(; ) Edwin Thiele has concluded that he commenced his reign as co-regent with his father Hezekiah in 697 / 696 BC, with his sole reign beginning in 687 / 686 BC and continuing until his death in 643 / 642 BC.

Hezekiah, more properly transliterated as Ḥizkiyyahu ( and sometimes as Ezekias ) ( Hebrew:, Khizkiyahu ; or, Y ' khizkiyahu ); ; or Ḥizkiyyah ( Hebrew: ).

Further levels of editing have also been proposed, including: a late 8th century edition pointing to Hezekiah of Judah as the model for kingship ; an earlier 8th century version with a similar message but identifying Jehu of Israel as the ideal king ; and an even earlier version promoting the House of David as the key to national well-being.

So long as Ahaz reigned, the kingdom of Judah was unmolested by the Assyrian power ; but on his accession to the throne, Hezekiah, who was encouraged to rebel " against the king of Assyria " (), entered into an alliance with the king of Egypt ().

The first part establishes Isaiah as a prophet of Israel during the reign of Hezekiah ; the second part focuses on Isaiah's actions during the siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib ; and the third part is primarily focused upon Isaiah warning the people of coming doom.

* 701 BC November 10 — Deliverance from Assyrian attack ; King Hezekiah of Judah, backed by Nubian Empire, revolts against king Sennacherib of Assyria.

King Hezekiah ( reigned 715 / 716 – 687 ) instituted a religious iconoclastic reform and destroyed " the brazen serpent that Moses had made ; for unto those days the children of Israel did offer to it ; and it was called Nehushtan.

Scholars have identified Taharqa with Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, who waged war against Sennacherib during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah ( 2 Kings 19: 9 ; Isaiah 37: 9 ) and drove him from his intention of destroying Jerusalem and deporting its inhabitants — a critical action that, according to Henry T. Aubin, has shaped the Western world.

; 1853: Abraham Mapu publishes Ahabat Zion, the first Hebrew novel, a romance of the time of King Hezekiah and Isaiah

As for Immanuel, " God is with us ", Isaiah might mean simply that any young pregnant woman in 734 BCE would be able to name her child " God is with us " by the time he is born ; but if a specific child is meant, then it might be a son of Ahaz, possibly his successor Hezekiah ( which is the traditional Jewish understanding ); or, since the other symbolic children are Isaiah's, Immanuel might be the prophet's own son.

" In Pesachim 56a Hezekiah hides (" ganaz ") a medical work ; in Shabbat 115a R. Gamaliel orders that the Targum to the Book of Job should be hidden (" yigganez ") under the " nidbak " ( layer of stones ).

The Temple became a major cultural centre in the region ; eventually, particularly after religious reforms such as those of Hezekiah and of Josiah, the Jerusalem temple became the main place of worship, at the expense of other, formerly powerful, ritual centres, such as Shiloh and Bethel.

He re-instituted pagan worship and reversed the religious reforms made by his father Hezekiah ; for which he is condemned by several religious texts.

by A Brandt ), in which the date of the Deuteronomic law book is placed earlier than in his book on the legislation of Moses -- shortly before or at the beginning of the reign of Hezekiah ; and his Alttestamentliche Theologie ( 1889, ed.

The last gaon of Sura was Samuel ben Ḥofni, who died in 1034 ; the last gaon of Pumbedita was Hezekiah Gaon, who was tortured to death in 1040 ; hence the activity of the Geonim covers a period of nearly 450 years.

There is no consistent view in classical rabbinical literature as to the order of the names ; the Jerusalem Targum, for example, argued that the names appeared in the order of the birth of each tribe's patriarch according to the Book of Genesis ; Maimonides argued that the names were all engraved on the first stone, with the words are the tribes of Jeshurun being engraved on the last stone ; kabbalistic writers such Hezekiah ben Manoah and Bahya ben Asher argued that only six letters from each name was present on each stone, together with a few letters from the names of Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob, or from the phrase are the tribes of Jeshurun, so that there were seventy-two letters in total ( 72 being a very significant number in Kabbalistic thought ).

He was succeeded by Hezekiah, his son ; next to him was Manasseh, his son ; next to him was Hanukkah, the brother of Obadiah ; next Isaac, his son ; afterwards, his son Zebulun ; then his son Moses ; then his son Nissi ; then his son Aaron ; then his son Menahem ; then his son Benjamin ; then his son Aaron II ; and I, Joseph, the son of Aaron the King, am King, the son of a King, and the descendant of kings.

Hezekiah also resumed the Passover pilgrimage and the tradition of inviting the scattered tribes of Israel to take part in a Passover festival.

") that — after Agag was also killed — the people of Agag were extinct, but in a later story in the time of Hezekiah, the Simeonites annihilated some Amalekites on Mount Seir, and settled in their place: " And five hundred of these Simeonites, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, invaded the hill country of Seir.

He was Hezekiah Butterworth, who also served as the editor of the nationally-circulated Youth's Companion.

