That is because, suggests the Bible, Hezekiah “held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following him but kept the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses.”8 Well before Sennacherib’s invasion, according to the Bible, the young king would have ordered the destruction of the places where his subjects worshipped other gods and allowed only one place of worship in his entire realm—that of Yahweh at Jerusalem. It is because of Hezekiah’s prior loyalty to him that Yahweh protects Jerusalem from the Assyrians.
