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2 Kings 20:16-21

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16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD:
17 Behold, the days are coming, when 1all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD.
18 2And some of your own sons, who shall be born to you, shall be taken away, 3and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."
19 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, 4"The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good." For he thought, "Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?"
20 5The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made 6the pool and the conduit 7and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
21 8And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
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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

Cross References 8

  • 1. 2 Kings 24:13; Jeremiah 20:5; [2 Kings 25:13]; See Jeremiah 27:19-22
  • 2. 2 Kings 24:12; 2 Chronicles 33:11
  • 3. [Daniel 1:3]
  • 4. 1 Samuel 3:18; [2 Chronicles 32:25, 26]
  • 5. [2 Chronicles 32:32]
  • 6. 2 Kings 18:17; Nehemiah 2:14; Nehemiah 3:16
  • 7. 2 Chronicles 32:30; [Isaiah 22:9, 11]
  • 8. 2 Chronicles 32:33
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