For biblical scholars, Jews and Christians alike, this is yet another piece of evidence supporting the biblical account. In the Bible, Hezekiah was the 13th king of Judah. According to 2 Chronicles 29:2, “he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.” Isaiah 38 says Hezekiah’s prayer when facing death from a disease caused the Lord to change his mind concerning him and order Isaiah the prophet to pronounce healing. The writing style on the fragment is similar to another inscription thought to have been written prior to the Assyrian King Sennacherib’s siege of Jerusalem in 701 B.C… (READ MORE)

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