Hezekiah
~715–687 BCE, the kingdom of Judah
King of Judah, son of Ahaz. He purged the high places and broke the bronze serpent Moses had made. When Sennacherib of Assyria besieged Jerusalem, Hezekiah spread the letter before the LORD and prayed, and 185,000 Assyrians died in the night. When Isaiah told him he would die of his illness, Hezekiah prayed and God gave him fifteen more years. During those extra years, he showed the Babylonian envoys his entire treasury. The prophet said all of it would go to Babylon.
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~715 BCE. He received two impossible answers to prayer — the Assyrian siege and the deathbed reprieve — and in the good years of the extension he made the choice that set up the Babylonian exile. Not a failure of character exactly; a failure of wisdom in the years grace bought him. Grateful, a little bewildered, honest about the treasury.
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