5, 6. He trusted in the Lord God of Israel —without invoking the aid or purchasing the succor of foreign auxiliaries like Asa ( 1 Kings 15:18 ; 1 Kings 15:19 ) and Ahaz ( 2 Kings 16:17 ; Isaiah 7:1-25 ). so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah —Of course David and Solomon are excepted, they having had the sovereignty of the whole country. In the petty kingdom of Judah, Josiah alone had a similar testimony borne to him ( Isaiah 7:1-23.7.25- : ). But even he was surpassed by Hezekiah, who set about a national reformation at the beginning of his reign, which Josiah did not. The pious character and the excellent course of Hezekiah was prompted, among other secondary influences, by a sense of the calamities his father's wicked career had brought on the country, as well as by the counsels of Isaiah. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-7" class="com-number"
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