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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Ezekias (King living at the time of Divided Monarchy)
Hezekiah, in the Greek of Matthew's genealogy. He was the reforming king of Judah who outlasted Sennacherib's siege in 701 BC, and Sennacherib's Prism boasts of shutting him up like a bird in a cage without claiming the city.
Hezekiah, in the Greek of Matthew's genealogy. He was the reforming king of Judah who outlasted Sennacherib's siege in 701 BC, and Sennacherib's Prism boasts of shutting him up like a bird in a cage without claiming the city.
Ezekias is the Greek form of Hezekiah, used in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:9-10). Hezekiah was a reforming king of Judah who removed idolatrous shrines and survived the Assyrian king Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC, an episode corroborated outside the Bible by Sennacherib's own Prism, which boasts of shutting Hezekiah up "like a bird in a cage" but stops short of claiming the city itself was captured.
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- Matthew 1:9
- Matthew 1:10
