²⁸ Now I will gather you to your ancestors,^(A) and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place and on those who live here.’”^(B)

So they took her answer back to the king.

⁸ “The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,^(A)” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “There will be peace and security in my lifetime.^(B)”

15 Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses^(A) and Samuel^(B) were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people.^(C) Send them away from my presence!^(D) Let them go!

²⁴ So they took him out of his chariot, put him in his other chariot and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.

¹⁴ even if these three men—Noah,^(A) Daniel^[a](B) and Job^(C)—were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness,^(D) declares the Sovereign Lord.

¹⁵ “Or if I send wild beasts^(E) through that country and they leave it childless and it becomes desolate so that no one can pass through it because of the beasts,^{(F) 16} as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved, but the land would be desolate.^(G)

¹⁷ “Or if I bring a sword^(H) against that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass throughout the land,’ and I kill its people and their animals,^{(I) 18} as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved.

¹⁹ “Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath^(J) on it through bloodshed,^(K) killing its people and their animals,^{(L) 20} as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness.^(M)

²¹ “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments^(N)—sword^(O) and famine^(P) and wild beasts and plague^(Q)—to kill its men and their animals!^(R)

²⁰ Therefore I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in peace.^(A) Your eyes^(B) will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place.’”

So they took her answer back to the king.

¹⁹ “The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?”