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Hezekiah's
Illness and Recovery |
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| 2 Kings 20:1 |
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In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill.
And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says
the LORD, 'Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'" |
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| 2 Kings 20:2 |
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Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed
to the LORD, saying, |
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| 2 Kings 20:3 |
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"Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, how I
have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart and have done what is good
in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. |
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| 2 Kings 20:4 |
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Before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court,
the word of the LORD came to him, saying, |
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| 2 Kings 20:5 |
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"Return and say to Hezekiah the leader of My
people, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David, "I have heard your
prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you. On the third day you
shall go up to the house of the LORD. |
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| 2 Kings 20:6 |
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I will add fifteen years to your life, and I
will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will
defend this city for My own sake and for My servant David's sake."'" |
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| 2 Kings 20:7 |
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Then Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." And
they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. |
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| 2 Kings 20:8 |
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Now Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What will be the
sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD
the third day?" |
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| 2 Kings 20:9 |
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Isaiah said, "This shall be the sign to you
from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that He has spoken: shall the shadow
go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?" |
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| 2 Kings 20:10 |
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So Hezekiah answered, "It is easy for the shadow
to decline ten steps; no, but let the shadow turn backward ten steps." |
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| 2 Kings 20:11 |
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Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD, and He
brought the shadow on the stairway back ten steps by which it had gone down on
the stairway of Ahaz. |
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Hezekiah
Shows Babylon His Treasures |
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| 2 Kings 20:12 |
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At that time Berodach-baladan a son of Baladan,
king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah
had been sick. |
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| 2 Kings 20:13 |
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Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all
his treasure house, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious oil
and the house of his armor and all that was found in his treasuries. There was
nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them. |
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| 2 Kings 20:14 |
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Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah
and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where have they come to you?"
And Hezekiah said, "They have come from a far country, from Babylon." |
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| 2 Kings 20:15 |
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He said, "What have they seen in your house?"
So Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing
among my treasuries that I have not shown them." |
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| 2 Kings 20:16 |
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Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word
of the LORD. |
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| 2 Kings 20:17 |
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'Behold, the days are coming when all that is
in your house, and all that your fathers have laid up in store to this day will
be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,' says the LORD. |
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| 2 Kings 20:18 |
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'Some of your sons who shall issue from you,
whom you will beget, will be taken away; and they will become officials in the
palace of the king of Babylon.'" |
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| 2 Kings 20:19 |
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Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the
LORD which you have spoken is good." For he thought, "Is it not so, if there will
be peace and truth in my days?" |
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| 2 Kings 20:20 |
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Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and all
his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the
city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? |
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| 2 Kings 20:21 |
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So Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh
his son became king in his place. |
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