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2 Kings 20:16-19

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16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD:
17 The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
18 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
19 “The word of the LORD you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?”
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2 Kings 20:16-19 Meaning and Commentary

In this chapter is an account of Hezekiah's sickness, and of the means of his recovery, and of the sign given of it, 2 Kings 20:1 of the king of Babylon's congratulatory letter to him upon it, when he showed to the messengers that brought it his treasures, in the pride and vanity of his heart, 2 Kings 20:12 for which he was reproved by the prophet Isaiah, and was humbled, and submitted to the sentence pronounced on his house, 2 Kings 20:14, and the chapter is concluded with his reign and death, 2 Kings 20:20.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 3

  • 1. 2 Kings 24:13; 2 Kings 25:13; 2 Chronicles 36:10; Jeremiah 20:5; Jeremiah 27:22; Jeremiah 52:17-23
  • 2. 2 Kings 24:15; 2 Chronicles 33:11; Daniel 1:3
  • 3. Micah 4:10
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