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The prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came to him and said, "This is what the LORD says: Give final instructions to your household, because you're about to die. You won't get well." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Hezekiah turned to the wall and prayed to the LORD, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>"Please, LORD, remember how I've lived faithfully and sincerely in your presence. I've done what you consider right." And he cried bitterly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Isaiah hadn't gone as far as the middle courtyard when the LORD spoke his word to him: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>"Go back and say to Hezekiah, leader of my people, 'This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says: I've heard your prayer. I've seen your tears. Now I'm going to heal you. The day after tomorrow you will go to the LORD's temple. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I'll give you 15 more years to live. I'll rescue you and defend this city from the control of the king of Assyria for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.'" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then Isaiah said, "Get a fig cake, and put it on the boil so that the king will get well."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Hezekiah asked Isaiah, "What is the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I'll go to the LORD's temple the day after tomorrow?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Isaiah said, "This is your sign from the LORD that he will do what he promises. Do you want the shadow to go forward ten steps or come back ten steps?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Hezekiah replied, "It's easy for the shadow to extend ten [more] steps forward. No, let it come back ten steps." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then the prophet Isaiah called on the LORD, and the LORD made the shadow that had gone down on Ahaz's stairway go back up ten steps.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>At that time Baladan's son, King Merodach Baladan of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah because he heard that Hezekiah had been sick. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Hezekiah was so happy with them that he showed the messengers his warehouse: the silver, gold, balsam, fine olive oil, his entire armory, and everything in his treasury. Hezekiah showed them everything in his palace and every corner of his kingdom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked, "What did these men say? And where did they come from?" Hezekiah answered, "They came to me from the distant country of Babylon." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Isaiah asked, "What did they see in your palace?" Hezekiah answered, "They saw everything in my palace, and I showed them everything in my treasury."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD! <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The LORD says, 'The days are going to come when everything in your palace, everything your ancestors have stored up to this day, will be taken away to Babylon. Nothing will be left. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Some of your own descendants will be taken away. They will become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.'" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The LORD's word that you have spoken is good." He added, "Isn't it enough if there is peace and security as long as I live?"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Isn't everything else about Hezekiah, all his heroic acts and how he made the pool and tunnel to bring water into the city, written in the official records of the kings of Judah? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Hezekiah lay down in death with his ancestors. 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