2 Kings 20:8-21 ▼

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?”

10 And Hezekiah answered, “It is light for the shadow to lengthen ten degrees. No, but let the shadow go backward ten degrees.”

11 And Isaiah the prophet cried out to YHWH, and He brought back the shadow by the degrees that it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz—backward ten degrees.

12 At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

13 And Hezekiah listened to them and showed them all the house of his treasure—the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and and the house of his armor, and all that was found among his treasures. There was not a thing that Hezekiah did not show them in his house and in all his dominion.

14 And Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They came from a distant land, from Babylon.”

15 And he said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah said, “All that is in my house, they have seen. There is not a thing that I have not shown them among my treasures.”

16 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of YHWH:

17 Behold, the days are coming, and will be lifted all that is in your house and that your fathers have accumulated until this day, to Babylon. Not a thing will be left, says YHWH.

18 And some of your sons who will go forth from you, whom you will beget, they will be taken and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

19 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of YHWH that you have spoken is good.” For he said, “Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?”

20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool and the tunnel and brought the water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Words of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

21 And Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.