2 Kings 20

20^*In ^athose 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. ²Then he turned his face ^bto the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, saying, ³I beseech thee, O Lord, ^cremember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with ^da perfect heart, and ^ehave done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah ^fwept ^†sore. ⁴And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle ^||court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ⁵Turn again, and tell Hezekiah ^gthe captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, ^hI have heard thy prayer, I have seen ⁱthy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord. ⁶And 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 ^kI will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake. ⁷And ^lIsaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on ^mthe boil, and he recovered. ⁸And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, ⁿWhat 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? ⁹And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken: ^oshall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? ¹⁰And Hezekiah answered, ^pIt is a light thing for ^qthe shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. ¹¹And 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*rAt that time ^||Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. ¹³And Hezekiah ^shearkened unto them, and shewed 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 ^||armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. ¹⁴Then 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. ¹⁵And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, ^tAll the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them. ¹⁶And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord. ¹⁷Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, ^ushall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. ¹⁸And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, ^xshall they take away; ^||and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. ¹⁹Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, ^yGood 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? ^20zAnd the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he ^amade a pool, and a conduit, and ^bbrought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? ²¹And ^c*Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.