Event · The Divided Kingdoms and Prophets
Hezekiah's reform and Passover
Hezekiah's reform and Passover2 Kings 18:1–8Hezekiah about 715-686 BCE1 parallel account
Hezekiah reopens the temple, removes idols, breaks the bronze serpent and invites all Israel to celebrate the Passover.
- Main passage 2 Kings 18:1–8
- Also told in 2 Chronicles 29:1–31:21
People Hezekiah
- Place in the order
- Explicit biblical sequence Scripture itself gives the order of these events.
- Historical setting
- Hezekiah about 715-686 BCE Approximate historical setting
Thiele-based chronology of the kings of Israel and Judah; other reconstructions differ by a few years to a few decades.
Read it
2 Kings 18:1–8 WEB
1Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 3He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done. 4He removed the high places, broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. 5He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel, so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him. 6For he joined with the LORD. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses. 7The LORD was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him. 8He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.