2 Kings 20:16-21

16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Listen to the LORD's word:

17 The days are nearly here when everything in your palace and all that your ancestors collected up to now will be carried off to Babylon. Not a single thing will be left, says the LORD.

18 Some of your children, your very own offspring, will be taken away. They will become eunuchs in the palace of Babylon's king."

19 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The LORD's word that you've spoken is good," because he thought: There will be peace and security in my lifetime.

20 The rest of Hezekiah's deeds and all his powerful acts—how he made the pool and the channel and brought water inside the city—aren't they written in the official records of Judah's kings?

21 Hezekiah lay down with his ancestors. His son Manasseh succeeded him as king.

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2 Kings 20:16-21 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

2 Kings 20:16-21

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2 Kings 20:16-21 Meaning and Commentary