¹² Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

¹⁹ because your ^(A)heart was tender, and you ^(B)humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become ^(C)a desolation and ^(D)a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you,” says the Lord. ²⁰ “Surely, therefore, I will ^[a]gather you to your fathers, and you ^(E)shall ^[b]be gathered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place.” ’ ” So they brought back word to the king.

¹⁹ So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, ^(A)“The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good!” For he said, “Will there not be peace and truth at least in my days?”

¹⁷ ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this day, ^(A)shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the Lord.

²⁹ “See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he ^(A)has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity in his days. ^(B)In the days of his son I will bring the calamity on his house.”

⁴ So he passed through the mountains of Ephraim and through the land of ^(A)Shalisha, but they did not find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they were not there. Then he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they did not find them.

⁵ When they had come to the land of ^(B)Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come, let ^(C)us return, lest my father cease caring about the donkeys and become worried about us.”

²⁹ And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God ^(A)remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.