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In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came
to him, and said to him, Thus says YHWH, Set your house in order: for you shall die,
and not live.
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Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to YHWH, saying,
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Remember now, O YHWH, I beseech you, how I have walked before you in truth and with
a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. And Hezekiah wept
sore.
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And it came to pass, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle part of the city,
that the word of YHWH came to him, saying,
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Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says YHWH, 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 YHWH.
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And I will add to your days fifteen years; and I will deliver you and this city out
of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake,
and for my servant David`s sake.
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And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he
recovered.
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And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that YHWH will heal me, and that
I shall go up to the house of YHWH the third day?
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And Isaiah said, This shall be the sign to you from YHWH, that YHWH will do the thing
that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?
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And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay,
but let the shadow return backward ten steps.
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And Isaiah the prophet cried to YHWH; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward,
by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.
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At that time Berodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and
a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
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And Hezekiah hearkened 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 showed them not.
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Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men?
and from whence came they to you? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country,
even from Babylon.
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And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is
in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed
them.
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And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of YHWH.
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Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers
have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left,
says YHWH.
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And of your sons that shall issue from you, whom you shall engender, shall they take
away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
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Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of YHWH which you have spoken. He said
moreover, Is it not so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?
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Now 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, are they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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And Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.