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David and Hezekiah
How David and Hezekiah are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
David was an ancestor of Hezekiah.
Hezekiah was of David's line, and Kings says he did right according to all that David his father did. Isaiah brought him word from "the God of David thy father".
according to all that David his father did
2 Kings 18:3, King James Version
the God of David thy father
2 Kings 20:5, King James Version
Where they cross: 2 Kings 18:1-3
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
2 Kings 18:1-3
1Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
3And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
2 Kings 20:5
5Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord.
King James Version