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In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death .
And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him ,
and said unto him ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
Set thine house in order ;
for thou shalt die ,
and not live .
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Then he turned his face to the wall ,
and prayed unto the LORD ,
saying ,
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I beseech thee ,
O LORD ,
remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart ,
and have done that which is good in thy sight .
And Hezekiah wept sore .
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And it came to pass ,
afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court ,
that the word of the LORD came to him ,
saying ,
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Turn again ,
and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
the God of David thy father ,
I have heard thy prayer ,
I have seen thy tears :
behold ,
I will heal thee :
on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD .
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And I will add unto thy days fifteen years ;
and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria ;
and I will defend this city for mine own sake ,
and for my servant David '
s sake .
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And Isaiah said ,
Take a lump of figs .
And they took and laid it on the boil ,
and he recovered .
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And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah ,
What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me ,
and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day ?
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And Isaiah said ,
This sign shalt thou have of the LORD ,
that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken :
shall the shadow go forward ten degrees ,
or go back ten degrees ?
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And Hezekiah answered ,
It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees :
nay ,
but let the shadow return backward ten degrees .
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And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD :
and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward ,
by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz .
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At that time Berodachbaladan ,
the son of Baladan ,
king of Babylon ,
sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah :
for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick .
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And Hezekiah hearkened unto them ,
and shewed them all the house of his precious things ,
the silver ,
and the gold ,
and the spices ,
and the precious ointment ,
and all the house of his armour ,
and all that was found in his treasures :
there was nothing in his house ,
nor in all his dominion ,
that Hezekiah shewed them not .
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Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah ,
and said unto him ,
What said these men ?
and from whence came they unto thee ?
And Hezekiah said ,
They are come from a far country ,
even from Babylon .
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And he said ,
What have they seen in thine house ?
And Hezekiah answered ,
All the things that are in mine house have they seen :
there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them .
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And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah ,
Hear the word of the LORD .
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Behold ,
the days come ,
that all that is in thine house ,
and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day ,
shall be carried into Babylon :
nothing shall be left ,
saith the LORD .
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And of thy sons that shall issue from thee ,
which thou shalt beget ,
shall they take away ;
and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon .
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Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah ,
Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken .
And he said ,
Is it not good ,
if peace and truth be in my days ?
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And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah ,
and all his might ,
and how he made a pool ,
and a 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 stead .
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Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign ,
and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem .
And his mother '
s name was Hephzibah .
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD ,
after the abominations of the heathen ,
whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel .
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For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed ;
and he reared up altars for Baal ,
and made a grove ,
as did Ahab king of Israel ;
and worshipped all the host of heaven ,
and served them .
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And he built altars in the house of the LORD ,
of which the LORD said ,
In Jerusalem will I put my name .
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And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD .
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And he made his son pass through the fire ,
and observed times ,
and used enchantments ,
and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards :
he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD ,
to provoke him to anger .
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And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house ,
of which the LORD said to David ,
and to Solomon his son ,
In this house ,
and in Jerusalem ,
which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel ,
will I put my name for ever :
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Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers ;
only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them ,
and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them .
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But they hearkened not :
and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel .
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And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets ,
saying ,
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Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations ,
and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did ,
which were before him ,
and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols :
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Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel ,
Behold ,
I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah ,
that whosoever heareth of it ,
both his ears shall tingle .
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And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria ,
and the plummet of the house of Ahab :
and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish ,
wiping it ,
and turning it upside down .
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And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance ,
and deliver them into the hand of their enemies ;
and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies ;
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Because they have done that which was evil in my sight ,
and have provoked me to anger ,
since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt ,
even unto this day .
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Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much ,
till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another ;
beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin ,
in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD .
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Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh ,
and all that he did ,
and his sin that he sinned ,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ?
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And Manasseh slept with his fathers ,
and was buried in the garden of his own house ,
in the garden of Uzza :
and Amon his son reigned in his stead .
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Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned two years in Jerusalem .
And his mother '
s name was Meshullemeth ,
the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah .
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD ,
as his father Manasseh did .
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And he walked in all the way that his father walked in ,
and served the idols that his father served ,
and worshipped them :
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And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers ,
and walked not in the way of the LORD .
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And the servants of Amon conspired against him ,
and slew the king in his own house .
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And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon ;
and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead .
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Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did ,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ?
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And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza :
and Josiah his son reigned in his stead .
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Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem .
And his mother '
s name was Jedidah ,
the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath .