Strength of His Hand (Chronicles of the Kings Book #3)

He has achieved enormous wealth and power--yet there is no heir.The legacy Hezekiah has established as one of Judah's great leaders is threatened: his beloved wife, Hephzibah, remains barren. Desperate to provide a successor to her husband's throne, Hephzibah makes a forbidden pact with the fertility goddess Asherah.Feeling repulsed and betrayed by her act of idolatry, Hezekiah destroys the pagan ...