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* In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death . And Isaiah the prophet , the son of Amoz , went to him and said to him , "Thus says the LORD : "Set your house in order , for you shall die , and not live ."' * Then he turned his face toward the wall , and prayed to the LORD , saying , * "Remember now , O LORD , I pray , how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart , and have done what was good in Your sight ." And Hezekiah wept bitterly . * And it happened , before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court , that the word of the LORD came to him , saying , * "Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people , "Thus says the LORD , the God of David your father : "I have heard your prayer , I have seen your tears ; surely I will heal you . On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD . * And I will add to your days fifteen years . I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria ; and I will defend this city for My own sake , and for the sake of My servant David .""' * Then Isaiah said , "Take a lump of figs ." So they took and laid it on the boil , and he recovered . * And Hezekiah said to Isaiah , "What is the sign that the LORD will heal me , and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD the third day ?" * Then Isaiah said , "This is the sign to you from the LORD , that the LORD will do the thing which He has spoken : shall the shadow go forward ten degrees or go backward ten degrees ?" * And Hezekiah answered , "It is an easy thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees ; no , but let the shadow go backward ten degrees ." * So Isaiah the prophet cried out to the LORD , and He brought the shadow ten degrees backward , by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz . * At that time Berodach-Baladan the son of Baladan , king of Babylon , sent letters and a present to Hezekiah , for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick . * And Hezekiah was attentive to them , and showed them all the house of his treasures--the silver and gold , the spices and precious ointment , and all his armory--all that was found among his treasures . There was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them . * Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah , and said to him , "What did these men say , and from where did they come to you ?" So Hezekiah said , "They came from a far country , from Babylon ." * And he said , "What have they seen in your house ?" So Hezekiah answered , "They have seen all that is in my house ; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them ." * Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah , "Hear the word of the LORD : * "Behold , the days are coming when all that is in your house , and what your fathers have accumulated until this day , shall be carried to Babylon ; nothing shall be left ,' says the LORD . * "And they shall take away some of your sons who will descend from you , whom you will beget ; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon ."' * So Hezekiah said to Isaiah , "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good !" For he said , "Will there not be peace and truth at least in my days ?" * Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah--all his might , and how he made a pool and a tunnel and brought water into the city--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ? * So Hezekiah rested with his fathers . Then Manasseh his son reigned in his place .

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