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Our attention is turned to the southern kingdom of Israel called Judah. Hezekiah was reigning as king in those days and as we read earlier, Hezekiah was a good king. He trusted in the Lord and brought about a great revival in Israel. He brought reforms that even Solomon had not done.

The northern kingdom of Israel had already been destroyed by Assyria at this point. Israel in the north had been carried away and transported to some far-off place and some other people were brought in to replace them. They inter-married with the few Hebrews who remained and later became known as the Samaritans.

As we studied last week, Assyria almost destroyed Judah in the south as well. Hezekiah, to prepare for the siege, became famous for engineering a tunnel that diverted the brook Gihon to the Pool of Siloam inside Jerusalem. It was 1,777 feet long and 30 feet underground through solid bedrock.

First, Assyria laid siege to Jerusalem and then later Hezekiah received a letter from the king of Assyria warning him not to trust in the God of Israel. But Hezekiah brought that letter to the house of the Lord and laid it out before Him and prayed that God would save them.

God responded by saying, “Because you have prayed to Me about the king of Assyria, I have heard you.” That night an angel of the Lord came through the camp of Assyria and 185,000 soldiers of Assyria died.

Sometime shortly afterwards, Hezekiah became mortally sick. We don't know the exact nature of his illness, but we do know that there was some kind of boil associated with it. Perhaps it was some form of cancer, but we really don't know for certain. Ben Gurion University put out a study of the chemical compounds in figs as a treatment for cutaneous anthrax based on this account in 2 Kings.

The prophet Isaiah came to Hezekiah with a message from the Lord and here the lessons for us begin as well. As we study through this part of Hezekiah's life, there are many spiritual lessons and insights for each one of us.

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