He is considered a very righteous king in both the Second Book of Kings and the Second Book of Chronicles. Hezekiah enacted sweeping religious reforms, including a strict mandate for the sole worship of Yahweh and a prohibition on venerating other deities within the Temple of Jerusalem.
722 BCE and was king of Judah during the siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib in 701 BCE. In the biblical narrative, Hezekiah witnessed the destruction of the northern Kingdom of Israel by Sargon's Assyrians in c. 716/15–687/86), was the son of Ahaz and the 13th king of Judah according to the Hebrew Bible.
