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Biblical king who banned idolatry
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hezekiah
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Hezekiah (; Hebrew : ; ; , Ezekias , in the Septuagint ; ; also transliterated as Ḥizkiyyahu or Ḥizkiyyah ) 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, biblical, from Hebrew Hizqiyya , literally "the Lord has strengthened," from hazaq "he was strong, he strengthened" + jah , short for yahweh .
Usage examples of hezekiah.
With a little ecstatic sigh she gave Hezekiah her customary signal for the blessing and bowed her head.
This was the tomb of Hezekiah Pendergast, his own great-great-grandfather.
When Hezekiah Pendergast arrived on the scene, the Pendergast family fortune was almost gone.
And at that time there was a king in Judah called Ahaz, or, as others compute, Hezekiah his successor, the best and most pious king, who it is admitted reigned in the times of Romulus.
At the beginning of the book of the prophet Hosea, who is placed first of twelve, it is written, "The word of the Lord which came to Hoses in the days of Uzziah, Jothan, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Whence it is plain, that shaking off a power, which force, and not right, hath set over any one, though it hath the name of rebellion, yet is no offence before God, but is that which he allows and countenances, though even promises and covenants, when obtained by force, have intervened: for it is very probable, to any one that reads the story of Ahaz and Hezekiah attentively, that the Assyrians subdued Ahaz, and deposed him, and made Hezekiah king in his father's lifetime.
Sheridan said they had none, but Hezekiah, forever optimistic, ferreted into the bottom of the transmog chest.
In 1815, Hezekiah Coffin, the father of Pollard's young cousin Owen, had died during a provisioning stop in the islands off Timor, between Java and New Guinea.