Kings are remembered in lists, and the sages kept careful accounts. For Hezekiah, they drew up two columns.
On one side, the three things they praised him for.
First, he dragged the bones of his father Ahaz on a hurdle of ropes — denying the wicked king a royal burial, so that Israel would learn that idolatry brings no dignity even in death.
Second, he broke the brazen serpent Moses had made in the wilderness, because the people had begun to burn incense to it. What had once healed had become an idol, and even a Mosaic relic was not too sacred to smash.
Third, he hid the Book of Remedies. The sages reasoned that when people could reach for a cure without prayer, they stopped asking God for healing. Hezekiah removed the shortcut.
On the other side, three things they blamed him for. He stripped the gold from the Temple doors and sent it as tribute to the King of Assyria. He stopped up the upper waters of Gihon, diverting the spring before asking. And he intercalated the month of Nisan on his own authority, bending the calendar.
Pesachim 56a preserves the audit. Even a righteous king gets graded in two columns.