Meaning: whom Jehovah has strengthened
In public life he followed the example of his great-grandfather Uzziah. He focused on abolishing 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 (Numbers 21:9).
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 (Isaiah 30; 31; 36:6-9).
But Sennacherib dealt treacherously with Hezekiah (Isaiah 33:1), and a 2nd time within 2 years invaded his kingdom (2 Kings 18:17; 2 Chronicles 32:9; Isaiah 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.”
The narrative of Hezekiah’s sickness and miraculous recovery is found in 2 Kings 20:1; 2 Chronicles 32:24; Isaiah 38:1.
He was buried in the “chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David” (2 Chronicles 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).
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