חִזְקִיָּהוּ
Hezekiah
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2396 appears in the Book of 2 Chronicles — 38 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 28:27 יְחִזְקִיָּ֥הֽוּ n Proper Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem; for they didn't bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 29:1 יְחִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ n Proper Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
- 2 Chronicles 29:18 חִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ n Proper Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within [the palace], and said, We have cleansed all the house of Yahweh, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels of it, and the table of show bread, with all the vessels of it.
- 2 Chronicles 29:20 יְחִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ n Proper Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 29:27 חִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ n Proper Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of Yahweh began also, and the trumpets, together with the instruments of David king of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 29:30 יְחִזְקִיָּ֨הוּ n Proper Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.
- 2 Chronicles 29:31 יְחִזְקִיָּ֜הוּ n Proper Then Hezekiah answered, Now you have consecrated yourselves to Yahweh; come near and bring sacrifices and thank-offerings into the house of Yahweh. The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank-offerings; and as many as were of a willing heart [brought] burnt offerings.
- 2 Chronicles 29:36 יְחִזְקִיָּ֨הוּ֙ n Proper Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which God had prepared for the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
- 2 Chronicles 30:1 יְחִזְקִיָּ֜הוּ n Proper Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 30:18 יְחִזְקִיָּ֤הוּ n Proper For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Yahweh pardon everyone
- 2 Chronicles 30:20 יְחִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ n Proper Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
- 2 Chronicles 30:22 יְחִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ n Proper Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding [in the service] of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace-offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 30:24 חִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ n Proper For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
- 2 Chronicles 31:2 יְחִזְקִיָּ֡הוּ n Proper Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 31:8 יְחִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ n Proper When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh, and his people Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 31:9 יְחִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ n Proper Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
- 2 Chronicles 31:11 יְחִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ n Proper Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Yahweh; and they prepared them.
- 2 Chronicles 31:13 יְחִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ n Proper Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 31:20 יְחִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ n Proper Thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah; and he worked that which was good and right and faithful before Yahweh his God.
- 2 Chronicles 32:2 יְחִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ n Proper When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
- 2 Chronicles 32:8 יְחִזְקִיָּ֥הוּ n Proper with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Yahweh our God to help us, and to fight our battles. The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 32:9 יְחִזְקִיָּ֨הוּ֙ n Proper After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,
- 2 Chronicles 32:11 יְחִזְקִיָּ֨הוּ֙ n Proper Does not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
- 2 Chronicles 32:12 יְחִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ n Proper Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and on it shall you burn incense?
- 2 Chronicles 32:15 חִזְקִיָּ֜הוּ n Proper Now therefore don't let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe you him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?
- 2 Chronicles 32:16 יְחִזְקִיָּ֥הוּ n Proper His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
- 2 Chronicles 32:17 יְחִזְקִיָּ֛הוּ n Proper He wrote also letters, to rail on Yahweh, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.
- 2 Chronicles 32:20 יְחִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ n Proper Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
- 2 Chronicles 32:22 יְחִזְקִיָּ֜הוּ n Proper Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all [others], and guided them on every side.
- 2 Chronicles 32:23 לִֽ/יחִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ prep + n Proper Many brought gifts to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
- 2 Chronicles 32:24 יְחִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ n Proper In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death: and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.
- 2 Chronicles 32:25 יְחִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ n Proper But Hezekiah didn't render again according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 32:26 יְחִזְקִיָּ֨הוּ֙ יְחִזְקִיָּֽהוּ n Proper n Proper Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh didn't come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
- 2 Chronicles 32:27 לִֽ/יחִזְקִיָּ֛הוּ prep + n Proper Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor: and he provided him treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of goodly vessels;
- 2 Chronicles 32:30 יְחִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ יְחִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ n Proper n Proper This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
- 2 Chronicles 32:32 יְחִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ n Proper Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 32:33 יְחִזְקִיָּ֜הוּ n Proper Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 33:3 יְחִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ n Proper For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served them.
