English Bible Presentation Sharing - 2-Kings Book, chapter 20, verse 8 in Hcsb Version

2 Kings 20 : 1 (HCSB)

In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Put your affairs in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.'"

2 Kings 20 : 2 (HCSB)

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

2 Kings 20 : 3 (HCSB)

"Please LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and wholeheartedly and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

2 Kings 20 : 4 (HCSB)

Isaiah had not yet gone out of the inner courtyard when the word of the LORD came to him:

2 Kings 20 : 5 (HCSB)

"Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of My people, 'This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. On the third day *from now you will go up to the LORD's temple.

2 Kings 20 : 6 (HCSB)

I will add 15 years to your life. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for My sake and for the sake of My servant David.'"

2 Kings 20 : 7 (HCSB)

Then Isaiah said, "Bring a lump of pressed figs." So they brought it and applied it to his infected skin, and he recovered.

2 Kings 20 : 8 (HCSB)

Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, "What is the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the LORD's temple on the third day?"

2 Kings 20 : 9 (HCSB)

Isaiah said, "This is the sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Should the shadow go ahead 10 steps or go back 10 steps?"

2 Kings 20 : 10 (HCSB)

Then Hezekiah answered, "It's easy for the shadow to lengthen 10 steps. No, let the shadow go back 10 steps."

2 Kings 20 : 11 (HCSB)

So Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow back the 10 steps it had descended on Ahaz's stairway.

2 Kings 20 : 12 (HCSB)

At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah since he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

2 Kings 20 : 13 (HCSB)

Hezekiah gave them a hearing and showed them his whole treasure house-- the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil-- and his armory, and everything that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his palace and in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.

2 Kings 20 : 14 (HCSB)

Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him, "What did these men say, and where did they come to you from?" Hezekiah replied, "They came from a distant country, from Babylon."

2 Kings 20 : 15 (HCSB)

Isaiah asked, "What have they seen in your palace?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen everything in my palace. There isn't anything in my treasuries that I didn't show them."

2 Kings 20 : 16 (HCSB)

Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD:

2 Kings 20 : 17 (HCSB)

'The time will certainly come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon; nothing will be left,' says the LORD.

2 Kings 20 : 18 (HCSB)

'Some of your descendants who come from you will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'"

2 Kings 20 : 19 (HCSB)

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good," for he thought: Why not, if there will be peace and security during my lifetime?

2 Kings 20 : 20 (HCSB)

The rest of the events of Hezekiah's *reign , along with all his might and how he made the pool and the tunnel and brought water into the city, are written about in the Historical Record of Judah's Kings.

2 Kings 20 : 21 (HCSB)

Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and his son Manasseh became king in his place.