JEHIZKIAH.An Ephraimite who supported the prophet Oded in opposing the bringing of Judæan captives to Samaria (2Ch_28:12 ff.).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
JEHIZKIAH or HEZEKIAH. Son of Shallun, a chief of Ephraim, in Ahaz's time. At the prophet Oded's command he was one of those who withstood the returning warriors who wanted to keep their 200,000 brethren of Judah in captivity and the spoil taken by the Israelite king Pekah in one victory (2Ch_28:8-12). Jehizkiah and his noble helpers shod and clothed the naked, gave them to eat and drink, and carried all the feeble on donkeys to Jericho, on their way back to Judah (2Ch_28:15).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Jehizki'ah. (Jehovah strengthens). Son of Shallum, one of the heads of the tribe of Ephraim, in the time of Ahaz. 2Ch_28:12. Compare 2Ch_28:8; 2Ch_28:13; 2Ch_28:15. (B.C. 738).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
jē-hiz-kı̄?a (יחזקיּהוּ, yeḥizḳı̄yāhū, ?Yah strengthens?): One of the Ephraimite chiefs (2Ch_28:12) who with Obed are said to have opposed the enslavement of the Judahites taken captive by Pekah in his war against Ahaz (circa 734 bc).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Jehizkiah
(Heb. Yechizkiyah', only in the paragogic form Yechizkiya'hu, יְחַזְקַיָּהוּ, i.e. HEZEKIAH; Sept. Ε᾿ζεκίας), son of Shallum,' one of the Ephraimitish leaders who, at the instance of the prophet Oded (q.v.), insisted upon the liberation and humane treatment of the captives taken and brought to Samaria in the incursion of Pekah upon the kingdom of Judah. (2Ch_28:12; comp. 8,13,15). B.C. cir. 738.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.