Isaiah (Amoz’s son) sent a message to Hezekiah. Isaiah’s Message: This is the message of the Eternal One, Israel’s God: “Because you have come to Me about Assyria’s king, Sennacherib, I have heard every word you have prayed.”

At that time, Hezekiah was deathly sick. The prophet Isaiah (Amoz’s son) went to Hezekiah. Isaiah: This is the Eternal’s message: “This is your last chance to make your final preparations because you are not going to recover; you are going to die.”

Then Hezekiah faced the wall and began to pray to the Eternal.

Hezekiah: Eternal One, I beg You to remember that I have lived in faithfulness and given my heart to you and have practiced goodness before Your eyes. Hezekiah was truly distraught and wept bitterly.

Eternal One: Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of My people, “This is the message of the Eternal One, the God of your ancestor David: ‘I have listened to your prayer and have witnessed the tears falling down your face; therefore I am going to heal you. I want you to go to the Eternal’s temple on the third day.

Hezekiah (to Isaiah): Should I be looking for a sign from the Eternal, a sign that tells me He is going to heal me and that it is time for me to go to the Eternal’s temple on the third day?

Hezekiah: It’s nothing special for the shadow to increase 10 steps. May the shadow retreat 10 steps.

During that period in time, Berodach-baladan, one son of Baladan, Babylon’s king, heard that Hezekiah was ill, so he sent him a gift and get-well messages.

After Hezekiah received the gift and the letters, he gave Berodach-baladan’s messengers a tour of his treasuries and showed them all the silver, gold, spices, oils, armor, and everything else that was in the treasure house. He left nothing out of the tour of his house and province.

Isaiah (to King Hezekiah): What did those men tell you, and where did they come from? Hezekiah: They came from a faraway land—Babylon.

Isaiah: How much of your house did you show to them? What all did they see? Hezekiah: They saw everything. I left nothing out of the tour I gave them through my treasuries.

Hezekiah: The Eternal’s message that you relayed to me is good. (to himself) Is it not good that peace and truth will rule while I still live?

Is not the rest of Hezekiah’s story—his power and his construction of the pool and the conduit to provide water for the city—documented in the book of the chronicles of Judah’s kings?

Hezekiah left this world to sleep with his fathers. His son, Manasseh, then inherited the throne.

Manasseh reconstructed the high places his father, Hezekiah, had demolished. He constructed altars for Baal and crafted a sacred pole, just as Ahab the former king of Israel had done. He offered his praise to all the gods of the skies and was in service to them.

Is not the rest of Manasseh’s story—his wickedness and sin—documented in the book of the chronicles of Judah’s kings?

Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh,

until the Simeonites attacked them during the reign of Judah’s king Hezekiah. They completely destroyed the tents and the Meunites who lived there. The Simeonites now live in their place, where there is pastureland for the flocks.

Ahaz slept with his fathers in Jerusalem, but not in the tombs of the kings of Israel. His son, Hezekiah, succeeded him as king.

Hezekiah, son of Abijah (Zechariah’s daughter), became king when he was 25 years old and reigned 29 years in Jerusalem.

Hezekiah’s first action when he began to reign was reopening and repairing the Eternal’s temple.

Hezekiah (to the Levites): Listen to me. First, you must sanctify yourselves so that you can sanctify the temple of the Eternal One, the True God of your ancestors, and remove the immoral and ungodly items that are there.

Then they told King Hezekiah all they had done. Levites: We have cleansed all of the Eternal’s temple: the altar of burnt offering, the table of unleavened bread, and all of the utensils.

King Hezekiah woke up early and assembled the city leaders at the Eternal’s house.

The men brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as sin offerings representing the atonement of the entire kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. Hezekiah then ordered the priests, the sons of Aaron, to sacrifice for the Southern Kingdom’s sins on the Eternal’s altar,