[1] In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of
Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in
order: for you shall die, and not live. [2] Then he turned his face to the
wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying, [3] Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you,
how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have
done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore. [4] It happened,
before Isaiah was gone out into the middle part of the city, that the word
of Yahweh came to him, saying, [5] Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince
of my people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard
your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you; on the third
day you shall go up to the house of Yahweh. [6] I will add to your days
fifteen years; and I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the
king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my
servant David`s sake. [7] Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. They took and
laid it on the boil, and he recovered. [8] Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What
shall be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I shall go up to the
house of Yahweh the third day? [9] Isaiah said, This shall be the sign to
you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: shall
the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps? [10] Hezekiah
answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but
let the shadow return backward ten steps. [11] Isaiah the prophet cried to
Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone
down on the dial of Ahaz. [12] At that time Berodach-baladan the son of
Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he
had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. [13] Hezekiah listened to them, and
showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold,
and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all
that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all
his dominion, that Hezekiah didn`t show them. [14] Then came Isaiah the
prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from
whence came they to you? Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country,
even from Babylon. [15] He said, What have they seen in your house?
Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing
among my treasures that I have not showed them. [16] Isaiah said to
Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh. [17] Behold, the days come, that all
that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to
this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Yahweh.
[18] Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, shall
they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of
Babylon. [19] Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh
which you have spoken. He said moreover, Isn`t it so, if peace and truth
shall be in my days? [20] Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his
might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into
the city, aren`t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? [21] Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned
in his place.
