2Kings:20

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drb @2Kings:20:1 @In those days Ezechias was sick unto death : and Isaias the son of Amos the prophet came and said to him : Thus saith the Lord God : Give charge concerning thy house , for thou shalt die , and not live . drb @2Kings:20:2 @And he turned his face to the wall , and prayed to the Lord , saying : drb @2Kings:20:3 @I beseech thee , O Lord , remember how I have walked before thee in truth , and with a perfect heart , and have done that which is pleasing before thee . And Ezechias wept with much weeping . drb @2Kings:20:4 @And before Isaias was gone out of the middle of the court , the word of the Lord came to him , saying : drb @2Kings:20:5 @Go back , and tell Ezechias the captain of my people : Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father : I have heard thy prayer , and I have seen thy tears : and behold I have healed thee ; on the third day thou shalt go up to the temple of the Lord . drb @2Kings:20:6 @And I will add to thy days fifteen years : and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians , and I will protect this city for my own sake , and for David my servant 's sake . drb @2Kings:20:7 @And Isaias said : Bring me a lump of figs . And when they had brought it , and laid it upon his boil . he was healed . drb @2Kings:20:8 @And Ezechias had said to Isaias : What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me , and that I shall go up to the temple of the Lord the third day ? drb @2Kings:20:9 @And Isaias said to him : This shall be the sign from the Lord , that the Lord will do the word which he hath spoken : Wilt thou that the shadow go forward ten lines , or that it go back so many degrees ? drb @2Kings:20:10 @And Ezechias said : It is an easy matter for the shadow to go forward ten lines : and I do not desire that this be done , but let it return back ten degrees . drb @2Kings:20:11 @And Isaias the prophet called upon the Lord , and he brought the shadow ten degrees backwards by the lines , by which it had already gone down in the dial of Achaz . drb @2Kings:20:12 @At that time Berodach Baladan , the son of Baladan , king of the Babylonians , sent letters and presents to Ezechias : for he had heard that Ezechias had been sick drb @2Kings:20:13 @And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming , and he showed them the house of his aromatical spices , and the gold and the silver , and divers precious odours , and ointments , and the house of his vessels , and all that he had in his treasures . There was nothing in his house , nor in all his dominions that Ezechias shewed them not . drb @2Kings:20:14 @And Isaias the prophet came to king Ezechias , and said to him : What said these men ? or from whence came they to thee ? And Ezechias said to him : From a far country they came to me out of Babylon . drb @2Kings:20:15 @And he said : What did they see in thy house ? Ezechias said : They saw all the things that are in my house : there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewn them . drb @2Kings:20:16 @And Isaias said to Ezechias : Hear the word of the Lord . drb @2Kings:20:17 @Behold the days shall come , that all that is in thy house , and that thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day , shall be carried into Babylon : nothing shall be left , saith the Lord . drb @2Kings:20:18 @And of thy sons also that shall issue from thee , whom thou shalt beget , they shall take away , and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon . drb @2Kings:20:19 @Ezechias said to Isaias : The word of the Lord , which thou hast spoken , is good : let peace and truth be in my days . drb @2Kings:20:20 @And the rest of the acts of Ezechias and all his might , and how he made a pool , and a conduit , and brought waters into the city , are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda ? drb @2Kings:20:21 @And Ezechias slept with his fathers , and Manasses his son reigned in his stead .

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