Hezekiah

Hezekiah (Hizqiyyahu ben Ahaz)
King of Judah (Melekh Yehudah)
King Hezekiah from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum, 1553
Reign	coregency with Ahaz 729, sole reign 716–697 BC, coregency with Manasseh 697–687 BC
Predecessor	King Ahaz
Successor	Manasseh
Born	c. 739 BC probably Jerusalem
Died	c. 687 BC (aged 51 or 52) probably Jerusalem
Burial	Jerusalem
Spouse	Hephzi-bah
Issue	Manasseh
House	House of David
Father	King Ahaz
Mother	Abijah (also called Abi)

Hezekiah (/ˌhɛzᵻˈkaɪ.ə/) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the son of Ahaz and the 13th king of Judah. Archaeologist Edwin Thiele has concluded that his reign was between c. 715 and 686 BC. He is considered a very righteous king by the author of the Book of Kings. He is also one of the most prominent kings of Judah mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and is one of the kings mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew.

According to the Hebrew Bible, Hezekiah witnessed the destruction of the northern Kingdom of Israel by Sargon's Assyrians in c. 720 BC and was king of Judah during the invasion and siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib in 701 BC. Hezekiah enacted sweeping religious reforms, including a strict mandate for the sole worship of Yahweh and a prohibition on venerating other deities within the Temple in Jerusalem.Isaiah and Micah prophesied during his reign.

Hezekiah, more properly transliterated as Ḥizkiyyahu (and sometimes as Ezekias) (Hebrew: חִזְקִיָּ֫הוּ‎ Ḥizqiyyāhu, Khizkiyahu; or יְחִזְקִיָּ֫הוּ‎ Yəḥizqiyyāhu, Y'khizkiyahu); ; or Ḥizkiyyah (Hebrew: חִזְקִיָּ֫ה‎ Ḥizqiyyāh). The root of the name חִזְקִיָּהוּ‎ Ḥizkiyyahu is ‎חזק, a verb stem that can mean