About this entry
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The Hebrew name חזקיה centers on the idea of “Hezekiah.” Its earliest occurrence is 2 Kings 16:20. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 119 verses — common. 2 Kings dominates its distribution — 38 of 119 verses. Dig into 119-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2396 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 119
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 119 distinct verses.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #345
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 345 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 119 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Kings 38 verses 32%
- 2 Chronicles 38 verses 32%
- Isaiah 30 verses 25%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 119 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 74 verses · 62%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 45 verses · 38%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Hezekiah 72×, Did hezekiah 2×, Let hezekiah 2×
- American Standard Version: Hezekiah 67×, Did hezekiah 2×, It 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hezekiah 110×, Let hezekiah 5×, Hezekiah’s 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hezekiah 129×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2396 across 87 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2396 across 87 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2396 across 124 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2396 across 130 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 5 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. 𝔊 Εζεκιας, son of Ahaz, King of Judah, seldom †חִזְקִיָּה 2 K 18:1, 10, 14(×2), 15, 16(×2), also אַנְשֵׁי ח׳ Pr 25:1 †; elsewhere in 2 K (except 20:10) חִזְקִיָּהוּ: 16:20; 18:9 + 34 times, 2 K 18–21 ‖ Is 36:1 + 31 times, Is 36–39; also †Je 26:18, 19 1 Ch 3:13 2 Ch 29:18, 27; 30:24; 32:15; in Ch usually יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ 1 Ch 4:41 2 Ch 28:27 + 35 times 2 Ch 29–33; also 2 K 20:10 Je 15:4, and in title Is 1:1; †יִחִזְקִיָּה Ho 1:1 Mi 1:1 †(if י in these three be not textual error for וְ). e.g. 2 Kings 18:1
- 2. חִזְקִיָּה great-great-grandfather of proph. Zephaniah Zp 1:1, 𝔊 τοῦ Εζεκιου, perhaps = 1. e.g. Zephaniah 1:1
- 3. 𝔊 Εζεκια(ς), חִזְקִיָּה man of royal Davidic line 1 Ch 3:23 prob. near time of Chr. e.g. 1 Chronicles 3:23
- 4. יְחִזְקִיָּה, 𝔊 Εζεκια(ς), head of a family of returned exiles Ezr 2:16 = חִזְקִיָּה Ne 7:21, cf. also ח׳ Ne 10:18. e.g. Ezra 2:16
- 5. יְחִזְקִיָּהוּ 𝔊 Εζεκιας, an Ephraimite, Ahaz’s time 2 Ch 28:12. e.g. 2 Chronicles 28:12
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (י׳ hath strengthened, י׳ strengtheneth; = Assyrian Ḫazaḳi(i)au, Schr COT on 2 K 18:1 ff., Jäger BAS i, 469; cf. n.pr. יחזק on seal Gann JAs 1883 Feb.–Mar., 134 No. 7;—on format. v. LagBN 134)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חזק (châzaq) (H2388) — to strengthen.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חִזְקִיָּה
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Ezekiah, Hizkiah, Hizkiahu;
- 1. King of Judæa. Snh. 98ᵇ. B. Bath. 15ᵃ ח׳ וסיעתו וכ׳ Ez. and his assistants edited the books of Isaiah, Proverbs &c.; a. fr.
- 2. name of several Amoraim. Zeb. 75ᵇ. Y. Shebi. VIII, 38ᵃ top; a. fr.—Y. Snh. III, 21ᵈ ח׳ חוקוק (v. Fr. M’bo, p. 81ᵇ).—Y. Sabb. XIV, 14ᵈ top.—Y. Shebi. III, 34ᵈ top.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 43 distinct written forms H2396 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 18:37 | 17 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 18:19 | 12 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 29:27 | 10 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֨הוּ֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 18:22 | 9 |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 4:41 | 7 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 29:18 | 5 |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 30:20 | 5 |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 31:20 | 5 |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֨הוּ֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 29:36 | 5 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 20:15 | 4 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֛הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 18:17 | 4 |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 30:22 | 4 |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֜הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 29:31 | 4 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 18:16 | 2 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֜הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 32:15 | 2 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֣ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 18:14 | 2 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֤הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 19:10 | 2 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֥הוּ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 3:13 | 2 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֧הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 19:14 | 2 |
| חִזְקִיָּהוּ֒ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 20:13 | 2 |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Hosea 1:1 | 2 |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֥הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 32:8 | 2 |
| וְ/חִזְקִיָּ֛ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 3:23 | 1 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Zephaniah 1:1 | 1 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 18:15 | 1 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֗ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 18:13 | 1 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֜ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 18:16 | 1 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֥ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 18:1 | 1 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֨הוּ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 26:19 | 1 |
| חִזְקִיָּ֬ה | Noun, Proper | Proverbs 25:1 | 1 |
| חִזְקִיָּֽהוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 20:12 | 1 |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֛הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 32:17 | 1 |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֡הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 31:2 | 1 |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֤הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 30:18 | 1 |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֥הֽוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 28:27 | 1 |
| יְחִזְקִיָּ֨הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 29:30 | 1 |
| יְחִזְקִיָּֽהוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 32:26 | 1 |
| לְ/חִזְקִיָּ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 18:10 | 1 |
| לְ/חִזְקִיָּ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 7:21 | 1 |
| לְ/חִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 38:9 | 1 |
| לִֽ/יחִזְקִיָּ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:16 | 1 |
| לִֽ/יחִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 32:23 | 1 |
| לִֽ/יחִזְקִיָּ֛הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 32:27 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2396, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- חזק châzâq H2389 strong
- חזק châzêq H2390 stronger
- חזק chêzeq H2391 strength
- חזק chôzeq H2392 strength
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Hezekiah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Whom Jehovah has strengthened. (1.) Son of Ahaz (2 Kings 18:1; 2 Chr. 29:1), whom he succeeded on the throne of the kingdom of Judah. He reigned twenty-nine years (B.C. 726-697). The history of this king is contained in 2 Kings 18:20, Isa. 36-39, and 2 Chr. 29-32. He is spoken of as a great and good king. In public life he followed the example of his great-granfather Uzziah. He set himself to abolish idolatry from his kingdom, and among other things which he did for this end, he destroyed the "brazen serpent," which had been removed to Jerusalem, and had become an object of idolatrous worship (Num. 21:9). A great reformation was wrought in the kingdom of Judah in his day (2 Kings 18:4; 2 Chr. 29:3-36).
