tirhakah

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tirhakah - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Tirhakah
  the last king of Egypt of the Ethiopian (the fifteenth) dynasty.
  He was the brother-in-law of So (q.v.). He probably ascended the
  throne about B.C. 692, having been previously king of Ethiopia
  (2 Kings 19:9; Isa. 37:9), which with Egypt now formed one
  nation. He was a great warrior, and but little is known of him.
  The Assyrian armies under Esarhaddon, and again under
  Assur-bani-pal, invaded Egypt and defeated Tirhakah, who
  afterwards retired into Ethiopia, where he died, after reigning
  twenty-six years.