1In those days Is 38:1-8 Hezekiah became terminally ill. 2Ch 32:24 The prophet Isaiah Is 1:1; 2:1 son of Amoz came and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Put your affairs in order, Lit Command your house for you are about to die; you will not recover.’ ” 2Sm 17:23

2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall 1Kg 21:4 and prayed to the Lord,

3“Please Lord, remember Neh 5:19; 13:14,22,31 how I have walked before You faithfully and wholeheartedly and have done what pleases You.” Lit what is good in Your eyes 2Kg 18:3-6 And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 2Sm 12:21-22

4Isaiah had not yet gone out of the inner courtyard when the word of the Lord came to him:

5“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader 1Sm 9:16; 10:1 of My people, ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; Ps 39:12 I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the Lord’s temple.

6I will add 15 years to your life. 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.’ ” 2Kg 19:34

7Then Isaiah said, “Bring a lump of pressed figs.” So they brought it and applied it to his infected skin, and he recovered. Is 38:21

8Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What is the sign Jdg 6:17,37,39 that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the Lord’s temple on the third day? ”

9Isaiah said, “This is the sign Is 38:7 to you from the Lord that He will do what He has promised: Should the shadow go ahead 10 steps or go back 10 steps? ”

10Then Hezekiah answered, “It’s easy for the shadow to lengthen 10 steps. No, let the shadow go back 10 steps.”

11So Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and He brought the shadow Lit shadow on the steps back the 10 steps it had descended on Ahaz’s stairway. Tg, Vg; DSS read on the steps of Ahaz’s roof chamber ; Is 38:8 Jos 10:12-14; Is 38:8

12At that time Is 39:1-8 Merodach-baladan Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr, Tg, some Vg mss, Is 39:1; other Hb mss read Berodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah since he heard that he had been sick.

13Hezekiah gave them a hearing and showed them his whole treasure house — the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil — and his armory, and everything that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his palace and in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them. 2Ch 32:27

14Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him, “Where did these men come from and what did they say to you? ”

15Isaiah asked, “What have they seen in your palace? ”

16Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord:

17‘The time will certainly 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,’ 2Kg 24:13; 2Ch 36:10 says the Lord.

18‘Some of your descendants who come from you will be taken away, 2Kg 24:12; 2Ch 33:11 and they will become eunuchs Or court officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ” Dn 1:3-7,11

19Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good,” 1Sm 3:18; 2Kg 22:20 for he thought: Why not, if there will be peace and security during my lifetime?

20The rest of the events of Hezekiah’s reign, along with all his might and how he made the pool Neh 3:16; Is 7:3 and the tunnel and brought water into the city, 2Ch 32:30 are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. 2Kg 16:19

21Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and his son Manasseh became king in his place. 2Ch 32:32-33