| Chapter
20 |
| 1 | In
those 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, Set thine house in order;
for thou shalt die, and not live. |
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2 | Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
saying, |
| 3 | I beseech thee,
O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect
heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept
sore. |
| 4 | And it came to
pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the
LORD came to him, saying, |
| 5 |
Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the
LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the
house of the LORD. |
| 6 | And
I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I 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 Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and
laid it on the boil, and he recovered. |
| 8 | And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign
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 sign 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 cried unto the
LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down
in the dial of Ahaz. |
| 12 |
At that time Berodachbaladan, 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 showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver,
and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of
his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his
house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not. |
| 14 | Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king
Hezekiah, and said unto him, What 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, All the things that
are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I
have not showed 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, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD. |
| 18 | And of thy 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, Good
is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if
peace and truth be in my days? |
| 20
| And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he
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. |
