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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</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/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="/bmc//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="/2_kings/">2 Kings</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 align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/2_kings/20.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/2_kings/20.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/2_kings/20.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/2_kings/20.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/2_kings/20.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/2_kings/20.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/2_kings/20.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_chronicles/32.htm#24">2 Chronicles 32:24–31</a>; <a href ="../isaiah/38.htm">Isaiah 38:1–8</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> the word of the LORD came to him, saying, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/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.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?” <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?” <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.” <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz. <A name="13"></a><p class="hdg">Hezekiah Shows His Treasures<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../isaiah/39.htm">Isaiah 39:1–8</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>At that time Merodach-baladan<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” <p class="reg">“They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.” <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. <p class="reg">“They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.” <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD: <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?” <A name="21"></a><p class="hdg">Manasseh Succeeds Hezekiah<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> to bring water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and his son Manasseh reigned in his place.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> LXX and an alternate MT reading; the other alternate reads <i>the middle of the city</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Some Hebrew manuscripts, LXX, and Syriac (see also <a href="../isaiah/39.htm">Isaiah 39:1</a>); MT <i>Berodach-baladan</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>watercourse</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>conduit</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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