Hezekiah: Hezekiah (ca. 727/726–698/697 B.C.) is certainly one of the Chronicler’s favorite kings. Excluding the Chronicler’s accounts of David and Solomon, this is the most extensive of all the royal narratives, stretching over four chapters (2 Chron. 29–32). Here the Chronicler composed an almost completely new narrative with very specific ideas on how to portray this king.

A major event that is described in full by the Deuteronomist (in 2 Kgs. 17) but omitted totally by the Chronicler is the fall of Samaria and the northern kingdom, Israel, to the Assyrians in 722 B.C. (i.e., during Hezekiah’s reign over Judah). This introduced a new phase in Judah’s history in which they were the only surviving Israelite kingdom. M. A. Throntveit (When Kings Speak: Royal Speech and Royal Prayer in Chron…