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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1During this time, Hezekiah became sick with a fatal illness, so Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, approached him and told him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Put your household in order, because you are dying. You will not survive.'" |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2So Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Remember me, LORD," he said, "how I have walked in your presence with integrity, with an undivided heart, and I have accomplished what is good in your sight." And Hezekiah wept deeply. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Before Isaiah had left the middle court, this message from the LORD came to him. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Return to Hezekiah," he said, "and tell the Commander-in-Chief of my people: 'This is what the LORD, the God of your ancestor David, says: "I've heard your prayer and I've observed your tears. Look! I'm healing you. Three days from now, you'll go visit the LORD's Temple. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Furthermore, I'll add fifteen years to your life. I'll deliver you and this city from domination by the king of Assyria, and I'll defend this city for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."'" |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Isaiah said, "Take a fig cake." So some attendants took it, laid it on Hezekiah's boil, and he recovered. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, "What is to be the sign that the LORD is healing me and that I'll be going up to the LORD's Temple three days from now?" |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9So Isaiah replied, "This will be your sign from the LORD that the LORD will do what he has promised. Shall the shadow go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?" |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Hezekiah answered, "It's an easy thing for a shadow to lengthen ten steps. So let the shadow go backward ten steps." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11So Isaiah cried out to the LORD, who brought the shadow back ten steps after it had gone down the stairway of Ahaz. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Some time later, Berodach-baladan, the son of King Baladan of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, because he had heard that Hezekiah had been ill. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Hezekiah listened to the entourage and showed them his entire treasury, including the silver, gold, and spices, the precious oil, his armory, and everything that was inventoried in his treasuries. There was nothing in his household or in his holdings that Hezekiah did not show them. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and asked him, "What did these men have to say, and where did they come from?" Hezekiah replied, "They came from a country far away—from Babylon." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He asked, "What did they see in your household?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen everything. In my household there is nothing in my treasuries that I haven't shown them." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then Isaiah replied to Hezekiah, "Listen to this message from the LORD: |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Watch out! The days are coming when everything that's in your house—everything that your ancestors have saved up right to this day—will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left,' declares the LORD. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Some of your descendants—your very own seed, whom you will father—will be carried away to become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.'" |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19At this, Hezekiah replied to Isaiah, "What you've spoken from the LORD is good," because he had been thinking, "Why not, as long as there's peace and security in my lifetime…?" |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Now the rest of Hezekiah's actions, as well as his glorious deeds, including how he constructed the pool and the conduit to bring water into the city, are recorded in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah, are they not? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Hezekiah died, as did his ancestors, and his son Manasseh became king in his place. |
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