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Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> begins the detailed narrative of the reign of Hezekiah, the 13<\/span>th<\/span> King of Judah. This narrative continues until Hezekiah\u2019s burial in<\/span> II Chronicles 32:32-33<\/span><\/a>. The parallel text in<\/span> II Kings 18:1<\/span><\/a>-<\/span>20:26<\/span><\/a> notes that: \u201c...Hezekiah\u2019s reign, and all his exploits\u2026are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Judah\u201d. <\/span>Our chapter<\/span><\/a> adds that Hezekiah\u2019s \u201cfaithful acts are recorded in the visions of the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel\u201d. Indeed, Hezekiah reigned (697\u2013642 BCE) during the time of the Prophets Isaiah and Micah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A seal impression reading \"Belonging to Hezekiah [son of] Ahaz king of Judah\" was discovered in Jerusalem. Sennacherib, king of Assyria, claims in a cuneiform text that he made Hezekiah \u201ca prisoner in Jerusalem, his royal residence, like a bird in a cage\u201d (see <\/span>Ancient Near Eastern Texts Related to the Old Testament<\/span><\/em>, page 288). However, according to<\/span> our chapter<\/span><\/a> (compare<\/span> II Kings 19:35-36<\/span><\/a> and<\/span> Isaiah 37:36-37<\/span><\/a>), through the intervention of an angel, Sennacherib did not conquer Jerusalem, but retreated in disgrace to his capital Ninveh, where he was murdered by his own sons.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In addition to his<\/span> cleansing of the Temple and other religious reforms<\/span><\/a>, Hezekiah constructed the<\/span> Siloam Tunnel<\/span><\/a>, and the<\/span> Broad Wall<\/span><\/a> to protect Jerusalem from Assyrian conquest (see<\/span> II Chronicles 32:2-5<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hezekiah is the subject of many <\/span>post-biblical legends<\/span><\/a>. According to<\/span> Bavli Sanhedrin 63b<\/span><\/a>, Hezekiah\u2019s wicked father, King Ahaz, attempted to sacrifice him to<\/span> Moloch<\/span><\/a>. But his mother,<\/span> Abijah<\/span><\/a>, saved him by anointing him with the blood of the fire-retardant salamander, which protected him from the fire of this blood-thirsty idol. Elaborating on the Scriptural praise of Hezekiah, that \u201che did what was pleasing to the Lord, just as his father David had done\u201d (<\/span>II Chronicles 29:2<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> II Kings 18:3<\/span><\/a>), the sages particularly extol Hezekiah\u2019s extraordinary support of Torah study.<\/span> Sanhedrin 94b<\/span><\/a> states that: \u201cThe yoke of Sennacherib was destroyed due to the oil of Hezekiah that would burn in the synagogues and study halls [when the Jewish people were engaged in Torah study at night]. The <\/span>Gemara<\/span><\/i> goes on to ask: \u201cWhat did Hezekiah do to ensure Torah study?\u201d \u201cHe placed a sword at the entrance of the study hall and said: \u2018Anyone who does not engage in Torah study shall be stabbed with this sword\u2019! As a result, during Hezekiah\u2019s reign no unlearned person was to be found in the Land of Israel, and there was no man or woman, young or old, who was not expert even in the complex <\/span>halakhot<\/span><\/i> of ritual purity and impurity!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For this reason, King Hezekiah was buried, not only \u201con the upper part of the tombs of the sons of David\u201d (<\/span>II Chronicles 32:33<\/span><\/a>), but according to<\/span> Bavli Bava Kamma 17a<\/span><\/a>, a Torah scroll was laid upon his bier while the many mourners declared: \u201cThis one (i.e., Hezekiah) fulfilled that which is written in this (i.e., the Torah scroll)\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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With the period of King Ahaz now over, his successor King Hezekiah, immediately sets out to reverse the desecration wreaked on the Temple. The effort necessitates ridding the Temple of idols and purifying the priests and Levites who conduct the Temple services. We are told that it took a full eight days to remove all the idols, and King Hezekiah was worried. The month of Nissan was upon them, and Passover (Pesach) was fast approaching. It wasn\u2019t just the re-consecration of the Temple that Hezekiah sought. He also saw an opportunity to reunite the divided Jewish nation, leveraging the upcoming Passover festival in which the centerpiece was the Pesach offering. Hezekiah wanted to extend an invitation to all the northern tribes of Israel to come to Jerusalem and observe Passover with the Judahites as one united people. But the calendar was moving too quickly, and there wasn\u2019t enough time either for all the priests and Levites to purify themselves or for the northern tribes to complete the journey. Hezekiah had an elegant solution: call a leap year (the calendar wasn\u2019t as fixed then as it is now) and make the current month of Nissan the leap month of Adar 2. Then Pesach would be pushed off for another month, allowing all the necessary blocks to fall into place on time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The sages of the time were opposed to Hezekiah\u2019s plan on two grounds. First, because of the law in place that if an entire community was deemed impure, they would all, paradoxically, be deemed pure. So, there was no issue with purification of the Levites. The sages were, however, opposed to fiddling with the calendar, because of other laws in place that proscribed how and when that could be done. This instance, they concluded, didn\u2019t meet the letter of that law.