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you shall not recover.” <span id="v12020002" class="ver">2</span>He turned his face to the wall and prayed to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>: <span id="v12020003" class="ver">3</span>“Ah, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, remember how faithfully and wholeheartedly I conducted myself in your presence, doing what was good in your sight!” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. <span id="v12020004" class="ver">4</span>Before Isaiah had left the central courtyard, the word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> came to him: <span id="v12020005" class="ver">5</span>Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: “Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the God of David your father:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">I have heard your prayer;</p> <p class="sl1">I have seen your tears.</p> <p class="sl1">Now I am healing you.</p> <p class="sl">On the third day you shall go up</p> <p class="sl1">to the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v12020006" class="ver">6</span>I will add to your life fifteen years.</p> <p class="sl1">I will rescue you and this city</p> <p class="sl1">from the hand of the king of Assyria;</p> <p class="sl">I will be a shield to this city</p> <p class="sl1l">for my own sake and the sake of David my servant.”</p> </div> <p class="pcon"><span id="v12020007" class="ver">7</span>Then Isaiah said, “Bring a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil for his recovery.” <span id="v12020008" class="ver">8</span>Hezekiah asked Isaiah, “What is the sign that the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will heal me and that I shall go up to the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> on the third day?” <span id="v12020009" class="ver">9</span>Isaiah replied, “This will be the sign for you from the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> that he will carry out the word he has spoken: Shall the shadow go forward or back ten steps?” <span id="v12020010" class="ver">10</span>“It is easy for the shadow to advance ten steps,” Hezekiah answered. “Rather, let it go back ten steps.” <span id="v12020011" class="ver">11</span>So Isaiah the prophet invoked the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. He made the shadow go back the ten steps it had descended on the staircase to the terrace of Ahaz.</p> <p><span id="v12020012" class="ver">12</span>At that time, Berodach-baladan,<a id="rfn12020012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn12020012-1">*</a> son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and gifts to Hezekiah when he heard that he had been ill. <span id="v12020013" class="ver">13</span>Hezekiah listened to the envoys and then showed off his whole treasury: his silver, gold, spices and perfumed oil, his armory, and everything in his storerooms; there was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them. <span id="v12020014" class="ver">14</span>Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and asked him: “What did these men say to you? Where did they come from?” Hezekiah replied, “They came from a distant land, from Babylon.” <span id="v12020015" class="ver">15</span>He asked, “What did they see in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They saw everything in my house. There is nothing in my storerooms that I did not show them.” <span id="v12020016" class="ver">16</span>Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah: “Hear the word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>: <span id="v12020017" class="ver">17</span>The time is coming when all that is in your house, everything that your ancestors have stored up until this day, shall be carried off to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. <span id="v12020018" class="ver">18</span>Some of your own descendants, your offspring, your progeny, shall be taken and made attendants in the palace of the king of Babylon.” <span id="v12020019" class="ver">19</span>Hezekiah replied to Isaiah, “The word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> which you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “There will be peace and stability in my lifetime.”</p> <p><span id="v12020020" class="ver">20</span>The rest of the acts of Hezekiah, with all his valor, and how he constructed the pool and conduit<a id="rfn12020020-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn12020020-1">*</a> and brought water into the city, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.<a id="ren12020020-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12020020-b">b</a> <span id="v12020021" class="ver">21</span>Hezekiah rested with his ancestors, and his son Manasseh succeeded him as king.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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