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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.
Amariah son of Hezekiah, an ancestor of the prophet Zephaniah mentioned in the genealogy of Zephaniah 1:1. A late 8th – early 7th century BCE bulla reading "[belonging to] Amaryahu, son of the King" might refer to him. [183] Asaiah, servant of king Josiah (2 Kings 22:12). A seal with the text Asayahu servant of the king probably belonged to ...
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 11 .
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 ...
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]
Seal of Hezekiah – 8th. c BCE [54] King Ahaz's Seal (732 to 716 BC) – Ahaz was a king of Judah but "did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had done" (2 Kings 16:2; 2 Chronicles 28:1). He worshiped idols and followed pagan practices.
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 ...
Benton Avenue AME Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 830 N. Benton Avenue in Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, USA. It was built between 1922 and 1926, and is a two-story tile block and brick church. [2]: 5 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1]