THE AXE OF AHAZ VERSUS THE AXE OF HEZEKIAH
THE AXE OF AHAZ VERSUS HEZEKIAH Perhaps this story promises to be intriguing in any case. For most Bible readers this promises to be one of the stories which really shook up the pattern of history. It promises to be the moment where the Spirit of Truth overcame the Spirit of Deception with a counter force, Deception. It also promises to be the only time we ever saw two men confronted with the same dilemma and yet one took a very desperate decision and one perhaps a very remote one. The backdrop of this story is quite interesting and to those avid readers who like to caption the intro to the body, you will sure go like, “Hey Peeman, get to the point”. Okay, I hear you. It was of course a desperate time for Hezekiah. He had come to meet a fallen government who had left Israel in a bad state. With the help of God, he had rebuilt the nation of Israel and things seem to be going well until disaster ‘struck’ or let me just say in my native Ghanaian way, ‘happened’. King Sennacherib, the in