히스기야 왕의 인장
설명
성경에 나오는 히스기야 왕의 왕실 인장이 고고학 발굴에서 발견되었습니다. 이 도장된 점토 인장, 즉 불라는 예루살렘 성전산 남쪽 벽 기슭에서 엘랏 마자르 박사가 이끄는 오펠 발굴에서 발견되었습니다. 이 발견은 발굴이 진행된 히브리 대학교 고고학 연구소의 보도 자료를 통해 발표되었습니다.
지름이 1센티미터가 조금 넘는 이 불라는 두 날개를 가진 태양 원반이 앙크 기호로 둘러싸여 있는 인장 인상을 지니고 있으며, "유다 왕 아하스의 아들 히스기야 소유"라는 히브리어 문구가 새겨져 있습니다. 이 불라는 오펠의 기원전 10세기 왕실 건물 옆에 위치한 쓰레기 더미에서 흙을 젖은 상태로 체질하는 과정에서 다른 33개의 도장된 불라와 함께 발견되었습니다.
고대 근동에서 점토 불라는 말아 올린 문서에 묶인 끈을 고정하는 데 사용되었습니다. 불라는 젖은 점토 덩어리에 인장을 눌러 만들어졌습니다. 도장된 불라는 서명 역할을 하며 문서의 진위성을 보장하는 수단으로 사용되었습니다.
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Hezekiah
whom Jehovah has strengthened.
Son of Ahaz (2Kings 18:1; 2Chr 29:1), whom he succeeded on the throne of the kingdom of Judah. He reigned twenty-nine years (B.C. 726-697). The history of this king is contained in (2Kings 18:20; Isa 36:1etc.; 37:1etc.; 38:1etc.; 39:1etc.), and (2Chr 29:1etc.; 30:1etc.; 31:1etc.; 32:1etc.). He is spoken of as a great and good king. In public life he followed the example of his great-granfather Uzziah. He set himself to abolish idolatry from his kingdom, and among other things which he did for this end, he destroyed the "brazen serpent," which had been removed to Jerusalem, and had become an object of idolatrous worship (Num 21:9). A great reformation was wrought in the kingdom of Judah in his day (2Kings 18:4; 2Chr 29:3-36).
On the death of Sargon and the accession of his son Sennacherib to the throne of Assyria, Hezekiah refused to pay the tribute which his father had paid, and "rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not," but entered into a league with Egypt (Isa 30:1etc.; 31:1etc.; 36:6-9). This led to the invasion of Judah by Sennacherib (2Kings 18:13-16), who took forty cities, and besieged Jerusalem with mounds. Hezekiah yielded to the demands of the Assyrian king, and agreed to pay him three hundred talents of silver and thirty of gold (2Kings 18:14).
But Sennacherib dealt treacherously with Hezekiah (Isa 33:1), and a second time within two years invaded his kingdom (2Kings 18:17; 2Chr 32:9; Isa 36:1etc.). This invasion issued in the destruction of Sennacherib's army. Hezekiah prayed to God, and "that night the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians 185,000 men." Sennacherib fled with the shattered remnant of his forces to Nineveh, where, seventeen years after, he was assassinated by his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer (2Kings 19:37). (See SENNACHERIB)
The narrative of Hezekiah's sickness and miraculous recovery is found in (2Kings 20:1; 2Chr 32:24; Isa 38:1). Various ambassadors came to congratulate him on his recovery, and among them Merodach-baladan, the viceroy of Babylon (2Chr 32:23; 2Kings 20:12). He closed his days in peace and prosperity, and was succeeded by his son Manasseh. He was buried in the "chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David" (2Chr 32:27-33). He had "after him none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him" (2Kings 18:5). (See ISAIAH)
EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary