Chizkiyahu Ben Ahaz

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King Chizkiyahu Ben Ahaz [Hezekiah} the fifteenth king of Judah. Ruled at the time the northern Kingdom of Israel was destroyed by Sargon's Assyrians in c 720 BCE. Hezekiah was king of Judah during the invasion and siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib in 701 BC. He enacted sweeping religious reforms, during which he removed the worship of foreign deities from the Temple in Jerusalem, Isaiah and Micah prophesied during his reign. The main accounts of Hezekiah's reign are found in 2 Kings 18-20, Isaiah 36-39, and 2 Chronicles 29-32 of the Hebrew Testament. Proverbs 25 attests that it is a collection of King Solomon’s proverbs that were “copied” “by the officials of King Hezekiah of Judah” Proverbs 25:1. His reign is also referred to in the books of the prophets Jeremiah, Hosea, and Micah. The main accounts of Hezekiah's reign are found in 2 Kings 18-20, Isaiah 36-39, and 2 Chronicles 29-32. Proverbs 25 attests that it is a collection of King Solomon’s proverbs that were “copied” “by the officials of King Hezekiah of Judah” Hezekiah's reign is also referred to in the books of the prophets Jeremiah, Hosea, and Micah. Hezekiah was born in c. 739 BC as the son of King Ahaz and Abijah (2 Chronicles 29:1). His mother, Abijah (also called Abi), was a daughter of the high priest Zechariah (2 Kings 18:1-2). He was married to Hephzi-bah. (2 Kings 21:1) He died from natural causes around 687 BC when he was 54, and was succeeded by his son Manasseh(2 Kings 20:21). The Talmud (Bava Batra 15a) credits Hezekiah with overseeing the compilation of the biblical books of Isaiah, Proverbs, Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes. According to Jewish tradition, the victory over the Assyrians and Hezekiah's return to health happened at the same time, the first night of Passover.