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2 Kings 20:1-3
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Hezekiah is Healed

20 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness.[a] 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.’”[b] 2 He turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you[c] faithfully and with wholehearted devotion,[d] and how I have carried out your will.”[e] Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.[f]

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  1. 2 Kings 20:1 tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying.”
  2. 2 Kings 20:1 tn Heb “will not live.”
  3. 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.
  4. 2 Kings 20:3 tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”
  5. 2 Kings 20:3 tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”
  6. 2 Kings 20:3 tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”
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