2 Kings 20

In those days, Hezekiah was sick to dying. And Isaiah, the son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, “Thus says God, ‘Command regarding your house, for you are dying, and you will not live.’”

And he turned his face to the wall, and he prayed to God, saying,

“Oh God, please remember that I have walked about to your face in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and I have done good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept a great weeping. \*

And it happened, Isaiah had not gone out {of} the middle courtyard, and the word of God was to him, saying,

“Return, and you shall say to Hezekiah, the leader of my people, ‘Thus says God, the God of David your father, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your weeping. Behold me, healing you. On the third day, you will go up {to} the house of God. \*

And I will add 15 years to your days, and I will deliver you and this city from the palm of the king of Assyria. And I will cover over this city for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.”’”

And Isaiah said, “Bring a cake of figs.” And they brought {it}, and they put {it} on the sore, and he lived. \*

Now Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What {is} the sign that God will heal me, that I will go up on the third day to the house of God?”

And Isaiah said, “This {is} the sign for you from God that God will do the thing that he has spoken. The shadow has gone forward ten steps. If it shall go back ten steps?” \*

And Hezekiah said, “It is easy for the shadow to stretch out ten steps. No, but let the shadow go backward ten steps.”

And Isaiah the prophet called to God, and he made the shadow go back on the steps that it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz, backward ten steps. \*

At that time, Berodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, the king of Babylon, sent writings and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah was sick.

And Hezekiah listened to them, and he showed them the whole house of his treasure, the silver and the gold and the spices and the fine oil and the house of his armor and everything that was found in his treasuries. There was not a thing that Hezekiah did not show them in his house or in all of his realm. \*

And Isaiah the prophet came 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.”

And he said, “What did they see in your house?” And Hezekiah said, “They saw everything that {is} in my house. There was not a thing in my treasuries that I did not show them.” \*

And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of God.

‘Behold, days are coming when everything that {is} in your house and that your fathers have stored up to this day will be carried away to Babylon. A thing will not be left,’ says God.

‘And they will take some of your sons who will come forth from you, whom you will beget, and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’” \*

And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of God that you have spoken {is} good.” For he said, “Is it not, if peace and stability will be in my days?”

Now the rest of the matters of Hezekiah and all of his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Judah?

And Hezekiah lay down with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place. \*