2 Kings 20:2-5

2 Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

3 “Remember, LORD, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

4 Before Isaiah had left the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him:

5 “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the LORD.

2 Kings 20:2-5 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. S Genesis 8:1; Nehemiah 1:8; Nehemiah 5:19; Nehemiah 13:14; Nehemiah 13:22
• 2. S Genesis 5:22
• 3. S 1 Kings 2:4; 2 Chronicles 31:20; 2 Kings 18:3-6
• 4. 1 Samuel 9:16; S 1 Kings 9:3; 2 Kings 19:20
• 5. Psalms 6:6,8; Psalms 39:12; Psalms 56:8