Hezekiah won strong praise for his piety (in 2 Kings 18:3-6), and it is accounted part and parcel of his virtue that the Lord being with him, he went forth to war and achieved success in rebelling ...

Archaeology and history have confirmed the biblical description of Hezekiah and his reign over the southern kingdom of Judah (2 Kings 18-20, 2 Chronicles 29-32). Hezekiah was a remarkable leader, and ...

One of the most interesting figures in the bible is King Hezekiah—reformer, builder, and entirely historical, attested to in a passel of extra-biblical sources. New sources have been excavated over ...

A fragment of a cuneiform seal that’s now the first direct evidence of official communication between the kingdoms of Judah and Assyria has emerged at an archaeological site in Israel. According to ...

Chapter 17 These last few chapters of 2 Kings are like reading a history of Germany in the 1930s or watching the movie United 93. A terrible ending waits just around the corner, and you hope that it’s ...

Overview of olive oil industrial zone, city wall and three-way entry gate at Tel Miqne From Sy Gitin. (Ilan Stulman) Few sites have a more diverse archaeological repertoire than Ekron. Located on the ...

In the first of its kind, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), an "extremely rare" pottery shard bearing a cuneiform inscription in the Akkadian language from about 2,700 years ago was ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered an ancient Assyrian inscription that may shed light on historical events described in the Old Testament. The discovery, a tiny 2.5-centimeter pottery shard ...