Hezekiah King of Judah
Ezekias – Ezechia – Ézéchias – Ezequías – Hezequias – Hiskija – Hizkiahu ben Ahaz – Hizkia – Jechizkia – Ezequies
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Hezekiah (/ˌhɛzɪˈkaɪ.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.
In the Biblical narrative, Hezekiah witnessed the destruction of the northern Kingdom of Israel by the Neo-Assyrian Empire under Sargon II in c. 722 BCE. He was king of Judah during the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib in 701 BCE.
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. He is considered a very righteous king in both the Second Book of Kings and the Second Book of Chronicles. 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. “No king of Judah, among either his predecessors or his successors, could […] be compared to him”, according to 2 Kings 18:5. Isaiah and Micah prophesied during his reign.
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| Dimensions | 11cm x 8cm x 1.2cm, 15cm x 11cm x 1.6cm, 21cm x 15cm x 1.6cm, 27cm x 21cm x 1.6cm, 42cm x 32cm x 1.6cm |
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