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“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]

Isaiah had not yet left the middle courtyard[e] when the Lord’s message came to him, “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David has said: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. The day after tomorrow[f] you will go up to the Lord’s temple.

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Footnotes

  1. 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. 2 Kings 20:3 tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”
  3. 2 Kings 20:3 tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”
  4. 2 Kings 20:3 tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”
  5. 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.”
  6. 2 Kings 20:5 tn Heb “on the third day.”