( 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.

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

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 ().

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 ().

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.

") 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.

" 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.

Falwell and twin brother Gene were born in the Farview Heights region of Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of Helen and Carey Hezekiah Falwell.

Another very old and extensive tree is that of the Lurie lineage — which includes Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, Rashi, Hezekiah — and traces at least back to King David born c. 1037 BC.

Messianic allusions to some figures include to Menahem ben Hezekiah who traditionally was born on the same day that the Second Temple was destroyed.

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.

David Brainerd was born on April 20, 1718 in Haddam, Connecticut, the son of Hezekiah, a Connecticut legislator, and Dorothy.

In the mid-19th century the Krymchaks became followers of Rabbi Chaim Hezekiah Medini, a Sephardi rabbi born in Jerusalem who had come to Crimea from Constantinople.

Munyoro Nyamau ( Hezekiah Munyoro Nyamau ; born December 5, 1942 or December 6, 1938 in Riangombe Nene, in Nyaribari Chache ) is a former Kenyan athlete and winner of the gold medal in the 4x400 m relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

On the death of Ahaz, c. 715 BCE, his son Hezekiah followed a policy which Isaiah saw as dangerous, waging war on the Philistine cities and on Edom even though territory under direct Assyrian control ( i. e., the former kingdom of Israel ) now came to within a few miles of Jerusalem.

During the reign of Hezekiah, between c. 715 and 686 BCE, a notable increase in the power of the Judean state can be observed.

* Lady Constance Blanche Aletha Mary Foljambe ( c. 1889 – 1977 ), married Reverend Hezekiah Hawkins.

The supposed reference to Anah in the speech put into the mouth of Sennacherib's messengers to Hezekiah ( 2 Kings xix.

29: 10 – 19 ), or other pronouncements, such as Hezekiah ’ s Passover letter ( 2 Chr.

It ends with a visit to Hezekiah by envoys from a rebel prince of Babylon, and Isaiah's words prophesying the Babylonian exile.

The " servant of Yahweh " can be interpreted as any of three plausible characters: the first is an individual chosen by God, like Moses, Hezekiah, Josiah, Cyrus, etc., who is identified as a messianic figure of the future.

Mannasah's righteous grandson Josiah reinstitutes the reforms of Hezekiah, but it is too late: God, speaking through the prophetess Huldah, affirms that Jerusalem is to be destroyed.

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.

Some of the authorship is attributed to " Men of Hezekiah " ( 25: 1 ), though it is stated that they simply transcribed the proverbs rather than writing them of their own accord.

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 prayer of Hezekiah ( Isaiah xxxviii.

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

LMLK seals on storage jar handles, excavated from strata formed by Sennacherib's destruction as well as immediately above that layer suggesting they were used throughout his 29-year reign, and Bullae from sealed documents, some that belonged to Hezekiah himself, while others name his servants.

Hezekiah enacted sweeping religious reforms, during which he removed the worship of foreign deities from the Temple in Jerusalem, and restored the worship of Yahweh, God of Israel, as instructed by the Torah.

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

The books of Hosea and Micah record that their prophecies were made during Hezekiah ’ s reign.