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Hezekiah Watches the Shadow Go Back on the Stairway
by emmanuel_higgins
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2 Kings 20:7
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In those days
was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the
L
ORD
, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
2
Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the
L
ORD
, saying,
3
I beseech thee, O
L
ORD
, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done
that which is
good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
4
And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the
L
ORD
came to him, saying,
5
Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the
L
ORD
, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the
L
ORD
.
6
And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid
it
on the boil, and he recovered.
8
And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What
shall be
the sign that the
L
ORD
will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the
L
ORD
the third day?
9
And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the
L
ORD
, that the
L
ORD
will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
10
And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
11
And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the
L
ORD
: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
12
At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
13
And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and
all
the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
14
Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country,
even
from Babylon.
15
And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All
the things
that
are
in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
16
And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the
L
ORD
.
17
Behold, the days come, that all that
is
in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the
L
ORD
.
18
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
19
Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good
is
the word of the
L
ORD
which thou hast spoken. And he said,
Is it
not
good
, if peace and truth be in my days?
20
And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city,
are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
21
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
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