Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery

20 In those days^(A) Hezekiah became terminally ill.^(B) The prophet Isaiah^(C) son of Amoz came and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Set your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”^(D)

² Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall^(E) and prayed to the Lord, ³ “Please, Lord, remember^(F) how I have walked before you faithfully and wholeheartedly and have done what pleases you.”^[a](G) And Hezekiah wept bitterly.^(H)

⁸ Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What is the sign^(A) that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the Lord’s temple on the third day?”

⁹ Isaiah said, “This is the sign^(B) to you from the Lord that he will do what he has promised: Should the shadow go ahead ten steps or go back ten steps?”

¹⁰ Then Hezekiah answered, “It’s easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. No, let the shadow go back ten steps.” ¹¹ So the prophet Isaiah called out to the Lord, and he brought the shadow^[a] back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz.^[b](C)

Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery

38 In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill.^(A) The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Set your house in order,^(B) for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”^[a]

² Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. ³ He said, “Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before you faithfully and wholeheartedly,^(C) and have done what pleases you.”^(D) And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

⁷ This is the sign to you^(A) from the Lord that he will do what he has promised: ⁸ I am going to make the sun’s shadow that goes down on the stairway of Ahaz go back by ten steps.’”^(B) So the sun’s shadow^[a] went back the ten steps it had descended.