The series' first episode, an hour long, was broadcast on TLC on September 26, 2010, and the first season continued with six half-hour chapters until October 17, 2010. The broadcast of Sister Wives came at a time that polygamy and multiple marriages were a prevalent topic in American pop culture.
All but one of the kingâs ministers remained loyal to the king. The only traitor was Shebna the scribe, leader of a strong party. He was an appeaser, and was all for making peace with the enemy at all costs. So Shebna wrote a letter to Sennacherib agreeing to surrender with all his followers.
For thirteen years Hezekiah reigned over Judah in peace and happiness, and then Gâd put him to his greatest test. Not far from Judah, just across the Jordan River, reigned a mighty king, Sennacherib king of Assyria. All the kings and princes in the neighboring lands feared him, and even Hezekiah paid tribute to him, so that all his treasury became empty.