687 BCE, and was succeeded by his son Manasseh. He died from natural causes at the age of 54 in c. His mother, Abijah (also called Abi), was a daughter of the high priest Zechariah. Hezekiah was the son of King Ahaz and Abijah. However, Gershon Galil dates his reign to 697–642 BCE. Albright calculated his regnal years arriving at figures very close to each other, c. Dates īased on Edwin Thiele's dating, Hezekiah was born in c. The books of Hosea and Micah record that their prophecies were made during Hezekiah's reign. His reign is also referred to in the books of the prophets Jeremiah, Hosea, and Micah. Proverbs 25:1 commences a collection of King Solomon's proverbs which were "copied by the officials of King Hezekiah of Judah". The main biblical accounts of Hezekiah's reign are found in 2 Kings, Isaiah, and 2 Chronicles.
Alternately it may be translated as "Yahweh is my strength". The name Hezekiah means "Yahweh strengthens" in Hebrew.
He is also one of the more prominent kings of Judah mentioned in the Bible and is one of the kings mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. He is considered a very righteous king in both the Second Book of Kings and the Second Book of Chronicles.
Hezekiah enacted sweeping religious reforms, including a strict mandate for the sole worship of Yahweh and a prohibition on venerating other deities within the Temple of Jerusalem. 722 BCE and was king of Judah during the siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib in 701 BCE. In the biblical narrative, Hezekiah witnessed the destruction of the northern Kingdom of Israel by Sargon's Assyrians in c. 716/15–687/86 or 697–642), was the son of Ahaz and the 13th king of Judah according to the Hebrew Bible.
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