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2 Kings 20:1-11

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Hezekiah's Illness and Recovery

1 1In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, '2Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.' "
2 Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,
3 "3Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, 4how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart and have done what is good in Your sight." And 5Hezekiah wept bitterly *.
4 Before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
5 "Return and say to 6Hezekiah the leader of My people, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David, "7I have heard your prayer, 8I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD.
6 "I will add fifteen * years to your life, and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and 9I will defend this city for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.""'
7 Then Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
8 Now Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD the third day?"
9 Isaiah said, "10This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?"
10 So Hezekiah answered, "It is easy for the shadow to decline ten steps; no, but let the shadow turn backward ten steps."
11 Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD, and 11He brought the shadow on the stairway back ten steps by which it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.
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2 Kings 20:1-11 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 11

  • 1. 2 Chronicles 32:24; Isaiah 38:1-22
  • 2. 2 Samuel 17:23
  • 3. Nehemiah 5:19; Nehemiah 13:14, 22, 31
  • 4. 2 Kings 18:3-6
  • 5. 2 Samuel 12:21, 22
  • 6. 1 Samuel 9:16; 1 Samuel 10:1
  • 7. 2 Kings 19:20
  • 8. Psalms 39:12
  • 9. 2 Kings 19:34
  • 10. Isaiah 38:7
  • 11. Joshua 10:12-14; Isaiah 38:8

Footnotes 6

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