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Hezekiah (/ ˌ h ɛ z ɪ ˈ k aɪ. ə /; Biblical Hebrew: חִזְקִיָּהוּ , romanized: Ḥizqiyyāhu), or Ezekias [c] (born c. 741 BCE, sole ruler c. 716/15–687/86), was the son of Ahaz and the thirteenth king of Judah according to the Hebrew Bible.
Manasseh was the first king of Judah who was not contemporary with the northern kingdom of Israel, which the Assyrians had destroyed c. 720 BC, deporting much of its population. He re-instituted polytheistic worship and reversed the religious changes made by his father Hezekiah – hence his condemnation in several biblical verses. [2]
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 co-regency, 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.
Eliakim, son of Hilkiah Eliakim ( Hebrew : אֶלְיָקִים , romanized : Elyāqim , Greek : Ελιακιμ , Latin : Eliachim [ 1 ] ) was the son of Hilkiah . He succeeded Shebna to become royal steward or prime minister for King Hezekiah of Judah , according to the Hebrew Bible .
The account in 2 Chronicles 28:3 refers to sons (plural). His government is considered by the Deuteronomistic historian as having been disastrous for the religious state of the country, and a large part of the reforming work of his son Hezekiah was aimed at undoing the evil that Ahaz had done. [8]
Hezekiah King of Judah: r. 716–687 BCE: Manasseh ... took 50 men with him and assassinated the king in his palace at Samaria. The House of Pekah. 737–732 BCE ...
The grandson of Hezekiah ben David through his eldest son David ben Chyzkia, Hiyya al-Daudi, died in 1154 in Castile according to Abraham ibn Daud and is the ancestor of the ibn Yahya family. Several families, as late as the 14th century, traced their descent back to Josiah, the brother of David ben Zakkai who had been banished to Chorasan (see ...
King Ahaz (II Kings 16:1) – under whose reign, Hoshea ruled as the last king of Israel. King Hezekiah (II Kings 18:1) – under his reign, the Assyrian Empire conquered and destroyed the northern kingdom 722 BCE leaving only the southern kingdom of Judah. King Manasseh (II Kings 20:21) King Amon (II Kings 21:18) King Josiah (II Kings 21:26)