And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Abia. The last syllable is neglected, 4 Kings xviii. 2. (Haydock)
Some assert that she was a descendant of the high priest, who had been stoned. (St. Jerome, Trad.) (Chap. xxiv. 20.) (Tirinus)
As corrector of an inert People
That emulator [of David] Hezekiah arose;
He restored the Law to a sinful, forgetful people
All God’s mandates of old, he first
Commanded the people to observe,
Who ended war by his prayers,
Not by steel’s point: he, dying, had a grant
Of years and times of life made to his tears
Deservedly such honor his career obtained. - "Five Books in Reply to Marcion 3.176–183"