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Hezekiah's Fourteenth Year

Hezekiah's Fourteenth Year HEZEKIAH'S FOURTEENTH YEAR A new interpretation of 2 Kings xviii 13-xix 37 1) by A. K. JENKINS Serampore There can be no date as tantalizing to the Old Testament historian as "the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah" in 2 K. xviii 13 // Is. xxxvi 1. In Kings the date introduces an account of a payment of tribute by Hezekiah to Sennacherib, king of Assyria (vv. 14-16). This corresponds closely to Sennacherib's own account of his campaign against Hezekiah in 701 B.C. 2), so that the date in 2 K. xviii 13 would seem to provide an assured fixed point for the chronology of the period. Yet a date of 715 B.C. for the accession of Hezekiah, although widely adopted, is difficult to reconcile with the synchronisms of 2 K. xviii 1, 9, 10 according to which Hezekian was already on the throne when Samaria fell in 722 B.C. In Isaiah on the other hand "the fourteenth year" (Is. xxxvi 1) introduces an account of Jerusalem's deliverance from Assyria (Is. xxxvi 2 ff // 2 K. xviii 17 ff.). To com- plicate matters it is not clear whether or not the payment of tribute took place during the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

Hezekiah's Fourteenth Year

Vetus Testamentum , Volume 26 (3): 284 – Jan 1, 1976

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Brill
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© 1976 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0042-4935
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1568-5330
DOI
10.1163/156853376X00475
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Abstract

HEZEKIAH'S FOURTEENTH YEAR A new interpretation of 2 Kings xviii 13-xix 37 1) by A. K. JENKINS Serampore There can be no date as tantalizing to the Old Testament historian as "the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah" in 2 K. xviii 13 // Is. xxxvi 1. In Kings the date introduces an account of a payment of tribute by Hezekiah to Sennacherib, king of Assyria (vv. 14-16). This corresponds closely to Sennacherib's own account of his campaign against Hezekiah in 701 B.C. 2), so that the date in 2 K. xviii 13 would seem to provide an assured fixed point for the chronology of the period. Yet a date of 715 B.C. for the accession of Hezekiah, although widely adopted, is difficult to reconcile with the synchronisms of 2 K. xviii 1, 9, 10 according to which Hezekian was already on the throne when Samaria fell in 722 B.C. In Isaiah on the other hand "the fourteenth year" (Is. xxxvi 1) introduces an account of Jerusalem's deliverance from Assyria (Is. xxxvi 2 ff // 2 K. xviii 17 ff.). To com- plicate matters it is not clear whether or not the payment of tribute took place during the

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Published: Jan 1, 1976

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