In the past, the community of Lake Pleasant was also known as " Sageville " after Hezekiah Sage built a hotel and attempted to rename the community after himself.

It is thanks to the work of David Ussishkin's team that eight of these stamped jars were restored, thereby demonstrating lack of relevance between the jar volumes ( which deviated as much as 5 gallons or 12 litres ), and also proving their relation to the reign of Biblical king Hezekiah.

* Five Crows ( also known as Hezekiah ), principal rival Young Chief ( Weatenatemany ) for the role of Head Chief of the Cayuse, brother of the former Young Chief Tauitau, and leader of the hostile Cayuses

But two years later, in 1040, Hezekiah, who was the last exilarch and also the last gaon, fell a victim to calumny.

Hezekiah, is counted as the last exilarch and also the last gaon.

Hezekiah Woodward, linked at the time in the minds of Presbyterians and officialdom with Milton as a dangerous writer, was also significant as an educational follower of Comenius and Bacon, and friend of Hartlib.

In the past, Lake Pleasant was also known as " Sageville " after Hezekiah Sage built a hotel and attempted to rename the community after himself.

That same year, Hezekiah Clark and his family, also of Jericho, settled near the falls on the North River, followed by Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution.

At Norwich there was also Hugo Pierson's oratorio Hezekiah.

A grandson, also named Hezekiah Lord Hosmer ( 1814 – 1893 ), became the first Chief Justice of the Montana Territory and authored several books.

The same activity in regard to these books is ascribed to the men of the Great Synagogue as had been attributed to King Hezekiah and his council, including the prophet Isaiah, with regard to the three books ascribed to Solomon ( see also Ab.

* Mississippi Blues Festival ( also includes tracks by Hezekiah & the House Rockers, 2004 )

He travelled to America in 1866 as a member of a concert troupe promoted by the Baltimore impresario Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman that also included the Scottish operatic soprano Euphrosyne Parepa.

The texts also describe a Millo built by Solomon and repaired by Hezekiah ,, without giving an explanation of what exactly the Millo was.

Chaim Hezekiah Medini, ( Jerusalem 7 Cheshvan 5593 ( 1833 ) – Hebron, 24 Kislev 1904 ), also known by the title of his chief halakhic work, Sdei Chemed-was a rabbinical scholar during the nineteenth century.

( 2 Kings 18: 2 ) She was the mother of King Hezekiah.

Eventually Hezekiah revolted against Assyria, and as Isaiah had predicted the country was ravaged by Assyrian armies.

Hezekiah then took Isaiah's advice and threw himself on the protection of God, and Jerusalem was saved.

Hezekiah, the 14th king of Judah " did what was right in the eyes of the Lord " and institutes a far reaching religious reform, centralising sacrifice at the temple at Jerusalem and destroying the images of other gods.

According to the Hebrew Testament, Hezekiah witnessed the destruction of the northern Kingdom of Israel by Sargon's Assyrians in c 720 BC and was king of Judah during the invasion and siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib in 701 BC.

According to the Hebrew Testament, Hezekiah assumed the throne when he was 25 () and reigned for 29 years ().

Hezekiah was born in c. 739 BC as the son of King Ahaz and Abijah ().

Hezekiah was reduced to despair, and submitted to the Assyrians ().

Muslim exegesis preserves a tradition, which parallels that of the Hebrew Bible, which states that Hezekiah was the king that ruled over Jerusalem during Isaiah's time.

Hezekiah obeyed and gave an ear to what Isaiah advised him but, nonetheless, this was a turbulent time for Israel.

Tradition, however, maintains that Hezekiah was a righteous man and that the turbulence increased after Hezekiah's death.

Nineveh was the flourishing capital of the Assyrian empire (); and ostensibly was the home of King Sennacherib, King of Assyria, during the Biblical reign of King Hezekiah and the prophetic career of Isaiah.

After Sennacherib's fall Hezekiah gained possession of it, but when Josiah was slain by Pharaoh Necho, the latter took it away.

The Bermudian effectiveness was such that, when the US sued British privateers for wrongful seizures in British courts, following the war, a sizable part of the damages they were awarded were to have come from Bermudians, like Hezekiah Frith ( although, with the local authorities tasked with collecting these damages being in sympathy with the defendants, most of these damages were never paid ).

This canticle was recited by Hezekiah, king of Judah, after his recovery from a serious illness.

He died at the age of 36 and was succeeded by his son, Hezekiah.

" The context of this passage refers to the yoke of Sennacherib, and how his oppressive nature is overturned by that of Hezekiah who was said to be as mild as oil.

Shebna () was " treasurer over the house " ( meaning comptroller or governor of the palace ) in the reign of king Hezekiah of Judah, according to the Old Testament.

An ancient pool ( Upper Pool ) existed near the Gihon Spring but was no longer used after King Hezekiah redirected the waters to the western side of the city.

This assumption accounted for all the chronological texts that related four kings of Judah ( Uzziah through Hezekiah ) to three kings of Israel ( Menahem, Pekahiah, and Pekah ), but it apparently was largely ignored by the scholarly community.