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Secular commentators, in attempting to reconcile Hezekiah's reign with [[Assyrian chronology|Assyrian records]], cannot agree on a chronological placement for Hezekiah's reign. Their difficulties arise mainly from the inexactitude of the Assyrian records, the probable interpolation of a king between Shalmaneser and Sennacherib, and their own skepticism about the [[Bible]] itself.

Secular commentators, in attempting to reconcile Hezekiah's reign with [[Assyrian chronology|Assyrian records]], cannot agree on a chronological placement for Hezekiah's reign. Their difficulties arise mainly from the inexactitude of the Assyrian records, the probable interpolation of a king between Shalmaneser and Sennacherib, and their own skepticism about the [[Bible]] itself.

The conventionally accepted date for Sennacherib's Egyptian-Ethiopian-Palestinian-Judean War is 701 BC.<ref name=Velikovsky>[[Immanual Velikovsky|Velikovsky, Immanuel]], [http://www.varchive.org/tac/hezekiah.htm The Reign of King Hezekiah]. ''[http://www.varchive.org/tac/index.htm The Assyrian Conquest]''. Retrieved May 30, 2007.</ref><ref name=BHC>Authors unknown. "[http://www.biblicalheritage.org/People/hezekiah.htm Entry for Hezekiah]." [http://www.biblicalheritage.org/index.htm Bible Heritage Center], 2007. Retrieved May 30, 2007.</ref><ref name=LoveToKnow/> [[Edwin R. Thiele]], in order to make his chronology agree with that date, simply assumed ''a priori'' that the Biblical text was wrong and that the syncrhonies with Hezekiah's birth and accession were not to be trusted--except that he assumed that Hezekiah lived on to the year 686 BC and made his son Manasseh his [[viceroy]] in 697 BC, when Manasseh was twelve years old.

The conventionally accepted date for Sennacherib's Egyptian-Ethiopian-Palestinian-Judean War is 701 BC.<ref name=Velikovsky>[[Immanual Velikovsky|Velikovsky, Immanuel]], [http://www.varchive.org/tac/hezekiah.htm The Reign of King Hezekiah]. ''[http://www.varchive.org/tac/index.htm The Assyrian Conquest]''. Retrieved May 30, 2007.</ref><ref name=BHC>Authors unknown. "[http://www.biblicalheritage.org/People/hezekiah.htm Entry for Hezekiah]." [http://www.biblicalheritage.org/index.htm Bible Heritage Center], 2007. Retrieved May 30, 2007.</ref><ref name=LoveToKnow/> [[Edwin R. Thiele]], in order to make his chronology agree with that date, simply assumed ''[[a priori]]'' that the Biblical text was wrong and that the syncrhonies with Hezekiah's birth and accession were not to be trusted--except that he assumed that Hezekiah lived on to the year 686 BC and made his son Manasseh his [[viceroy]] in 697 BC, when Manasseh was twelve years old.

The ''New Bible Dictionary''<ref name=NBD>Wood, D. R. W., Millard, A. R., Packer, J. I., Wiseman, D. J., and Marshall, J. Howard, eds. ''New Bible Dictionary''. InterVarsity Press, 1996. ISBN 0830814396</ref> took a different approach and simply made multiple changes in reckoning, as follows:

The ''New Bible Dictionary''<ref name=NBD>Wood, D. R. W., Millard, A. R., Packer, J. I., Wiseman, D. J., and Marshall, J. Howard, eds. ''New Bible Dictionary''. InterVarsity Press, 1996. ISBN 0830814396</ref> took a different approach and simply made multiple changes in reckoning, as follows: