# Hezekiah

Source: https://enocharchive.com/characters/hezekiah (Enoch Archive).

Hezekiah was twenty-five when he began to reign over Judah and ruled twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. He pleased the Lord, smashing altars and cutting in pieces the brass serpent Moses made in the wilderness, and he abolished heathen practices. Through his prayer Jerusalem was saved from Sennacherib. After recovering from deadly sickness without a son he waited fourteen years for Manasseh's birth and died content with an heir on David's throne.

In the Ascension of Isaiah he called his only son Manasseh in the twenty-sixth year of his reign. Isaiah told him Manasseh would make the commands of none effect and that Isaiah would depart mid torture by Manasseh's hands. Hezekiah wept bitterly, rent his garments, placed earth on his head, fell on his face, and resolved to slay his son.

**books:** The Cave of Treasures; The Ascension of Isaiah