Saturday 2021.08.14
Shabbat Shalom. Today is the seventh day of the biblical week. Shabbat in Malay is called "Sabtu". Let us rest from all our work.
This morning I read Second Kings chapters eighteen through twenty. This portion of scriptures contain the account of King Hezekiah ben Ahaz, the greatest and mostly Godly King of the southern Kingdom of Judah.
Hezekiah ben Ahaz became king of Judah at the age of 25, in the 3rd year of Hoshea ben Elah King of Israel. His mother was Abijah bat Zechariah. Hezekiah ruled Judah for 29 years.
2 Kings 18:5,6 states that there was no other king like Hezekiah in Judah, neither before nor after him.
2 Kings 18:5,6 GNB
5Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel; Judah never had another king like him, either before or after his time. 6He was faithful to the LORD and never disobeyed him, but carefully kept all the commands that the LORD had given Moses.
