Hezekiah
Also known as: King Hezekiah, Ezekias
King · The Faithful Reformer
Key Events
- 1Removed high places and destroyed bronze serpent
- 2Trusted God during Sennacherib's siege — 185,000 Assyrians struck
- 3Built the Siloam Tunnel for water supply
- 4Prayed and received 15 additional years of life
- 5Showed treasures to Babylonian envoys — rebuked by Isaiah
What Scripture Says (117 verses)
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings · Chapter 16
Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings · Chapter 18
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
2 Kings · Chapter 18
And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
2 Kings · Chapter 18
Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
2 Kings · Chapter 18
And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
2 Kings · Chapter 18
And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
2 Kings · Chapter 18
At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings · Chapter 18
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
2 Kings · Chapter 18
And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
2 Kings · Chapter 18
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Church Tradition
Death
Died, buried in Jerusalem
Location: Jerusalem
Source: 2 Kings 20:21
Details
- Verses
- 117
- Category
- king
Appears In
Key Verses
2 Kings 18:3-5
2 Kings 18:4
2 Kings 19:14-19
2 Kings 19:35
2 Kings 20:1-6