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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Kings 20 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_kings/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > 2 Kings 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/19.htm" title="2 Kings 19">◄</a> 2 Kings 20 <a href="../2_kings/21.htm" title="2 Kings 21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/2_kings/20.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Hezekiah’s Illness</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“Remember, <span class="name">Lord</span>, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Before Isaiah had left the middle court, the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> came to him: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” They did so and applied it to the boil, and he recovered.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the <span class="name">Lord</span> will heal me and that I will go up to the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span> on the third day from now?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Isaiah answered, “This is the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s sign to you that the <span class="name">Lord</span> will do what he has promised: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back ten steps?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps,” said Hezekiah. “Rather, have it go back ten steps.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then the prophet Isaiah called on the <span class="name">Lord</span>, and the <span class="name">Lord</span> made the shadow go back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Envoys From Babylon</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of Hezekiah’s illness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices and the fine olive oil—his armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, “What did those men say, and where did they come from?”</p><p class="reg">“From a distant land,” Hezekiah replied. “They came from Babylon.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?”</p><p class="reg">“They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah said. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span>: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“The word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>As for the other events of Hezekiah’s reign, all his achievements and how he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Hezekiah rested with his ancestors. And Manasseh his son succeeded him as king.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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