1. Hezekiah - Noun
2. Hezekiah - Proper noun
(Old Testament) king of Judah who abolished idolatry (715-687 BC)
Source: WordNetThere was no time, Hezekiah had said. No such thing as time in the terms of normal human thought. Time was bracketed and each of its brackets contained a single phase of a universe so vastly beyond human comprehension that it brought a man up short against the impossibility of envisioning it. Clifford D. Simak
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. Source: Internet
According to the chronology of the kings of Judah, Jotham became king in 742 B.C. and Hezekiah died in 686 BC. Source: Internet
Chapter 20 would have been added during the exile, and Harris says it "evidently took place before Sennacherib's invasion' when Hezekiah was "trying to recruit Babylon as an ally against Assyria.' Source: Internet
Likewise, The Archaeological Study Bible says, "The presence of these riches' that Hezekiah shows to the Babylonians "indicates that this event took place before Hezekiah's payment of tribute to Sennacherib in 701 BC" (564). Source: Internet
Based on Thiele's dating, Hezekiah was born in c. 741 BC. Source: Internet