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Summary Of: Hezekiah
King Hezekiah on a 17th century painting by unknown artist in the choir of... Hezekiah is the common transliteration of a name more properly transliterated as... Hezekiah witnessed the forced resettlement of the northern... Hezekiah enacted sweeping religious reforms... Hezekiah took the throne at the age of twenty... Some writers have proposed that Hezekiah served as coregent with his father Ahaz for about fourteen years from 729 BC... Hezekiah introduced religious reform and reinstated religious traditions... The biblical sources portray Hezekiah as a great and good king... Hezekiah was born in c... Hezekiah sought to throw off his subservience to the... If Hezekiah expected the Egyptians to come to his aid... and Hezekiah had to face the invasion of Judah by... Hezekiah initially paid tribute to Assyria... The Bible records that eventually Hezekiah tried to pay off Sennacherib... The Bible records that Hezekiah went to the temple and there he prayed... The Biblical account maintains that Hezekiah anticipated the Assyrian invasion and made at least two major preparations to resist conquest... Hezekiah is also remembered for giving too much information to Baladan... Hezekiah with the prophet Isaiah... Hezekiah introduced substantial religious reforms... Hezekiah abolished the shrines and smashed the pillars and cut down the... Hezekiah also resumed the... that some sort of administrative relationship existed between Hezekiah and a minority of northern Israelites... There is also evidence from archaeology that Hezekiah did not centralize the religion in Jerusalem... of the Arad temple at the time of Hezekiah not only that its maintenance was an official state cult... Aaronids were not exclusively the priests for Hezekiah as Chronicles claims... Hezekiah like Josiah was following the Shilohite kohanim... set of calculations shows it is probable that Hezekiah did not ascend the throne before 722 BC... That Hezekiah began to reign before 722 BC... Hezekiah coregency began in 729 BC... Nor is it clearly known how old Hezekiah was when called to the throne... problems on the basis of a coregency between Hezekiah and his father Ahaz between 729 and 716... who have recognized the coregency between Ahaz and Hezekiah are Kenneth Kitchen in his various writings... then all the extensive chronological data for Hezekiah and his contemporaries in the late eighth century BC are in harmony... biblical and near Eastern practice of coregencies that Hezekiah was installed as coregent with his father Ahaz in 729 BC... Encyclodia Page On: Hezekiah
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