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Among other antiquities, the town possessed Hezekiah's widowed mother, and when there was no very great hurry the world went slower in those days the dutiful son used to go ashore in the ship's boat, and after a filial tap at his mother's window, which often startled the old woman considerably, pass on his way to see a young lady to whom he had already proposed five times without effect.
Perhaps they have seen Christ there for them in some sense, but have never quite taken their place there with Him. Do you remember, too, Winifred, that it was when the burnt offering began on that great occasion in Hezekiah's time that 'the song of the Lord began also?" "Oh, yes!" Winifred responded. "'The song of the Lord! It has surely begun here, Adèle." And so it had, indeed.
R. Dozy, Professor of History and Oriental Languages at Leyden, Die Israeliten in Mecca, 1864. Dr. Dozy further contends that after Hezekiah's reign numerous Jewish exiles came to Arabia.
So in Palestine and in the Bible itself we see, first of all, the image-worship of Jacob's family, then the incipient elevation of Jehovah above all other Gods by Moses, the practical establishment of the worship of Jehovah alone by Samuel, the rise of spiritual sentiment under David and the Psalmists, the more magnificent views of Hezekiah's prophets, finally in the Babylonish captivity the new tenderness assumed by that second Isaiah and the later Psalmists.
I tell you I have no work to give." "I don't want work," said Hezekiah grimly. "I am a beggar." "Oh! is that all," said the man, relieved. "Here, take this ten dollars and go and buy a drink with it." Money! money! and with it a new sense of power that rushed like an intoxicant to Hezekiah's brain. "Drink," he muttered hoarsely, "yes, drink." The lights of a soda-water fountain struck his eye.
These impure faiths seem to have been very strictly maintained by Jews up to Hezekiah's days, and by none more so than by dissolute Solomon and his cruel, lascivious bandit-father, the brazen-faced adulterer and murderer, who broke his freely volunteered oath, and sacrificed six innocent sons of his king to his Javah."
She wore her best hat and dress, and she held Lionel Hezekiah by the hand. Lionel Hezekiah's beaming face was scrubbed clean, and his curls fell in beautiful sleekness over the lace collar of his velvet suit. "How do you feel now, Salome?" asked Judith gently. "Better. I've had a lovely sleep. But where are you going, Judith?"
He had "peeled off" the gold from the Temple, and sent it to the king of the Assyrians; therefore the disease that afflicted him caused his skin to "peel off." Moreover, this malady of Hezekiah's was brought upon him by God, to afford an opportunity for the king and the prophet Isaiah to come close to each other. The two had had a dispute on a point of etiquette.
She comes to the throne with such a prestige as never sovereign came since the days when Isaiah sang his paean over young Hezekiah's accession. She gathers round her, one by one, young men of promise, and trains them herself to their work. And they fulfil it, and serve her, and grow gray-headed in her service, working as faithfully, as righteously, as patriotically, as men ever worked on earth.
The last stage in Hezekiah's great sacrifice was 'thank-offerings, brought by 'as many as were of a willing heart. And will not the self-devotion, kindled by the fire of love, speak in daily life by practical service, and the whole activities of the redeemed man be a long thank-offering for the Lamb who 'bears away the sins of the world'? And if we do not thus offer our whole lives to God, how shall we profess to have taken the priceless benefit of Christ's death?
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