On the death of Sargon and the accession of his son Sennacherib to the throne of Assyria, Hezekiah refused to pay the tribute which his father had paid, and "rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not," but entered into a league with Egypt (Isa. 30; 31; 36:6-9). This led to the invasion of Judah by Sennacherib (2 Kings 18:13-16), who took forty cities, and besieged Jerusalem with mounds. Hezekiah yielded to the demands of the Assyrian king, and agreed to pay him three hundred talents of silver and thirty of gold (18:14).
But Sennacherib dealt treacherously with Hezekiah (Isa. 33:1), and a second time within two years invaded his kingdom (2 Kings 18:17; 2 Chr. 32:9; Isa. 36). This invasion issued in the destruction of Sennacherib's army. Hezekiah prayed to God, and "that night the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians 185,000 men." Sennacherib fled with the shattered remnant of his forces to Nineveh, where, seventeen years after, he was assassinated by his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer (2 Kings 19:37). (See SENNACHERIB.)
The narrative of Hezekiah's sickness and miraculous recovery is found in 2 Kings 20:1, 2 Chr. 32:24, Isa. 38:1. Various ambassadors came to congratulate him on his recovery, and among them Merodach-baladan, the viceroy of Babylon (2 Chr. 32:23; 2 Kings 20:12). He closed his days in peace and prosperity, and was succeeded by his son Manasseh. He was buried in the "chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David" (2 Chr. 32:27-33). He had "after him none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him" (2 Kings 18:5). (See ISAIAH.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(the might of Jehovah).
+ Twelfth king of Judah, son of the apostate Ahaz and Abi or Abijah, ascended the throne at the age of 25, B.C. 726. Hezekiah was one of the three most perfect kings of Judah. (2 Kings 18:5) Ecclus. 49:4. His first act was to purge and repair and reopen with splendid sacrifices and perfect ceremonial the temple. He also destroyed a brazen serpent, said to have been the one used by Moses in the miraculous healing of the Israelites, (Numbers 21:9) which had become an object of adoration. When the kingdom of Israel had fallen, Hezekiah invited the scattered inhabitants to a peculiar passover, which was continued for the unprecedented period of fourteen days. (2 Chronicles 29:30,31) At the head of a repentant and united people, Hezekiah ventured to assume the aggressive against the Philistines and in a series of victories not only rewon the cities which his father had lost, (2 Chronicles 28:18) but even dispossessed them of their own cities except Gaza, (2 Kings 18:8) and Gath. He refused to acknowledge the supremacy of Assyria. (2 Kings 18:7) Instant war was imminent and Hezekiah used every available means to strengthen himself. (2 Kings 20:20) It was probably at this dangerous crisis in his kingdom that we find him sick and sending for Isaiah, who prophesies death as the result. (2 Kings 20:1) Hezekiah's prayer for longer life is heard. The prophet had hardly left the palace when he was ordered to return and promise the king immediate recovery and fifteen years more of life. (2 Kings 20:4) An embassy coming from Babylon ostensibly to compliment Hezekiah on his convalescence, but really to form an alliance between the two powers, is favorably received by the king, who shows them the treasures which he had accumulated. For this Isaiah foretells the punishment that shall befall his house. (2 Kings 20:17) The two invasions of Sennacherib occupy the greater part of the scripture records concerning the reign of Hezekiah. The first of these took place in the third year of Sennacherib, B.C. 702, and occupies only three verses. (2 Kings 18:13-16) Respecting the commencement of the second invasion we have full details in (2 Kings 18:17) seq.; 2Chr 32:9 seq.; Isai 36:1 ... Sennacherib sent against Jerusalem an army under two officers and his cupbearer, the orator Rabshakeh, with a blasphemous and insulting summons to surrender; but Isaiah assures the king he need not fear, promising to disperse the enemy. (2 Kings 19:6,7) Accordingly that night "the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand." Hezekiah only lived to enjoy for about one year more his well-earned peace and glory. He slept with his fathers after a reign of twenty-nine years, in the 56th year of his age, B.C. 697. + Son of Neariah, one of the descendants of the royal family of Judah. (1 Chronicles 3:23) + The same name, though rendered in the Authorized Version Hizkiah, is found in (Zephaniah 1:1) + Ater of Hezekiah. [Ater]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
strength of the Lord
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 117 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 119 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- 2 Kings 16:20
- 1 Chronicles 3:13
- 2 Chronicles 28:27
- Ezra 2:16
- Proverbs 25:1
- Isaiah 1:1
- Jeremiah 15:4
- Hosea 1:1
- Micah 1:1
- Zephaniah 1:1
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
