Chapter 20
1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying . Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him , and said to him , " Yahweh says , ‘ Set your house in order ; for you will die , and not live .’"
2 Then he turned his face to the wall , and prayed to Yahweh , saying,
3 " Remember now , Yahweh , I beg you , how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart , and have done that which is good in your sight ." And Hezekiah wept bitterly .
4 Before Isaiah had gone out into the middle part of the city , Yahweh ’s word came to him , saying ,
5 " Turn back , and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people , ‘ Yahweh , the God of David your father, says , " I have heard your prayer . I have seen your tears . Behold , I will heal you . On the third day , you will go up to Yahweh ’s house .
6 I will add to your days fifteen years . I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake , and for my servant David ’s sake ."’"
7 Isaiah said, " Take a cake of figs ." They took and laid it on the boil , and he recovered .
8 Hezekiah said to Isaiah , " What will be the sign that Yahweh will heal me , and that I will go up to Yahweh ’s house the third day ?"
9 Isaiah said , " This will be the sign to you from Yahweh , that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken : should the shadow go forward ten steps , or go back ten steps ?"
10 Hezekiah answered , " It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps . No , but let the shadow return backward ten steps ."
11 Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh ; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.
12 At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan , king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah , for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick .
13 Hezekiah listened to them , and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things — the silver , the gold , the spices , and the precious oil , and the house of his armor , and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house , or in all his dominion , that Hezekiah didn’t show them .
14 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah , and said to him , " What did these men say? From where did they come to you ?" Hezekiah said, " They have come from a far country, even from Babylon."
15 He said , " What have they seen in your house ?" Hezekiah answered , " They have seen all that is in my house . There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them ."
16 Isaiah said to Hezekiah , " Hear Yahweh ’s word .
17 ‘ Behold , the days come that all that is in your house , and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day , will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left ,’ says Yahweh .
18 ‘ They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you , whom you will father ; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’"
19 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah , " Yahweh ’s word which you have spoken is good ." He said moreover , "Isn’t it so , if peace and truth will be in my days ?"
20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah , and all his might , and how he made the pool , and the conduit , and brought water into the city , aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ?
21 Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place .