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is a certain poetic irony in Hezekiah\u2019s proposed solution. When the Jewish nation first divided into two Kingdoms, Jeroboam, the first king of the northern nation of Israel, was so emphatically committed to divisiveness, that as the holiday of Sukkot approached \u2013 a holiday in which the people of his kingdom would normally travel to the Temple in Jerusalem - he sought to ensure that the nations did not unite. Jeroboam\u2019s solution for that possibility was to create a new Sukkot festival in Israel, exactly one month after Sukkot was celebrated in Judah, thus shifting the calendar by one month for his nation. Now, Hezekiah is re-syncing the calendar in order to achieve reunification.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Despite their objection, Hezekiah\u2019s sages did not prevent him from declaring a leap year. Perhaps they appreciated the significance of Hezekiah\u2019s plan to unify the nation. We know that in Jewish law saving a life overrides the usual religious rules \u2013 we call it <\/span>pikuach nefesh<\/span><\/em> \u2013 preservation of life. Maybe the reunification of the kingdoms was a case of <\/span>pikuach nefesh<\/span><\/em> for the Jewish nation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Chapter 29 begins the story of one of the greatest kings of Judah, Hezekiah. His first act is to clean out the Temple and purify it from the acts of his father and those kings before him. After the massive cleaning is complete, the Levites and priests inform the king that their work is complete.\u00a0 The text then states: \u201cKing Hezekiah rose early, gathered the officers of the city, and went up to the House of the L<\/span>ORD<\/span>\u201d (verse 20).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The use of this word \u201crise up early\u201d (<\/span>vayashkem<\/span><\/em>) has specific connotations in the Torah. The word usually introduces a very deliberate and important event that is about to take place or that just took place. The word is used most often with Abraham. \u201cNext morning, Abraham hurried to the place where he had stood before the L<\/span>ORD<\/span>\u201d (Genesis 19:27) after Abraham pleads with God to save Sodom, he gets up early to try to see what happened to the city. \u201cEarly next morning Abraham took some bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar. He placed them over her shoulder, together with the child, and sent her away.\u201d (Genesis 21:14). Abraham must expel his concubine at the direction of his wife Sarah and God. This is the first step in anointing his son Isaac as his heir.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The most famous usage is \u201cSo early next morning, Abraham saddled his ass and took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and he set out for the place of which God had told him\u201d (Genesis 22:3). This is the beginning of the story of the binding of Isaac. Rashi explains that \u201che awoke\u201d implies that Abraham was alert and ready to do whatever God asked, even to sacrifice his son.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Other instances of the word include Jacob after his vision of the angels and the ladder (Genesis 28:18) and Moses the morning after receiving the Ten Commandments from God (Exodus 24:4). The inclusion of this phrase here with Hezekiah is no accident then. The word does not appear in the II Kings version of the story. The word is used here to link the righteous king to these great men and to show that his act of building the Temple was deliberate and important and done with a clear heart and focused mind.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The next three chapters (29-30-31) have almost no parallel in 2 Kings. Conversely, the corresponding Chapter 17 and most of 18 of 2 Kings have nearly no parallel in 2 Chronicles. Once again, the determining factor is, to coin a term, Judeo-centricity. The focus of the Chronicler is on the activities of the kings of Judah, so 2 Kings 17-18, which deal with Hosea ben Elah, the last king of northern Israel and describe the destruction of that kingdom by the Assyrians and the subsequent exile of the ten northern tribes, are ignored. Likewise, the amount of detail provided here for the activities of Judean King Hezekiah is neglected in 2 Kings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One of these details concerns the instructions the king issued to \u201cthe priests and the Levites\u201d (4) when, \u201cin the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the House of the L<\/span>ORD<\/span> and repaired them\u201d (3). Those instructions were: \u201cSanctify yourselves and sanctify the House of the L<\/span>ORD<\/span> God of your fathers and take the abhorrent things out of the holy place\u201d (5). The Hebrew term used for \u201cthe abhorrent things\u201d is <\/span>ha<\/span>-niddah<\/span><\/em>, whose first 12 (of 29) appearances\u2014all in Leviticus\u2014clearly designate a menstruant woman, who is prohibited to her husband until she undergoes a ritual of purification. 