King Hezekiah from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum, 1553
King of Judah
Reign
Uncertain, reign ended c. 687 BCE[a]
Predecessor
Ahaz
Successor
Manasseh
Born
c. 739/41 BCE probably Jerusalem
Died
c. 687 BCE (aged 51–54) probably Jerusalem
Burial
Jerusalem
Spouse
Hephzibah
Issue
Manasseh
Amariah?[b]
House
House of David
Father
Ahaz
Mother
Abijah (also called Abi)
Hezekiah (/ˌhɛzɪˈkaɪ.ə/; Biblical Hebrew: חִזְקִיָּהוּ, romanized: Ḥīzqīyyāhū), or Ezekias[c] (born c. 741 BCE, sole ruler c. 716/15–687/86), was the son of Ahaz and the 13th king of Judah according to the Hebrew Bible.[2]
In the Biblical narrative, Hezekiah witnessed the destruction of the northern Kingdom of Israel by the Neo-Assyrian Empire under Sargon in c. 722 BCE and was king of Judah during the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib in 701 BCE.[3]
Hezekiah enacted sweeping religious reforms, including a strict mandate for the sole worship of Yahweh and a prohibition on venerating other deities within the First Temple.[2] He is considered a very righteous king in both the Second Book of Kings and the Second Book of Chronicles.[4] 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.[5] "No king of Judah, among either his predecessors or his successors, could [...] be compared to him", according to 2 Kings 18:5.[6] Isaiah and Micah prophesied during his reign.[2]
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^Khan, Geoffrey (2020). The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 1. Open Book Publishers. ISBN 978-1783746767.
^ abcHarris, Stephen L., Understanding the Bible. Palo Alto: Mayfield. 1985. "Glossary", pp. 367–432
^Encyclopædia Britannica (2009), Hezekiah, Encyclopædia Britannica Online, 12 November 2009.
^2 Kings 18:3; 2 Chronicles 29:2
^Matthew 1:10
^Jewish Encyclopaedia, Hezekiah, accessed 15 April 2012
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