This document is about Hezekiah (King of Judah). For other homonyms, please refer to the Hezekiah document. He was one of the kings of the Kingdom of Judah. He is recorded as the most faithful king to God in the history of the kingdom. [See Genealogy of the Kings of Judah]
2 Kings 18:5For he joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.2 Kings 18:6Yahweh was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.
그의 즉위 시기에는 앗수르가 북 이스라엘 왕국을 공격하여 멸망하던 시기인데, 히스기야는 이사야(선지자)의 경고를 무시하고 애굽과 동맹을 하여 앗수르를 배반하다가 공격을 당했다.
2 Kings 18:7He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.2 Kings 18:8In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.2 Kings 18:9At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.2 Kings 18:10The king of Assyria) carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,2 Kings 18:11because they didn’t obey Yahweh their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it or do it.2 Kings 18:12Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.2 Kings 18:13Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria) to Lachish, saying, “I have offended you. Return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.2 Kings 18:14Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house.2 Kings 18:15At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of Yahweh’s temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.2 Kings 18:16The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem). They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
그러나 그 당시 병문안을 온 바벨론의 사신들에게 자신의 보화를 보여주며 부귀를 자랑하였으나, 이것이 여호화 보시기에 악하였고 선지자 이사야로부터 책망을 받고 유다의 멸망에 대한 예언도 듣게 된다. (열왕기하 20장 참조)