5 of its next 6 uses\u2014all in Numbers\u2014designate the mixture of water and ash that are used in the purification of someone, or something, that has come into contact with a corpse.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Of 5 appearances in Ezekiel, only one is unquestionably referring to the menstruant woman; the remainder use the term metaphorically to designate something \u201cuntouchable\u201d or, as it is translated here, \u201cabhorrent.\u201d But what, specifically, is it referring to here? Starting with the Aramaic Targum, which rendered it as <\/span>richuka<\/span><\/em> (rejection or abomination), the exegetes largely identified it here as idolatry. Pseudo-Rashi and Radak explicitly call it idolatry (<\/span>avodah zarah<\/span><\/em>), Ralbag, perhaps euphemistically, calls it <\/span>tum\u2019ah<\/span><\/em> (impurity), and Malbim adds an explanatory note to the effect that idolatry is so called because it shares with the menstruant the property of passing along its impurity through physical contact.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A more poignant use of the menstruant as metaphor is the prophet Jeremiah\u2019s description of a vanquished Jerusalem as: \u201cZion spreads out her hands, she has no one to comfort her; the L<\/span>ORD<\/span> has summoned against Jacob His enemies all about him; Jerusalem has become among them a thing unclean (<\/span>l\u2019niddah<\/span><\/em>)\u201d (Lamentations 1:17).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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29:1 \u201cHezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old, and twenty-nine years he was king in Jerusalem, and his mother\u2019s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The corresponding report about Hezekiah in the Deuteronomistic History begins in 2 Kings 18, but all the details are different, with the two sources agreeing only that Hezekiah was a pious king who initiated cultic reforms.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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  1. Comp lit.<\/em> The history of King Hezekiah is told in 2 Kings 18-20 and in Isaiah 36-39, but regarding what is told in our chapter (except for the opening two verses) - there is no parallel.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. It\u2019s a matter of priorities.<\/em> Four chapters in Chronicles recount the reign of Hezekiah (29-32). Three of them tell of his activity and his reforms in the religious realm, while only one of the dramatic political events of his period. This is in line with what we know is important to the Chronicler.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. It\u2019s a matter of time (I).<\/em> Hezekiah projects conscientiousness and dedication to the task, and the chronology of his actions in the chapter testify to this: \u201cHe, in the first month of the first year of his reign, opened the doors of the House of the LORD and repaired them\u201d (verse 3), and immediately following, the Temple was purified: \u201cKing Hezekiah rose early, gathered the officers of the city, and went up to the House of the LORD\u201d (verse 20).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. It\u2019s a matter of time (II).<\/em> The purification of the Temple occurred in the first month, which is Nisan, \u201cThey began the sanctification on the first day of the first month\u2026 They sanctified the House of the LORD for eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished\u201d (verse 17). Pesach falls on the 14th day of the month. The Temple wasn\u2019t ready in time. What to do?? See tomorrow\u2019s chapter.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. It\u2019s a matter of time (III).<\/em> The dedication of the Tabernacle in Moses\u2019 day was also in the month of Nisan (see Ex. 40).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  6. Pleasant surprise.<\/em> \u201cHezekiah and all the people rejoiced over what God had enabled the people to accomplish, because it had happened so suddenly\u201d (verse 36) - What was \u201cit\u201d? The purification of the Temple? The enthusiastic response of the people? Both? 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    \u201c<\/a>\u05de\u05d0\u05d9<\/a> \u05d7\u05e0\u05d5\u05db\u05d4<\/a>\u201d<\/a> by Rabbi Netanel Weil<\/p>\r\n

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