2 Kings 20 (NET)

2 Kings 20:1¹In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord has said, ‘Give your household instructions, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 38:1-222 Chr 32:24-26Phil 2:27Jonah 3:4-102 Kgs 19:202 Sam 17:23Jer 18:7-10Phil 2:30John 11:1-52 Kgs 19:2

2 Kings 20:2²He turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 50:151 Kgs 8:30Isa 38:2-3Matt 6:6

2 Kings 20:3³“Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 13:14Neh 13:222 Kgs 18:3-6Neh 5:191 John 3:21-22Neh 13:31Luke 1:61 Kgs 8:612 Sam 12:21-22Isa 38:14

2 Kings 20:4⁴Isaiah had not yet left the middle courtyard when the Lord’ s message came to him,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:82 Kgs 22:14

2 Kings 20:5⁵“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David has said: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. The day after tomorrow you will go up to the Lord ’s temple.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 66:19-20Isa 38:51 Sam 9:162 Kgs 19:20Ps 39:12Ps 126:5Ps 147:3Jas 5:14-15Ps 56:8Rev 7:17

2 Kings 20:6⁶I will add fifteen years to your life and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.”’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:34Acts 27:24Isa 10:242 Chr 32:22Ps 116:15

2 Kings 20:7⁷Isaiah ordered, “Get a fig cake.” So they did as he ordered and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 38:212 Kgs 2:20-222 Kgs 4:41

2 Kings 20:8⁸Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What is the confirming sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the Lord ’s temple the day after tomorrow?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 7:11Judg 6:172 Kgs 19:292 Kgs 20:5Hos 6:2Isa 38:22Isa 7:14Judg 6:37-40

2 Kings 20:9⁹Isaiah replied, “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said. Do you want the shadow to move ahead ten steps or to go back ten steps?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 38:7-8Luke 11:29-30Mark 8:11-12Matt 16:1-4

2 Kings 20:10¹⁰Hezekiah answered, “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps, but not for it to go back ten steps.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 2:102 Kgs 3:18Isa 49:6John 14:12Mark 9:28-29

2 Kings 20:11¹¹Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 38:82 Chr 32:24Josh 10:12-141 Kgs 17:20-211 Kgs 18:36-382 Chr 32:31Acts 9:40Exod 14:15

2 Kings 20:12¹²At that time Merodach Baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent messengers with letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah was ill.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:31Isa 39:1-82 Sam 10:22 Sam 8:10Gen 10:10Gen 11:9Isa 13:1Isa 13:19Isa 14:4

2 Kings 20:13¹³Hezekiah welcomed them and showed them his whole storehouse, with its silver, gold, spices, and high quality olive oil, as well as his armory and everything in his treasuries. Hezekiah showed them everything in his palace and in his whole kingdom.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 10:101 Kgs 10:151 Kgs 10:21 Kgs 10:252 Chr 32:25-27Eccl 7:20Isa 39:2Prov 23:5

2 Kings 20:14¹⁴Isaiah the prophet visited King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say? Where do they come from?” Hezekiah replied, “They come from the distant land of Babylon.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 16:7-102 Chr 25:15-162 Chr 25:7-92 Kgs 5:25-262 Sam 12:7-15Amos 7:12-13Deut 28:49Isa 13:5Isa 39:3-8Jer 26:18-19

2 Kings 20:15¹⁵Isaiah asked, “What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah replied, “They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything in my treasuries.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 20:131 John 1:8-10Job 31:33Prov 28:13Josh 7:19

2 Kings 20:16¹⁶Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Listen to the Lord ’s message,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 22:192 Kgs 7:1Amos 7:16Isa 1:10

2 Kings 20:17¹⁷‘Look, a time is coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 24:132 Chr 36:10Jer 27:21-22Jer 52:17-192 Kgs 25:13-152 Chr 36:18Lev 26:19

2 Kings 20:18¹⁸‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:112 Kgs 24:12Dan 1:32 Kgs 25:6

2 Kings 20:19¹⁹Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The Lord ’s message which you have announced is appropriate.” Then he added, “At least there will be peace and stability during my lifetime.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 3:18Esth 9:30Jer 33:6Job 1:21Lam 3:22Lam 3:39Lev 10:3Luke 2:10Luke 2:14Ps 39:9

2 Kings 20:20²⁰The rest of the events of Hezekiah’s reign and all his accomplishments, including how he built a pool and conduit to bring water into the city, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 3:162 Chr 32:322 Chr 32:42 Chr 32:30Isa 22:9-111 Kgs 14:191 Kgs 15:231 Kgs 15:72 Kgs 15:262 Kgs 15:6

2 Kings 20:21²¹Hezekiah passed away and his son Manasseh replaced him as king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:331 Kgs 11:431 Kgs 14:311 Kgs 2:102 Chr 26:232 Kgs 21:12 Kgs 21:18