2 Kings 20:1-9 ▼

1 In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death, and Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet went to him and said to him, “Thus says YHWH: ‘Set in order your house, for you shall die and not live.’”

2 And he turned his face toward the wall and prayed to YHWH, saying,

3 “Please, O YHWH, remember now how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and I have done good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept a great weeping.

4 And it came to pass—Isaiah had not gone out to the middle courtyard—that the word of YHWH came to him, saying,

5 “Return and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, thus says YHWH, the God of David your father: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of YHWH.

6 And I will add to your days fifteen years, and from the hand of the king of Assyria I will deliver you and this city, and I will cover over this city for My own sake and for the sake of David My servant.’”

7 And Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” And they took it and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What is the sign that YHWH will heal me, that I shall go up the third day to the house of YHWH?”

9 And Isaiah said, “This is to you the sign from YHWH, that YHWH will do the thing that He has spoken: Shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go backward ten degrees?”