2 Kings 20

Hezekiah's Illness and Recovery

1 In a those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.' " 2 Then he turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying, 3 b "Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4 And it happened, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 5 "Return and tell Hezekiah c the leader of My people, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: d "I have heard your prayer, I have seen e your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD. 6 "And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and f I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David." ' " 7 Then g Isaiah said, "Take a lump of figs." So they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, h "What is the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD the third day?" 9 Then Isaiah said, i "This is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing which He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees or go backward ten degrees?" 10 And Hezekiah answered, "It is an easy thing for the shadow to go down ten 1 degrees; no, but let the shadow go backward ten degrees." 11 So Isaiah the prophet cried out to the LORD, and j He brought the shadow ten 2 degrees backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.

Hezekiah and the Babylonian Envoys

12 k At that time 3 BerodachBal'a-dan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick. 13 And l Hezekiah was attentive to them, and showed them all the house of his treasures - the silver and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and 4 all 5 his armory - all that was found among his treasures. There was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them. 14 Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?" So Hezekiah said, "They came from a far country, from Babylon." 15 And he said, "What have they seen in your house?" So Hezekiah answered, m "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."

16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD: 17 'Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this day, n shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,' says the LORD. 18 'And o they shall take away some of your sons who will 6 descend from you, whom you will beget; p and they shall be q eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.' " 19 So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, r "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good!" For he said, "Will there not be peace and truth at least in my days?"

20 s Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah - all his might, and how he t made a u pool and a 7 tunnel and v brought water into the city - are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 21 So w Hezekiah 8 rested with his fathers. Then Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

  1. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:13
    And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
    2 Chronicles 32:24
    In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death, and he prayed to the LORD; and He spoke to him and gave him a sign.
    Isaiah 38:1 - 22
    In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'
  2. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:3 - 6
    And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father David had done.
    Nehemiah 13:22
    And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should go and guard the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of Your mercy!
  3. Cross References
    1 Samuel 9:16
    "Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him commander over My people Israel, that he may save My people from the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me."
    1 Samuel 10:1
    Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head, and kissed him and said: " Is it not because the LORD has anointed you commander over His inheritance?
  4. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:20
    Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard.
    Psalms 65:2
    O You who hear prayer, To You all flesh will come.
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 39:12
    Hear my prayer, O LORD, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
    Psalms 56:8
    You number my wanderings; Put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book?
  6. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:34
    'For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David's sake.'"
    2 Chronicles 32:21
    Then the LORD sent an angel who cut down every mighty man of valor, leader, and captain in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned shamefaced to his own land. And when he had gone into the temple of his god, some of his own offspring struck him down with the sword there.
  7. Cross References
    Isaiah 38:21
    Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it as a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.
  8. Cross References
    Judges 6:17
    Then he said to Him, "If now I have found favor...
    Judges 6:37
    "look, I shall put a fleece of wool on the thre...
    Judges 6:39
    Then Gideon said to God, "Do not be angry with ...
    Isaiah 7:11
    "Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God...
    Isaiah 7:14
    Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign...
    Isaiah 38:22
    And Hezekiah had said, "What is the sign that I...
  9. Cross References
    Numbers 23:19
    God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
    Isaiah 38:7
    And this is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing which He has spoken:
    Isaiah 38:8
    Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward." So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down.
  10. Cross References
    Joshua 10:12 - 14
    Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel: "Sun, stand still over Gibeon; And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.
    Isaiah 38:8
    Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward." So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down.
  11. Cross References
    2 Kings 8:8
    And the king said to Hazael, "Take a present in your hand, and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, 'Shall I recover from this disease?'
    2 Kings 8:9
    So Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, of every good thing of Damascus, forty camel-loads; and he came and stood before him, and said, "Your son BenHadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, 'Shall I recover from this disease?'
    2 Chronicles 32:31
    However, regarding the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, whom they sent to him to inquire about the wonder that was done in the land, God withdrew from him, in order to test him, that He might know all that was in his heart.
    Isaiah 39:1 - 8
    At that time MerodachBal'a-dan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
  12. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:9
    So the king of Assyria heeded him; for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it, carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
    2 Chronicles 32:27
    Hezekiah had very great riches and honor. And he made himself treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of desirable items.
    2 Chronicles 32:31
    However, regarding the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, whom they sent to him to inquire about the wonder that was done in the land, God withdrew from him, in order to test him, that He might know all that was in his heart.
  13. Cross References
    2 Kings 20:13
    And Hezekiah was attentive to them, and showed them all the house of his treasures - the silver and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and all his armory - all that was found among his treasures. There was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
  14. Cross References
    2 Kings 24:13
    And he carried out from there all the treasures...
    2 Kings 25:13 - 15
    The bronze pillars that were in the house of th...
    2 Chronicles 36:10
    At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sum...
    Jeremiah 27:21
    Yes, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Is...
    Jeremiah 27:22
    'They shall be carried to Babylon, and there th...
    Jeremiah 52:17
    The bronze pillars that were in the house of th...
  15. Cross References
    2 Kings 24:12
    Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers went out to the king of Babylon; and the king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, took him prisoner.
    2 Chronicles 33:11
    Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon.
  16. Cross References
    Daniel 1:3 - 7
    Then the king instructed Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of Israel and some of the king's descendants and some of the nobles.
  17. Cross References
    Daniel 1:11
    So Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
    Daniel 1:18
    Now at the end of the days, when the king had said that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
  18. Cross References
    1 Samuel 3:18
    Then Samuel told him everything, and hid nothing from him. And he said, "It is the LORD. Let Him do what seems good to Him.
  19. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:32
    Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, indeed they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
  20. Cross References
    Nehemiah 3:16
    After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, leader of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs as far as the place in front of the tombs of David, to the man-made pool, and as far as the House of the Mighty.
  21. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:17
    Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish, with a great army against Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they went and stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool, which was on the highway to the Fuller's Field.
    Isaiah 7:3
    Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and ShearJa'shub your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller's Field.
  22. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:3
    He consulted with his leaders and commanders to stop the water from the springs which were outside the city; and they helped him.
    2 Chronicles 32:30
    This same Hezekiah also stopped the water outlet of Upper Gihon, and brought the water by tunnel to the west side of the City of David. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
  23. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:20
    So Ahaz rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. Then Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
    2 Chronicles 32:33
    So Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper tombs of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Then Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
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