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Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, 1“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? ”
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2 Kings 20:19 In-Context
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Behold, the days are coming, when all 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.
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And some of your own sons, who shall be born to you, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. ”
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Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “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? ”
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The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made 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?
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And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.