חזקיה

• General Notes
  • King 715 B.C.  The famous reform-minded king of Judah, Hezekiah  succeeded hisweak,    pag an-minded father, Ahaz, and successfully  led his country through  thefrig htening days when Assyria was  sweeping over the world in  the  8thcentury  B.C.In spite of tht BD  Assyria and Babylonia There was again a rising of the Philistines in  711 (Isa. 20), but     once  more the Egyptians failed their friends  in the time of need.On   Sargon?אש s death a fresh revolt broke out  through all the empire,  and Merodach Ba ladan of B