Hezekiah...

Hezekiah became king when he was 25 years old... can you imagine running a country when you are only 25 years old.. I am honest enough to admit that I did not have a lick of sense at 25 and would have been NO GOOD in leadership... he was king of Judah and within the first week of his reign he began opening up the temple that had been closed by the previous kings... he appointed priests from the levites to purify themselves then begin to restore and cleanse and purify the temple.. it took only 16 days.. they began again to worship God as they had been taught by their ancestors.. they sacrificed before the Lord... they again began to hold the feasts that were commanded in the law.. they celebrated God as they did in the previous days... he was pleasing to God...

he rebelled against the Assyrian king whom the Judeans had previously paid tribute to... the Assyrian army intended to destroy him as they had done to the previous kings of Judah.. but Hezekiah trusted God and God told him through Isaiah the prophet not to worry.. that God would rescue him.. and surely while the Assyrian king talked much noise about God being unable to rescue them.. they were defeated while they were sleeping by the army of the Lord.. and Hezekiah did not even fight against them.. they went running back home.. and the Assyrian king (Sennacherib) was killed by his own sons...there was peace in the land of Judah while Hezekiah was king because he was pleasing in the eyes of the Lord...

Hezekiah developed a boil and was on the way to death... Isaiah came and told him to get his affairs in order that he was going to die.. and he cried out to the Lord and reminded God how faithful he had been to him.. so God sent Isaiah right back in the room to tell him he would live.. giving him 15 more years... Isaiah told them what to use to make an ointment and Hezekiah was healed... God moved the sundial back 10steps as a sign of his healing.. meaning God moved back time.. (I am unsure how much time is measured by a step on a sundial)

a babylonian king came to visit Hezekiah and to wish him well... Hezekiah took him all through the palace showing him everything that Hezekiah had.. God considered this pride.. and later on.. the babylonians took everything that was in the palace... and Hezekiah was just thankful that it did not happen in his lifetime... (I could see me thinking like that.. but I wouldn't want my sons to endure it either...)

Hezekiah did good in the eyes of the Lord...