2 Kings 18:1
In the third year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- 701 BC
- WHO
- Ahaz, Hezekiah
WHO APPEARS
WHEN
701 BC
dated by the text itself
Two independent sources, one biblical and one Assyrian, telling of the same siege and disagreeing only about how it ended.
WHO RULED
- Hezekiah king of Judah 715-686 BC IN THE TEXT
- Sennacherib king of Assyria 705-681 BC
SOURCES
- date — 2 Kings 18:13 dates itself by the fourteenth year of Hezekiah; the Sennacherib Prism dates the same campaign to 701 BC and names Hezekiah.
- Hezekiah — 2 Kings 18-20; the Sennacherib Prism, which names him; the Siloam tunnel and the inscription found in it, which record the work of 2 Kings 20:20
- Sennacherib — Taylor Prism (British Museum), in which he tells of besieging Jerusalem and names "Hezekiah, the Jew," but does not say he took the city
SEE ALSO
- 2 Chronicles 28:27–29:1 And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place. …
- 1 Chronicles 3:13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
- Matthew 1:9-10 Uzziah was the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah. …
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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