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According to the Bible, Hezekiah was the son of king Ahaz and Abijah (also called Abi), [7] daughter of the high priest Zechariah. Hezekiah married Hephzibah [16] and died from natural causes at the age of 54 around 687 BCE and was succeeded by his son Manasseh. [17] [better source needed]
Based on his conclusions, Thiele showed that the 14 years between Ahab and Jehu were really 12 years. This enabled him to date their reigns precisely, for Ahab is mentioned in the Kurk Stele which records the Assyrian advance into Syria/Israel at the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC, and Jehu is mentioned on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III paying tribute in 841 BC.
Hezekiah, Ahaz's son, is attested to by numerous royal seals [10] [11] and Sennacherib's Annals; [12] Manasseh is recorded giving tribute to Esarhaddon; [13] Josiah has no relics explicitly naming him; however, seals belonging to his son Eliashib [14] and officials Nathan-melech [15] [16] and Asaiah [17] have been discovered; and the kings ...
Hezekiah becomes ill, and Isaiah tells him he will die. Hezekiah prays, and God agrees to give him fifteen more years if he goes to the temple in three days. Isaiah prescribes a poultice of figs, and Hezekiah recovers. When Hezekiah goes to the Temple and stands on the steps of Ahaz, his shadow moves back ten steps, thus proving God's words to ...
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]
The article deals with the biblical and historical kings of the Land of Israel—Abimelech of Sichem, the three kings of the United Kingdom of Israel and those of its successor states, Israel and Judah, followed in the Second Temple period, part of classical antiquity, by the kingdoms ruled by the Hasmonean and Herodian dynasties.
"Reigned 29 years": according to Thiele's chronology, Hezekiah became the sole king after his father died before 1 Nisan (April) 715 BCE, [19] until his death between September 687 and September 686 BCE, for the total of 29 years. [20] Prior to that, Hezekiah became co-regent with his father from September 729 BCE to sometime before 1 Nisan ...
"To Hezekiah, son of Ahaz, king of Judah" – royal seal found at the Ophel excavations in Jerusalem. As was customary in the ancient Near East, a king (Hebrew: מלך, romanized: melekh) ruled over the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The national god Yahweh, who selects those to rule his realm and his people, is depicted in the Hebrew Bible as ...