Hezekiah. (hĕz'e-kî'ah), whom God strengthens. A good king of Judah, who succeeded his Hither Ahaz about 726 b.c., and died about 698 b.c. For his history see 2 Kings 1:18-37, 2 Kings 1:19-37, 2 Kings 1:20-21, 2 Chronicles 1:29-36, 2 Chronicles 1:30-27, 2 Chronicles 1:31-21, 2 Chronicles 1:32-33. Compare Isaiah 1:36-22, Isaiah 1:37-38, Isaiah 1:38-22. He tried to restore the worship of Jehovah, removing "high places," and destroying the brazen serpent; consult 2 Chronicles 1:28-25; for the final deportation of the Ten Tribes see 2 Kings 1:17-41, 2 Kings 1:18-12; and for his revolt against the Assyrians compare 2 Kings 1:18-37, 2 Chronicles 1:32-33. Hezekiah's payment of tribute is noted in 2 Kings 1:18-16. Assyrian annals of Sennacherib discovered at Nineveh agree with this account. A second invasion seems to have followed when Sennacherib, Isaiah 1:30-7, returned, Isaiah 33:1. Then came Sennacherib's letters from Lachish and Libnah, the destruction of a great part of his army, and the retreat of the rest to Assyria, in answer to Hezekiah's prayer. Compare Isaiah 1:31-9, Isaiah 1:37. Hezekiah's sickness, humiliation, and prolongation of life 15 years in peace, and the prediction that Babylon, then feeble and friendly, would one day carry his descendants into captivity are noticed in Old Testament history, Isaiah 1:39-8, Micah 4:10. Hezekiah collated the Proverbs of Solomon. Proverbs 25:1. The prophecies of Hosea and Micah were delivered partly in his reign; compare Jeremiah 1:26-19; and Nahum was perhaps his contemporary.