Hezekiah

deeper meaning than the birth and second coming of Christ. The prophesy of the Immanuel figure was first fulfilled by the Old Testament King Hezekiah for the people of Israel and later brought to fuller fulfillment for all people through Jesus Christ. Modern readers of the Bible believe that Christ is the Immanuel prophesied by Isaiah. This is indeed true. However, Christ was not the only one to fulfill the figure of Immanuel. To understand the prophesy of Isaiah, one must take into account the natures of the biblical testaments. First, one needs to attend to the interpretation “the foreignness and the particularity of the word of the Old and…

In the seventh century, the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel faced the rising empires of Assyria and Babylon. In order to survive possible invasion or annexation, the Kingdom of Judah issued many religious reforms under Kings Hezekiah and Josiah. Religious practices before these threats were much more decentralized and had roots in earlier Yahwistic cultic practices. An example of these practices would be the High Places as areas of worship. With the downfall of the northern Kingdom of Israel, Judah…

significantly different from the king evoked by the book of Kings. Initially, 2 Chronicles 33 follows closely the accounts of 2 Kings 21. King Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, began his 55-year reign at the age of 12. Both texts go on to say that Manasseh followed the practice of the nation whom the Lord driven out of the land for the people of Israel. These practices included rebuilding the high places Hezekiah had destroyed, erecting altars for Baal, made an Asherah and altars for worship of…

temple. 2. Do you think Isaiah 's advice to Ahaz in the Syro-Ephraimitic crisis was sound? Explain your answer. Ahaz had been attacked and oppressed by Pekah King of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and also by King of Damascus. They wanted to destroy the Davidic line and replace it. They had wanted Ahaz to join them in a coalition to fight off the Assyrians, but he refused. Ahaz doesn 't trust God or Isaiah. Instead, Ahaz sent tribute to the King of Assyria and became co-dependent to Assyria.…

Introduction & Main Theme The historical interlude, Isaiah chapters 36-39, surrounds the military might of two parties: Hezekiah, king of Judah and the Assyria king Sennacherib. The Assyrian king sends his messengers to Hezekiah to frighten him to distance himself from God and to rely upon Assyria. Isaiah is called in to prophesize to Hezekiah. God gives him signs. Sennacherib ends up dying. Hezekiah also suffered from an illness, which he recovered in his health by God. Ironically, he…

her sins against God. In connecting the two oracles, it is more likely that people understood King Hezekiah to be the one spoken of rather than a son of Isaiah for the Immanuel figure is of royalty. This king is described as having brought God’s people out of the darkness and into the light of prosperity and joy. “For a child has been born to us, a son has been given us” speaks as the child predicted by Isaiah having come (Isa. 9:5). Isaiah speaks in the past tense about the child, creating…

Hezekiah destroyed all evidence of Idol worship when he became king. He tore down Asherah poles and smashed alters dedicated to Baal. He even destroyed the High Places where people would mix their worship of the true God, with other idols. He shattered the bronze snake that God had ordered to be made to bring healing for his people in the wilderness. This was because instead of just using it as a way to remember God’s power, the people had been bowing down to it. It had to go. Most other kings…

2 Kings 18-25 – The story of 2 Kings continues with the introduction of King Hezekiah of Judah, who is like a breath of fresh air when compared to his predecessors. This is because he does what is right in the eyes of God and tries his best to obey His commandments. YHWH also alters the rhythm of the story a little because He takes a more active role in Judah’s history. When Judah is threatened by foreign invaders, YHWH acts as the defender of His people and does not allow the enemy to…

prophesied during the reign of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, from about 740-690 BC/E. Isaiah 1-39 was written by Isaiah and talks about issues before the exile. Isaiah 40-66 addresses a future hope and is written by someone other than Isaiah (ETOT pg. 355). When Isaiah responds to God’s call, the Northern Kingdom of Israel has less than twenty years before to fell to Assyria. The first main section focuses on Isaiah’s vision of judgment and hope for Jerusalem. It begins as Isaiah accuses…

704–681 B.C.), who chose the ancient city of Nineveh as his capital. When Sargon II’s son Sennacherib came to the throne in 704 bc, revolts were sprouting everywhere in his empire. Those restive states hoped that the hitherto-untested new monarch would not be a match for his militant father or his powerful grandfather, Tiglath-Pileser III. Among the first to rebel in 705 was King Hezekiah of Judah. Had it not been for the fateful interaction between Hezekiah and Sennacherib, the landscape of…