Bible chapters where Hezekiah appears:
People and places appearing in the same chapters as Hezekiah:
Historical stelae, archaeological inscriptions, and classical fine art depicting Hezekiah:
ARCHAEOLOGY Paleo-Hebrew monumental inscription carved inside the bedrock of Hezekiah's water tunnel commemorating the bre...
GEOGRAPHY 8th-century BCE subterranean aqueduct carved 533 meters through limestone bedrock to redirect Gihon Spring wat...
ARCHAEOLOGY Paleo-Hebrew monumental inscription carved inside Hezekiah's Tunnel recording the dramatic breakthrough of qua...
ARCHAEOLOGY 23-foot thick stone defensive fortification built by King Hezekiah to enclose Jerusalem's Western Hill against...
MAPS Imperial territorial expansion map showing conquests from Tiglath-Pileser III to Ashurbanipal and the fall of ...
ARTWORK Nineveh palace alabaster relief depicting Sennacherib seated on his ornate royal throne outside the captured c...
Animated book overviews, biblical themes, and word studies exploring the life, theology, and biblical narrative of Hezekiah:
Overview of 1 & 2 Kings tracing Solomon's temple and tragic compromise, the kingdom's division into Israel and Judah, prophetic ministries o...
Overview of Isaiah 1–39 chronicling warning of judgment on rebellious Jerusalem and surrounding nations, the vision of the Holy One of Israe...
Inscriptions, ancient royal stelae, contemporary chronicles, and historian records attesting to Hezekiah outside the biblical canon.
Temple inscriptions at Kawa and royal granite stelae depict Pharaoh Taharqa wearing the double uraeus crown of Egypt and Kush, detailing his military campaigns into the Levant to support anti-Assyrian revolts.
Ostracon 18 lines 9–14: '...and concerning the matter which you commanded me, it is well. He is staying in the House of YHWH (byt yhwh).' Other ostraca order flour, bread, and wine for the 'Kittim' (Greek/Cypriot mercenaries).
The epigraph carved above Sennacherib seated upon his throne reads: 'Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, sat on a throne and watched the spoil of Lachish pass before him.'
Cuneiform state archives and palace reliefs systematically record the complete conqueror lineage: Tiglath-Pileser III, Shalmaneser V, Sargon II (who extinguished Israel in 722 BC), Sennacherib (who ravaged Judah in 701 BC), and Esarhaddon.
Column III lines 18–41: 'As for Hezekiah the Judean, who did not submit to my yoke: 46 of his strong walled cities... I besieged and took... Himself I made a prisoner in Jerusalem, his royal residence, like a bird in a cage.'
The text describes the dramatic climax of the engineering feat: while stonecutters swung their axes toward each other, an echo was heard, and on the day of the breakthrough, the miners struck axe against axe and water flowed 1,200 cubits to the reservoir.
Azariah (or Uzziah) is a biblical figure in Generation 43 of the Messianic Line, child of Amaziah, parent of Jotham. (1 ...
Ahaz is a biblical figure in Generation 45 of the Messianic Line, child of Jotham, parent of Hezekiah. (1 Chronicles 3:1...
Manasseh is a biblical figure in Generation 47 of the Messianic Line, child of Hezekiah, parent of Amon. (1 Chronicles 3...
Manasseh is a biblical figure in Generation 24, child of Joseph. (Genesis 41:51)...
Judah is a biblical figure in Generation 23 of the Messianic Line, child of Jacob/Israel, parent of Er, Onan, Shelah, Pe...
Jeshaiah (Isaiah) is a biblical figure in Generation 29, child of Rehabiah, parent of Joram. (1 Chronicles 26:24-25)...
Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And hi...
Amariah is a biblical figure in Generation 34, child of Meraioth, parent of Ahitub. (1 Chronicles 6:7, 6:52, Ezra 7:3)...