The birth of the story of King Hezekiah came about from his father, King Ahaz, who was the king of Judah at first. Throughout the reign of Ahaz, the Bible demonstrates to us how Ahaz was not the best perfect that was fit for a king. King Ahaz brought much turmoil to the nation of Judah. God was not pleased at with the people, with the people; He was not only disappointed with the people, but also with King Ahaz because his ruling. King Ahaz disobeyed the law of the Lord; Ahaz gave the people to be able and worship other gods. The Bible states, “Ahaz gathered together the furnishings from the temple of God and cut them into pieces. He shut the doors of the Lord’s temple and set up altars at every street corner in Jerusalem.”
Hezekiah had a great impact during the exile time in the Bible; Hezekiah was known as the king of Judah. Herion states, name of Hezekiah comes from the root word of ‘hzq’ which means, “to be strong, to strengthen.” It is said that King Hezekiah ruled the nation of Judah between the years of 715 B.C.E- 687 B.C.E. He first began is 29-year reign, beginning at a young age of 25 years old. Hezekiah took over the reign of Judah soon after his father, King Ahaz died. After his father’s death, Hezekiah promised that his reign would not be like his fathers. King Hezekiah was known to be a better king than his father; he did not follow in his father’s footsteps of the bad reputation of being the king of Judah. Hezekiah loved the Lord and he obeyed His laws that he commanded Hezekiah to do. Paton describes King Hezekiah as “… one of the most vigorous kings of the dynasty of David, and he became the leader of the Palestinian states in the struggle of Assyria.”
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very strong Christian king and does what he has to do as a king. This
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From the beginning of his life as a warrior to the end as a king, he gains and develops glory, responsibility and courage, all vital to his reign as a successful king.
He goes by the name of Gilgamesh. He is the king of Uruk. He is a charming, tough, and an insanely smart man. He built high walls around his city to keep people out, and built incredible towers and monuments. Gilgamesh had a tyrannical behavior that made him fail in his most important duties to his people.
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“In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in their own sight” (Judg. 21:25). This quote at the end of Judges sets up an optimistic view of kings for the rest of the Deuteronomistic History. King David is considered perhaps the greatest king over all of Israel, whereas King Hezekiah is praised for never turning away from God and being the greatest king among all the kings of Judah (2 Kgs. 5). However, despite the high need for a praise of kings throughout the Deuteronomistic history, Solomon is viewed with a skeptical eye and is the cause of the demise of Israel. Unlike the positive view of kings portrayed throughout the Deuteronomistic history, King Solomon is framed in a negative light in 1 Kings 11: 1-13, which
After conquering northern Israel in 722 B.C.E., the Assyrians engendered centuries of political intrigue and laid the foundation for future unscrupulous kingdoms and idolatrous people.1 Once the Babylonian empire overthrew Josiah, the King of Judah, Habakkuk began to compose a prophetic book, questioning the ways of God. Above all, Habakkuk could not comprehend why “the evil circumvented the just”2; he thought that the impiety of the world did not correlate with a supposedly just God.3 Throughout his narrative, this biblical prophet came to understand that “the just man, because of his faith, shall live” (Hb 2,4). Eventually discovering that righteousness and faith in God lead to justice, Habakkuk cried out to the people of Judah through his prophetic words, assuring that divine intervention would eradicate the wickedness and oppression.
...f his deeds and he had to live in exile together with his daughters. This was a fulfillment of the prophecy predicted by the gods about how his life was going to end.
...lf and of knowing who they were and to feel like a whole but then he ruined his very own kingdom also by not sticking to his own teachings and acclaiming himself a higher power then the deity’s that they worshipped.
noble birth and he had a lot of responsibility in his kingdom. He is looked up to by most for leadership and guidance.
The council, on the other hand, treated him poorly because the king was taking money and food from the wealthy and giving it to the poor. These accusations infuriated the king and he decided that he would show that what he was doing was the right thing to do with enforcing laws and taxes on both the wealthy and the poor. He expected the wealthy and the poor to beg him for his forgiveness and for his kindness to return but instead was met with hate and riots. These reactions pushed the king to his limit and he enforced more laws and taxes on both groups along with curfews and the public executions of those
The first son was to be named Jezreel. This name referred to the Valley of Jezreel, where the founder of a dynasty by the name Jehu massacred all the descendants of Ahab putting Jeroboam II on the throne (2 Kings 10:11). Israel did not learn from this massacre and therefore God was going to put an end to its kingdom in the valley of Jezreel. The next child born was a girl and was to be named as per ...