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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 .
An insight into Ahaz's neglect of the worship of the Lord is found in the statement that on the first day of the month of Nisan that followed Ahaz's death, his son Hezekiah commissioned the priests and Levites to open and repair the doors of the Temple and to remove the defilements of the sanctuary, a task which took 16 days. [10]
Nor is it clearly known how old Hezekiah was when called to the throne; although 2 Kings 18:2 states that he was twenty-five years of age, his father died at the age of thirty-six (2 Kings 16:2) and it is not likely that Ahaz had a son at the age of eleven. Hezekiah's son Manasseh ascended the throne twenty-nine years later, at the age of ...
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]
According to William F. Albright, Jotham ruled from 742 BC until 735 BC and his son Ahaz ruled from his death until 715 BC, whereas Ahaz's son Hezekiah ruled from 715 BC to 687 BC. [5] Hezekiah was the king whose actions prompted the Babylonians to take the Jews into captivity, as prophesied in Isaiah 38 and mentioned in the genealogy at Verse ...
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 ...
They present the 8th century King Ahaz (reigned c. 732–716 BC) as a faithless monarch who rejects God's promise of protection for his dynasty and city, but the purpose of the original 8th century narrative was to dissuade Ahaz's son, Hezekiah, from entering into alliance with other kingdoms to oppose the Assyrian Empire, the regional hegemon ...
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 ...