Ezechias

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( Ε᾿Ζεκίας ), a mode of Anglicizing, in the Apocrypha, the name of two men.

1. The "son of Theocanus," and one of the two Israelitish leaders prominent in the reform under Ezra ( 1 Esdras 9:14); evidently the JAHAZIAH (See Jahaziah) (q.v.) of the Heb. text ( Ezra 10:15).

2. One who is represented as having prayed for the chosen people in the time of Sennacherib ( 2 Esdras 7:40), obviously referring to king HEZEKIAH (See Hezekiah) (q.v.)