Chizkiya HaMelech and Yeshaya HaNavi
Yeshaya HaNavi tells the dying Chizkiya he is punished for not marrying. Chizkiya prays despite the decree, gains fifteen years and marries Yeshaya's daughter.
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Yeshaya HaNavi tells the dying Chizkiya he is punished for not marrying. Chizkiya prays despite the decree, gains fifteen years and marries Yeshaya's daughter.
After his father Achaz's idolatry, King Chizkiyahu leads a teshuvah movement and adds Adar Sheini so the people can purify themselves for the Korban Pesach.
When Sancheirev besieges Yerushalayim, Chizkiyahu prays and 185,000 officers die by fire within, their bodies spared as a reward for Shem honoring Noach.
Sancheirev's vast army besieges Yerushalayim, but an angel strikes 185,000 soldiers in the night, a merit of the Torah study Chizkiyahu enforced with a sword.
Yeshayahu tells the gravely ill Chizkiyahu he will die for not having children; Chizkiyahu prays anyway, gains fifteen years, and the sun goes back ten hours.
The copper snake Moshe made to heal the Bnei Yisrael lasted 700 years until people worshipped it, and King Chizkiyahu destroyed what his righteous ancestors had left standing.