Bible Readings:
2 Kings 18:1-16
Isaiah chs. 38-39
Sermon Outline:
2 Kings 18:3–5 (NKJV)
3 And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done.
4 He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan.
5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him.
I The times of Hezekiah
II The faith of Hezekiah
III The faithfulness of Hezekiah
2 Kings 18:6 (NKJV)
6 For he held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the Lord had commanded Moses.
From The ESV Study Bible: 2 Chronicles 32:1-5
32:1–4, 30 Toward the end of the eighth century B.C., Hezekiah built a new water system for Jerusalem, which incorporated part of the earlier system. A tunnel was constructed that brought water directly from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam. Two teams cut toward each other, one from the spring and one from the pool. The Siloam Inscription, which was discovered in the tunnel in 1880, describes the final moments of the meeting of the two teams.
32:5 he built another wall. In the 1970 excavation of Jerusalem in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, archaeologist Nahman Avigad discovered a wall 21 feet (6.4 m) thick from the eighth to seventh centuries B.C. It was probably erected by Hezekiah to protect the city against the invading Assyrians. The city wall was also extended to accommodate the growth in population caused by the influx of refugees from the north.
IV The assessment of Hezekiah
V The tests of Hezekiah