Hezekiah – Isaiah 36
The key is styled “of the David,” because there is a something connected with David to be opened and shut. This something is revealed in the prophets. There it is styled “the Key of the House of David;” that is, of his kingdom—Isai. 22:22. In this chapter, two states of the Kingdom of David are prefigured by the names of two of Hezekiah’s Officers—Shebana and Eliakim. The former, derived from shavah, “to lead captive,” represents the kingdom in a dispersed and ruined condition; and the latter from AIL, God, and yahkim, “shall set up,” indicates the restoration of the kingdom by Divine Power. Hence, Ail-yahkim, or Eliakim, is a typical name for the restoration power, which is Deity in David’s Son, or the Christ, Of this Eliakim, the Spirit in Isaiah saith to Shebna, Hezekiah’s treasurer, “I will call him, and clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. And the Key of the House of David will lay upon his shoulder: so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. And | will fasten him as A NAIL in an established habitation: and he shall be for a THRONE OF Gory for the house of his father, And they shall hang upon him all the glory of the house of his father, the earth-products and the shoots, all vessels of the small from vessels of the wash-troughs, even to all vessels of the skins.
— Thomas, John, M_D., Eureka: An Exposition of the Apocalypse, 2 ed., 1869, Vol. 1, page 375
Yahweh charges Sennacherib with saying by his messengers to Hezekiah: “With the multitude of my chariots, I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of fenced places.” These waters and rivers were the foreign nations he had laid waste.
— Thomas, John, M_D., Eureka: An Exposition of the Apocalypse, Brown Logos Version, Vol. 3, page 60-61
— Thomas, John, M.D., Eureka: An Exposition of the Apocalypse, 1866, Vol. 2, page 430
The brazen serpent, elevated in the wilderness for the cure of believing, serpent-bitten Israelites, was a legitimate object of regard, when accepted as a divine appointment for good; but when, afterwards, the children of Israel degenerated to the idolatrous worship of it, Hezekiah, with divine approbation, “brake it in pieces,” calling it contemptuously “a piece of brass” (2 Kings 18:4).
— The Christadelphian, Volume 35, 1898, Page 110
2 Chronicles 29
Verse 3. One of his first acts was to re-open the Temple, and to re-organise the worship of the true God.
Verse 4. “Carry forth the filthiness.” Can we wonder at God’s anger, and that he afterwards cast out His people? Apparently, Assyria was engrossed with war against Tyre, so Judah had an interval of peace. It took 16 days to cleanse and prepare the Temple.
Verse 30. The words of David and Asaph. The same Psalms we now have. The gladsome hosannahs and hallelujahs were once more heard in the Courts of the Lord, but there was one shadow (verses 3-4), Priests were slow to sanctify themselves.
2 Chronicles 30
The Great Passover. The following month, five years before the fall of Samaria (2 Kings 18:9) the word went forth from Beersheba to Dan, the whole land of Israel and Judah were invited to turn to the Lord, and while there were many scoffers (verse 10) there were some faithful ones who did turn and came up to Jerusalem, possibly remaining there, and so escaping the judgments which overtook Israel.
Verse 15. The Priests and Levites were ashamed (29:34). The zeal of righteous men always shames the slothful; therefore, be zealous.
Verse 27. Their prayers and praises arose with the incense even to God’s throne, their cry was heard. There was great joy in Jerusalem, and the priests blessed the people, no doubt, in the words prescribed under the law (Numbers 6:23 to end).
— The Christadelphian, Volume 33, 1896, Page 80
Hezekiah began to reign at 25 years old, reigned 29 years.
First mention 2 Kings 16:20. Last mention Micah 1:1.
Significant References: Hezekiah is mentioned in 117 verses in the bible. 2 Kings 18, 19, 20; 2 Chronicles 29, 30, 31, 32.
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