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bbe @2Kings:20:1 @In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death . And Isaiah the prophet , the son of Amoz , came to him , and said to him , The Lord says , Put your house in order , for your death is near . bbe @2Kings:20:2 @Then , turning his face to the wall , he made his prayer to the Lord , saying , bbe @2Kings:20:3 @O Lord , keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart , and have done what is good in your eyes . And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping . bbe @2Kings:20:4 @Now before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the town , the word of the Lord came to him , saying , bbe @2Kings:20:5 @Go back and say to Hezekiah , the ruler of my people , The Lord , the God of David your father , says , Your prayer has come to my ears , and I have seen your weeping ; see , I will make you well : on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord . bbe @2Kings:20:6 @I will give you fifteen more years of life ; and I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria ; I will keep this town safe , for my honour , and for the honour of my servant David . bbe @2Kings:20:7 @Then Isaiah said , Take a cake of figs . So they took it and put it on his wound , and he got better . bbe @2Kings:20:8 @And Hezekiah said to Isaiah , What is to be the sign that the Lord will make me well , and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day ? bbe @2Kings:20:9 @And Isaiah said , This is the sign the Lord will give you , that he will do what he has said ; will the shade go forward ten degrees or back ? bbe @2Kings:20:10 @And Hezekiah said in answer , It is a simple thing for the shade to go forward ; but let it go back ten degrees . bbe @2Kings:20:11 @Then Isaiah the prophet made prayer to the Lord , and he made the shade go back ten degrees from its position on the steps of Ahaz . bbe @2Kings:20:12 @At that time , Merodach-baladan , the son of Baladan , king of Babylon , sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah , because he had news that Hezekiah had been ill bbe @2Kings:20:13 @And Hezekiah was glad at their coming and let them see all his store of wealth , the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil of great price , and the house of his arms , and everything there was in his stores ; there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which Hezekiah did not let them see . bbe @2Kings:20:14 @Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him , What did these men say and where did they come from ? And Hezekiah said , They came from a far country , even from Babylon . bbe @2Kings:20:15 @And he said , What have they seen in your house ? And Hezekiah said in answer , They saw everything in my house : there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see . bbe @2Kings:20:16 @And Isaiah said to Hezekiah , Give ear to the word of the Lord . bbe @2Kings:20:17 @Truly , days are coming when everything in your house , and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day , will be taken away to Babylon : all will be gone , says the Lord . bbe @2Kings:20:18 @And your sons , the offspring of your body , they will take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon . bbe @2Kings:20:19 @Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah , Good is the word of the Lord which you have said . Then he said ,... if in my time there is peace and righteousness ? bbe @2Kings:20:20 @Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah , and his power , and how he made the pool and the stream , to take water into the town , are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah ? bbe @2Kings:20:21 @And Hezekiah went to rest with his fathers ; and Manasseh his son became king in his place .

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