Hezekiah 3:9: “It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it.” Without the book of Hezekiah, many people will make fools of themselves when they quote the Bible as the authority to confirm what they are saying, when in reality, what they are saying are neither in the Bible nor in the Old Testament as they claim.

104a). He was married to Hephzi-bah.

Hezekiah did not despair, however, holding to the principle that one must always have recourse to prayer. More on that below). "[47] He does not claim to have captured the city.

At this time Judah was the strongest nation on the Assyrian–Egyptian frontier. Archaeologists like William G. Dever have pointed at archaeological evidence for the iconoclasm during the period of Hezekiah's reign. [16] The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges refers to an "Egyptian tradition, according to which Sennacherib had already reached Pelusium in Egypt, when in a single night his army was rendered helpless by a plague of field-mice which gnawed the bows of the soldiers and the thongs of their shields". There is no account of the supernatural event in the prism. This would date his illness to Hezekiah's 14th year, which is confirmed by Isaiah's statement (2 Kings 20:6) that he will live fifteen more years (29 − 15 = 14). By Albright's calculations, Jehu's initial year is 842 BCE; and between it and Samaria's destruction the Books of Kings give the total number of the years the kings of Israel ruled as 143 7/12, while for the kings of Judah the number is 165.

"When Sennacherib had come, intent on making war against Jerusalem, Hezekiah consulted with his officers about stopping the flow of the springs outside the city … for otherwise, they thought, the King of Assyria would come and find water in abundance" (2 Chronicles 32:2–4). These include: Some argue that the Bible includes other mentions of savage seraphs, but each have textual issues.
Further, McFall found that no textual emendations are required among the numerous dates, reign lengths, and synchronisms given in the Hebrew Testament for this period. Ab. After the utter devastation at the hands of foreign invaders and the fall of the Temple, the people of God could no longer simply believe that their misfortune was completely at the hands of God.

They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman’s Field. The latter is a perpetual state of eternal living.

xxxii. 2 Chronicles 30 (but not the parallel account in 2 Kings) records that Hezekiah sent messengers to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to Jerusalem for the celebration of the Passover.
By the time the New Testament was being written, these shift in eschatological thought had taken root, and are very apparent in the New Testament (NT). [30], Abi saved the life of her son Hezekiah, whom her godless husband, Ahaz, had designed as an offering to Moloch.

[63] McFall, in his 1991 article, argues that if 729 BCE (that is, the Judean regnal year beginning in Tishri of 729) is taken as the start of the Ahaz/Hezekiah coregency, and 716/715 BCE as the date of the death of Ahaz, then all the extensive chronological data for Hezekiah and his contemporaries in the late eighth century BCE are in harmony. The Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484 BCE – c. 425 BCE) wrote of the invasion and acknowledges many Assyrian deaths, which he claims were the result of a plague of mice. R. Levi said that Hezekiah's words, "and I have done what is good in thy eyes" (II Kings xx.

have proposed that Hezekiah served as coregent with his father Ahaz for about 14 years. You'll get this book and many others when you join Bible Gateway Plus. This places his birth in the seventeenth year of his father's reign, or gives Hezekiah's age as forty-two, if he was twenty-five at his ascension.

[1] He is considered a very righteous king in both the Second Book of Kings and the Second Book of Chronicles. [22], Later in his life, Hezekiah was ill with a boil[23] or an inflammation[24] which Isaiah initially thought would be fatal. His father died at the age of thirty-six (2 Kings 16:2); it is not likely that Ahaz at the age of eleven should have had a son. 25) was that Hezekiah opened before them the Ark, showing them the tablets of the covenant, and saying, "It is with this that we are victorious" (Yalḳ., l.c. According to the biblical narrative, Hezekiah assumed the throne of Judah at the age of 25 and reigned for 29 years (2 Kings 18:2, 2 Chronicles 29:1). Knowing that Jerusalem would eventually be subject to siege, Hezekiah had been preparing for some time by fortifying the walls of the capital, building towers, and constructing a tunnel to bring fresh water to the city from a spring outside its walls. [65] The agreement of scholarship built on these principles with both biblical and secular texts was such that the Thiele/McFall chronology was accepted as the best chronology for the kingdom period in Jack Finegan's encyclopedic Handbook of Biblical Chronology. To summarize the drastic shift we're explicating: Death became something that people feared in a new way.

(It was called Nehushtan.[b]).

The narrative of his sickness and miraculous recovery is found in 2 Kings 20:1, 2 Chronicles 32:24 and Isaiah 38:1.