Bible Dictionary: Pride: Hezekiah, in Displaying his Resources

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2 Kings 20:13
And Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.
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2 Chronicles 32:31
However, in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
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Isaiah 39:2
And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.
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Temporal Advantages.
... Take, for instance, Hezekiah, one of the best of the ... thought would have beaten down
all pride and self ... we find this holy man ostentatiously displaying to them ...
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Sennacherib (705-681 BC )
... Hezekiah, King of Judah, had emptied his treasury to ... the decoration of his father's
palace there: his pride as a ... of the royal mausolea and "displaying to the ...
/.../chapter isennacherib 705-681 b c.htm

The Hebrews and the Philistines --Damascus
... youth." True Bedawins as they were, the chiefs' pride revolted at ... regarded also as
the natural issue of his peculiar position: the resources upon which ...
/.../chapter iiithe hebrews and the.htm

The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
... the haughtiest monarchs refer with pride to victories ... Judah" after the name of his
ancestor Hezekiah. ... for independence, were incapable of displaying any energy ...
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Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... the statues, so flattering to the national pride and piety ... the attendants assigned
to the conduct of his worship ... which goes back perhaps to the time of Hezekiah. ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm