What is the story of Hezekiah?
According to the biblical narrative, Hezekiah witnessed the destruction of the northern Kingdom of Israel by Sargon’s Assyrians in c. 722 BCE and was king of Judah during the siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib in 701 BCE. What was Hezekiah illness? Hezekiah had a potentially fatal boil which suggests that he had bubonic plague. This…