2 Kings 20:19-20

19 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is ¹good." For he thought, "Is it not so, if there will be peace and truth in my days?"

20 ²Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and all his might, and how he ³made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles * of the Kings of Judah?

2 Kings 20:19-20 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.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Samuel 3:18
• 2. 2 Chronicles 32:32
• 3. Nehemiah 3:16

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "said"