Hezekiah's Illness and Recovery
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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.' "
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Then he turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying,
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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.
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And it happened, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
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"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.
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"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." ' "
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Then g Isaiah said, "Take a lump of figs." So they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
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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?"
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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?"
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And Hezekiah answered, "It is an easy thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees; no, but let the shadow go backward ten degrees."
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So Isaiah the prophet cried out to the LORD, and j He brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.
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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.'
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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!
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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