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Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery
(2 Chronicles 32:24–31, Isaiah 38:1–8)
In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said“This is what the LORD says:‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’ ”
2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying, 3 “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done [what is] good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard,[fn] the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 5 “Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says:‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. vvv I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD. 6 I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for My sake and for the sake of My servant David.’ ”
7Then Isaiah said,“Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and [Hezekiah] recovered.
8Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah,“What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
9And Isaiah had replied,“This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: [Would you like] the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”
10“It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah,“ but not for it to go back ten steps.”
11So Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz.
12Hezekiah Shows His Treasures
At that time Merodach-baladan[fn] son of Baladan king of Babylon sent vvv letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness. 13 And Hezekiah received [the envoys] and showed them all that was in his treasure house — the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his armory all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
14Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked,“Where did those men come from and what did they say to you?”
“They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied,“from Babylon.”
15“What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked.
“They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah.“There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
16Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah,“Hear the word of the LORD: 17 The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD. 18 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
19But Hezekiah said to Isaiah,“The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought,“Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?”
20Manasseh Succeeds Hezekiah
As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel[fn] to bring water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
21And Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and his son Manasseh reigned in his place.
20:4 LXX and an alternate MT reading; the other alternate reads the middle of the city
20:12 Some Hebrew manuscripts, LXX, and Syriac (see also Isaiah 39:1); MT Berodach-baladan
20:20 Or watercourse or conduit
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