1.51 King Hezekiah, Father of Biblical Religion

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 26 February 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In 722 BC, Hezekiah of Judah faced his first great crisis: a mass of Israelite refugees fleeing from the Assyrians. He turned adversity into opportunity, strengthening his authority and using the Israelite intellectuals to create a nationalistic religion: Biblical religion. His second crisis was the invasion of Sennacherib of Assyria. The king saved his city, but lost the countryside.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.
0:24.8	All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles.
0:46.7	Episode. Episode 1.51. King Hezekiah, father of biblical religion.
0:53.8	In the last episode of the history in the Bible, I introduced King Hezekiah of Judah, the monarch who watched in dread as the
0:57.0	kingdom of Israel was obliterated by Assyria.
1:01.0	The Israelite refugees fleeing into Judah from that calamity transformed his tiny kingdom.
1:09.0	Hezekiah's whole reign is the story of how he turned that refugee crisis into an opportunity
1:16.0	to secure his monarchy and his state.
1:19.9	In doing so, he accidentally became the father of biblical religion.
1:25.2	By that I mean, simply, the religion of the Hebrews, as we see it
1:29.9	portrayed in the abundantly edited Old Testament that we have today. That religion did not
1:37.1	exist when Hezekiah took the throne, much though the Bible wants us to think otherwise.
1:43.7	In the last episode of series one of this podcast,
1:47.3	I'll present a comprehensive discussion of the development of biblical religion.
1:52.8	Hang in there, guys. It's only a few weeks away.
1:56.0	One of the first actions attributed to Hezekiah concerns serpents.
2:03.6	The Book of Numbers chapter 21 relates how Moses fashioned a copper servant to protect the Israelites. Quote, Numbers 216.
2:11.6	The Lord sent poisonous serpents against the people. They bit the people, and many of the Israelites died.
2:20.8	The people came to Moses and said,
2:23.7	We sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you.
2:28.4	Intercede with the Lord to take away the serpents from us.
2:32.4	And Moses interceded for the people. Then the Lord said to Moses,
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