The Bible

2 Kings Chapter 20

¹In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says ForeverOne, 'Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.'" ²Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to ForeverOne, saying, ³"Remember now, ForeverOne, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in your sight." Hezekiah wept bitterly.

⁴Before Isaiah had gone out into the middle part of the city, the word of ForeverOne came to him, saying, ⁵"Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, 'Thus says ForeverOne, the God of David your father, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you shall go up to the house of ForeverOne.

⁶I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake."'" ⁷Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

⁸Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What shall be the sign that ForeverOne will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of ForeverOne the third day?" ⁹Isaiah said, "This shall be the sign to you from ForeverOne, that ForeverOne will do the thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?" ¹⁰Hezekiah answered, "It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps." ¹¹Isaiah the prophet cried to ForeverOne; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.

¹²At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

¹³Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and 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 didn't show them.

¹⁴Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say? Where did they come to you from?" Hezekiah said, "They have come from a far country, even from Babylon." ¹⁵He said, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them." ¹⁶Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of ForeverOne.

¹⁷'Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and what your fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left,' says ForeverOne.

¹⁸'Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'" ¹⁹Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of ForeverOne which you have spoken is good." He said moreover, "Isn't it so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?" ²⁰Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

²¹Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.