Hezekiah : Strength In The Lord God

Hezekiah

Hezekiah which means ``strength of God" is the name used to refer to:

1. Twelfth king of Judah, B. C. 726-698. Noted for abolition of idolatry and powerful resistance to neighboring nations (2 kings 18:20; 2 Chronicles 29-32).

2. Son of Neariah (1 Chronicles 3:23).

Usi ng carbon–14 dating techniques, Israeli and British scientists have determined that Siloam’s Tunnel, a long, circuitous underground passage constructed below Jerusalem’s ancient City of David was probably built about 700 B.C., when King Hezekiah ruled the land of Judea.
The radiometric dating lends weight to the biblical text (2 Kings 20:20; 2 Chron. 32:3, 4), as well as to a very old inscription, discovered in 1880, on one of the tunnel’s walls. Although this inscription appears to refer to Hezekiah, it does not do so by name.
This marks the first time that a structure mentioned in the Bible has been dated radiometrically, according to researchers Amos Frumkin, Aryeh Shimron and Jeff Rosenbaum, who published their findings in the Sept. 11 issue of Nature.
While most scholars have long credited the 1,750-foot-long tunnel to Hezekiah — and in fact call it Hezekiah’s Tunnel — based on the two biblical references, a minority insisted the passage was built centuries later.
Among other arguments, the dissenters said that an enterprise this large would not have been taken during a time of war.
According to the Bible, Hezekiah built the tunnel to protect arid Jerusalem’s precious water supply from the hands of the invading Assyrians. Toward this end the king redirected the water from the Gihon Spring toward the walled City of David — from one side of the city to the other. Modern scientists view the tunnel as a great work of water engineering.
Both the spring and the City of David are located in the Kidron Valley, outside the walls of the better–known Old City of Jerusalem, in an east Jerusalem neighborhood called Silwan.
Radiometric dating measures the decay of radioactive elements and enables researchers to estimate the age of the material being examined.
Here, the scientists dated the organic material within the plaster of the tunnel, and employed uranium–thorium for dating the stalactites that have been growing in the tunnel since the time it was built.
Jon Seligman, Jerusalem District Archeologist, said the tunnel’s radiometric readings were further evidence that the tunnel was indeed excavated during Hezekiah’s time.

SCRIPTURES: 2 Chronicles 32:1-33 Hezekiah had a sound faith and trust in the Lord God in turn he had been rewarded with a very good success for his nation ( 2 Kgs.18:5-7). He also had success in the political affairs, that had been mentioned in attaining victory over the Philistines (2 Kgs.18:8), an event that had brought an invasion by "Sennacherib, King of Assyria" (2Kgs.18:13-16). In all of those preparations for the Assyrian attack against Jerusalem involved military precautions ( 2 Chronicles 32:4,5), political negotiations (2 Kgs.18:13-16) and what is really important is what they had done for themselves is being in formed in themselves for prepard themselves in an all out spiritual battle and had encouragement to uplift themselves to all of those citizens of Jerusalem ( 2Kgs.32:6-8).

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Spiritual Encouragement:

Enemies come in all forms. Anxiety, anger, pride, fear, loneliness, feelings of rejection. We may even feel that our students, children or grandchildren are our enemies. Where do you turn when you have been deeply hurt? What is your consolation when the pressures of life feel like they are going to crush you? King David turned to the Lord:

The LORD is my light and my salvation-whom shall I fear?

The LORD is the stronghold of my life-of whom shall I be afraid?

When evil men advance against me to devour my flesh, when my enemies and my foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.

Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear;

though war break out against me, even then will I be confident.

Psalm 27: 1-3

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