2 Kings 20

¹ In those days has Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come unto him does Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, and said unto him, "Thus said Yahweh: Give a charge to your house, for you are dying, and do not live." ² And he turns round his face unto the wall, and prays unto Yahweh, saying, ³ "I pray You, O Yahweh, remember, I pray You, how I have walked habitually before You in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which [is] good in Your eyes I have done"; and Hezekiah weeps - a great weeping. ⁴ And it comes to pass - Isaiah has not gone out to the middle court - that the word of Yahweh has been unto him, saying, ⁵ "Turn back, and you have said unto Hezekiah, leader of My people: Thus said Yahweh, Elohim of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tear, lo, I give healing to you, on the third day you do go up to the house of Yahweh; ⁶ and I have added to your days fifteen years, and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver you and this city, and have covered over this city for Mine own sake, and for the sake of David My servant." ⁷ And Isaiah said, "Take you a cake of figs"; and they take and lay [it] on the boil, and he revives. ⁸ And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, "What [is] the sign that Yahweh does give healing to me, that I have gone up on the third day to the house of Yahweh?" ⁹ And Isaiah said, "This [is] to you the sign from Yahweh, that Yahweh does the thing that He has spoken - The shadow has gone on ten degrees, or it does turn back ten degrees?" ¹⁰ And Hezekiah said, "It has been light for the shadow to incline ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow turn backward ten degrees." ¹¹ And Isaiah the prophet calls unto Yahweh, and He brings back the shadow by the degrees that it had gone down in the degrees of Ahaz - backward ten degrees. ¹² At that time has Berodach-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick; ¹³ and Hezekiah hearkens unto them, and shows them all the house of his treasury, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the good ointment, and all the house of his vessels, and all that has been found in his treasuries; there has not been a thing that Hezekiah has not showed them, in his house, and in all his dominion. ¹⁴ And Isaiah the prophet comes in unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, "What said these men? and whence come they unto you?" And Hezekiah said, "From a land afar off they have come - from Babylon." ¹⁵ And he said, "What saw they in your house?" and Hezekiah said, "All that [is] in my house they saw; there has not been a thing that I have not showed them among my treasures." ¹⁶ And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, "Hear a word of Yahweh. ¹⁷ Lo, days are coming, and borne has been all that [is] in your house, and that your father have treasured up till this day, to Babylon; there is not left a thing, said Yahweh; ¹⁸ and of your sons who go out from you, whom you beget, they take away, and they have been eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon." ¹⁹ And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, "Good [is] the word of Yahweh that you have spoken"; and he said, "Is it not - if peace and truth are in my days?" ²⁰ And the rest of the matters of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brings in the waters to the city, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? ²¹ And Hezekiah lies with his fathers, and reign does Manasseh his son in his stead.