5. Hezekiah trusted the Lord God of Israel. No king among all the kings of Judah was like Hezekiah.
6. He was loyal to the Lord and never turned away from him. He obeyed the commands that the Lord had given through Moses,
7. so the Lord was with him. He succeeded in everything he tried: He rebelled against the king of Assyria and wouldn’t serve him anymore.
8. He conquered the Philistines from the ⌊smallest⌋ watchtower to the ⌊largest⌋ fortified city all the way to Gaza and its territory.
9. In Hezekiah’s fourth year as king (which was the seventh year in the reign of King Hoshea, son of Elah of Israel) King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked Samaria, blockaded it,