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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] He turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, “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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Footnotes

  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.”

Hezekiah’s Illness(A)

20 In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”

Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, “Remember,(B) Lord, how I have walked(C) before you faithfully(D) and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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