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Hezekiah’s Illness

20 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.”(A)

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Hezekiah’s Illness

38 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.”(A) Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord: “Remember now, O Lord, I implore you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness with a whole heart and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.(B)

Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of your ancestor David: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.(C) I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria and defend this city.(D)

“This is the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has promised:(E) See, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.[a](F)

A writing of King Hezekiah of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:

10 I said: In the noontide of my days
    I must depart;
I am consigned to the gates of Sheol
    for the rest of my years.(G)
11 I said, I shall not see the Lord
    in the land of the living;
I shall look upon mortals no more
    among the inhabitants of the world.(H)
12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
    like a shepherd’s tent;
like a weaver I have rolled up my life;
    he cuts me off from the loom;
from day to night you bring me to an end;(I)
13     I cry for help[b] until morning;
like a lion he breaks all my bones;
    from day to night you bring me to an end.(J)

14 Like a swallow or a crane[c] I clamor;
    I moan like a dove.
My eyes are weary with looking upward.
    O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!(K)
15 But what can I say? For he has spoken to me,
    and he himself has done it.
All my sleep has fled[d]
    because of the bitterness of my soul.(L)

16 O Lord, by these things people live,
    and in all these is the life of my spirit.[e]
    Oh, restore me to health and make me live!
17 Surely it was for my welfare
    that I had great bitterness,
but you have held back[f] my life
    from the pit of destruction,
for you have cast all my sins
    behind your back.(M)
18 For Sheol cannot thank you;
    death cannot praise you;
those who go down to the Pit cannot hope
    for your faithfulness.(N)
19 The living, the living, they thank you,
    as I do this day;
fathers make known to children
    your faithfulness.(O)

20 The Lord will save me,
    and we will sing to stringed instruments[g]
all the days of our lives,
    at the house of the Lord.(P)

[[21 Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a lump of figs and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover.”(Q) 22 Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”]][h]

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Footnotes

  1. 38.8 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 38.13 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  3. 38.14 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  4. 38.15 Cn Compare Syr: Heb I will walk slowly all my years
  5. 38.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  6. 38.17 Cn Compare Gk Vg: Heb loved
  7. 38.20 Heb my stringed instruments
  8. 38.21–22 Q ms lacks 38.21–22

27 He was indeed so ill that he nearly died. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, so that I would not have one sorrow after another.

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Hezekiah’s Sickness

24 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. He prayed to the Lord, and he answered him and gave him a sign.(A) 25 But Hezekiah did not respond according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.(B) 26 Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.(C)

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Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, “Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth.(A)

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.(B) Then he had a proclamation made in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not feed, nor shall they drink water.(C) Humans and animals shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands.(D) Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.”(E)

10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it.(F)

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At one moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, but if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will change my mind about the disaster that I intended to bring on it.(A) And at another moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,(B) 10 but if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will change my mind about the good that I had intended to do to it.(C)

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20 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I have heard your prayer to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria.(A)

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23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself; he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.(A)

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30 because he came close to death for the work of Christ,[a] risking his life to make up for those services that you could not give me.

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Footnotes

  1. 2.30 Other ancient authorities read of the Lord

The Death of Lazarus

11 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.(A) Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill.(B) So the sisters sent a message to Jesus,[a] “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death; rather, it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”(C) Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus,

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  1. 11.3 Gk him

And he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.(A)

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