2 Kings 20

2 Kings Chapter 20 KJV

1Hezekiah, warned by Isaiah to prepare for death, upon his prayer is promised an addition of fifteen years to his life: 8in confirmation whereof the shadow goeth ten degrees backward on the sundial of Ahaz. 12Berodach-baladan sendeth to congratulate Hezekiah on his recovery, who ostentatiously sheweth the ambassadors his treasures. 14Isaiah hearing this foretelleth the Babylonish captivity. 20Hezekiah dieth: Manasseh succeedeth him.
1 In 1those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, aSet thine house in order; for 2thou shalt die, and not live.
2 Then he 1turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, saying,
3 I beseech thee, O Lord, 1remember now how I have walked before thee in 2truth and with a perfect heart, and 3have done that which is good in thy sight. 4And Hezekiah awept sore.
4 And it came to pass, 1afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle acourt, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the 1captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, 2I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day 3thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord.
6 And I will 1add unto thy days fifteen years; and 2I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
7 And 1Isaiah said, Take a 2lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
8 ¶ And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the 1sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day?
9 And Isaiah said, This 1sign shalt thou have of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
11 And Isaiah the prophet 1cried unto the Lord: and 2he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the adial of Ahaz.
12 ¶ At 1that time aBerodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and 1shewed them all the house of his aprecious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oint-ment, and all the house of his barmour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was 2noth-ing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
14 ¶ Then 1came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, 2What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, 1All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord.
17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, 1shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.
18 And of 1thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, 1Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, aIs it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?
20 ¶ And 1the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how 2he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
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