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Hezekiah was the son of king Ahaz and Abijah (also called Abi), [6] daughter of the high priest Zechariah. Hezekiah married Hephzibah [ 20 ] and died from natural causes at the age of 54 around 687 BCE and was succeeded by his son Manasseh .
Ahaz was 20 when he became king of Judah and reigned for 16 years. Ahaz is portrayed as an evil king in the Second Book of Kings (2 Kings 16:2). In Edwin R. Thiele's opinion, Ahaz was co-regent with Jotham from 736/735 BC, and his sole reign began in 732/731 and ended in 716/715 BC. [4] However, William F. Albright has dated his reign to 744 ...
Identified as the father of King Ahaz on a contemporary clay bulla, reading "of Ahaz [son of] Jotham king of Judah". [8] 2 Kgs. 15:5, Hos. 1:1, Mi. 1:1, Is. 1:1: Manasseh: King of Judah c. 687 – c. 643: Mentioned in the writings of Esarhaddon, who lists him as one of the kings who had brought him gifts and aided his conquest of Egypt. [29] [44]
Oddly, it is at that precise point that he himself makes a mistake, by failing to realize that Hezekiah had a coregency with his father Ahaz, which explains the Hoshea/Hezekiah synchronisms. This correction has been supplied by subsequent writers who built on Thiele's work, including Thiele's colleague Siegfried Horn , [ 4 ] T. C. Mitchell and ...
Abijah, [20] who married King Ahaz of Judah. She is also called Abi. [21] Her father's name was Zechariah; she was the mother of King Hezekiah [22] A wife of Hezron, one of the grandchildren of Judah [23] A son of Becher, the son of Benjamin [24] The second son of Samuel. [25]
2 Kings 18 is the eighteenth chapter of the second part of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the Second Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE. [3]
Abijah is a person named in the Old Testament.She was the daughter of a Zachariah, possibly Zachariah the son of Jeberechiah (2 Chronicles 29:1; compare Book of Isaiah 8:2), and afterwards the wife of King Ahaz [1] (reigned c. 732 - 716 BCE) and mother of King Hezekiah (reigned c. 715-686 BCE).
Like his father, he reigned from Samaria. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 850–849 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 853–852 BC. [1] The author of the Books of Kings criticized him for following the ways of his father Ahab and his mother Jezebel, and for making Israel sin "in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat". [2]