoids ( usually doing so as males, as a " pregnant " dread doppelgänger cannot change forms until after giving birth ) and have effectively lost their own culture.

" Upon the Mother depend the winds, the ocean, the whole earth beneath the snowy seat of Olympus ; whenever she leaves the mountains and climbs to the great vault of heaven, Zeus himself, the son of Cronus, makes way, and all the other immortal gods likewise make way for the dread goddess ," the seer Mopsus tells Jason in Argonautica ; Jason climbed to the sanctuary high on Mount Dindymon to offer sacrifice and libations to placate the goddess, so that the Argonauts might continue on their way.

In his absence, his son Kai left the tribe to search for his father ( eventually becoming a performer in an Albion carnival ) and Ireland faced a second invasion-" the dread of Europe ", Atlanteans whose ancestors had lived in Ireland before the tribes of Danu and who had been forcibly turned into hosts-Golamhs-for the symbiotic Sea Demons under Lord Odacon ( an offshoot of the Fomorians ), who easily threw the tribes ' Sky Chariots into the Otherworld.