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2 Kings 20:2-4
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2 Kings 20:2-4
New English Translation
2 He turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you[a] faithfully and with wholehearted devotion,[b] and how I have carried out your will.”[c] Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.[d]
4 Isaiah had not yet left the middle courtyard[e] when the Lord’s message came to him,
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- 2 Kings 20:3 tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.
- 2 Kings 20:3 tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”
- 2 Kings 20:3 tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”
- 2 Kings 20:3 tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”
- 2 Kings 20:4 tc “Courtyard” (חָצֵר, khatser) is the reading tradition (Qere) also supported by the LXX, while the written text (Kethib) has הָעִיר (haʿir), “the city.”
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