The Babylonian Talmud claims that Hezekiah, the 14th king of Judah, composed the book.

Hezekiah (;, Ezekias, in the Septuagint ; ; also transliterated as Ḥizkiyyahu or Ḥizkiyyah ) was the son of Ahaz and the 14th king of Judah.

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.

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.

Hezekiah is portrayed by the Hebrew Testament as a great and good king.

Between the death of the Assyrian king Sargon, and the succession of his son Sennacherib, Hezekiah sought to throw off his subservience to the Assyrian kings.

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 ().

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.

* 687 BC: Hezekiah succeeded by Manasseh as king of Judah.

* 701 BC: King Hezekiah of Judah, backed by Egypt, revolts against king Sennacherib of Assyria.

* 697 BC — Hezekiah succeeded by Manasseh as king of Judah.

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

* 729 BC — Hezekiah succeeds Ahaz as king of Judah ( or 726 BC ).

* 726 BC — Hezekiah succeeds Ahaz as king of Judah ( or 729 BC ).

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

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.

In 701 BC, during the revolt of king Hezekiah against Assyria, it was captured by Sennacherib despite determined resistance ( see Siege of Lachish ).

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.

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.

Isaiah 7: 1-8: 15, although set in the time of king Ahaz, apparently dates from the reign of Ahaz's son Hezekiah some thirty years later, and its purpose was to persuade Hezekiah not to join with other kings who intended to rebel against their joint overlord, Assyria.

According to Sennacherib's own account preserved in the Taylor prism, an inscription contemporary with the event, the king of Judah, Hezekiah, was " shut up in the city like a caged bird " and eventually persuaded Sennacherib to leave by sending him " 30 talents of gold and 800 talents of silver, and diverse treasures, a rich and immense booty ".

The child Maher-shalal-hash-baz is the second prophetic-name child after the birth of Immanuel-traditionally understood as the son of Abi the bride of king Ahaz, i. e. the future king Hezekiah, by many Jewish commentators, or of another woman.

Chapter 1: 1 identifies the prophet as " Micah of Moresheth " ( a town in southern Judah ), and states that he lived during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, roughly 750-700 BC.

The superscription of the Book of Zephaniah attributes its authorship to “ Zephaniah son of Cushi son of Gedaliah son of Amariah son of Hezekiah, in the days of King Josiah son of Amon of Judah ” ( 1: 1, NRSV ).

Proverbs 25 attests that it is a collection of King Solomon ’ s proverbs that were “ copied ” “ by the officials of King Hezekiah of Judah ”.

If Hezekiah expected the Egyptians to come to his aid, they did not come, and Hezekiah had to face the invasion of Judah by Sennacherib () in the 4th year of Sennacherib ( 701 BC ).

It is stated in the first verse of the Book of Isaiah that he prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah ( or Azariah ), Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah ().

" He later wrote about a battle in Lachish " And Hezekiah of Judah who had not submitted to my yoke ... him I shut up in Jeruselum his royal city like a caged bird.

This account is contradicted by the version in Chronicles, where, following Samaria's destruction, King Hezekiah is depicted as endeavouring to draw the Ephraimites and Manassites closer to Judah.

We can date the visit of Babylonian ambassadors to Hezekiah of Judah in this period.

In 701 BC, a rebellion backed by Egypt and Babylonia broke out in Judah, led by King Hezekiah.

* Hezekiah of the Kingdom of Judah ( reigned 715 – 687 BC )

* Hezekiah of the Kingdom of Judah ( reigned 715 BC – 687 BC )

When the reformer King Hezekiah came to the throne of Judah in the late 8th century BCE, " He removed the high places, broke the sacred pillars, smashed the idols, and broke into pieces the copper snake that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

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.

This narrowing of the dates for Hoshea is supplied by later scholars who built on Thiele's work, because Thiele did not accept the Hoshea / Hezekiah synchronisms of 2 Kings 18.

Assuming non-accession reckoning, as he usually did for coregencies, Thiele determined 54 " actual " years back to 697 / 696 BC, as the year when the Hezekiah / Manasseh coregency began.

It is believed the oppressive Moi regime might have poisoned him, just like they did with Hezekiah Oyugi and Tito Adungosi and others, before releasing him in 1987.

There was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

Although Troon's final report to the Kenyan authorities, delivered in August 1990, was not conclusive it did recommend further investigation into Ouko ’ s murder and in particular ' enquiries and further interviews ' in respect of Hezekiah Oyugi, a Permanent Secretary in Kenya's Internal Security Department ; James Omino, an MP for Kisumu Town and a political opponent of Ouko at the 1988 election ; and Nicholas Biwott, the Minister for Energy.

The building of YHWH's singular Temple at Jerusalem, which ( under the Law of Moses ) had a patent on sacrifices, did not stop the bamot sacrifices until Kings Hezekiah and Josiah proscribed them.