Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery (2 Kings 20:1–11; 2 Chronicles 32:24–31)
1 AKJV In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says the LORD, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not live. BSB BSB: In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
2 AKJV Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, BSB BSB: Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,
3 AKJV And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. BSB BSB: saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 AKJV Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, BSB BSB: And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,
5 AKJV Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add to your days fifteen years. BSB BSB: “Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
6 AKJV And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city. BSB BSB: And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
7 AKJV And this shall be a sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has spoken; BSB BSB: This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:
8 AKJV Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. BSB BSB: I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.
Hezekiah’s Song of Thanksgiving 9 AKJV The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: BSB BSB: This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
10 AKJV I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. BSB BSB: I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
11 AKJV I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. BSB BSB: I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
12 AKJV My age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night will you make an end of me. BSB BSB: My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
13 AKJV I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night will you make an end of me. BSB BSB: I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
14 AKJV Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. BSB BSB: I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
15 AKJV What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. BSB BSB: What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
16 AKJV O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so will you recover me, and make me to live. BSB BSB: O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.
17 AKJV Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for you have cast all my sins behind your back. BSB BSB: Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
18 AKJV For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth. BSB BSB: For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
19 AKJV The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known your truth. BSB BSB: The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
20 AKJV The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD. BSB BSB: The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
21 AKJV For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster on the boil, and he shall recover. BSB BSB: Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
22 AKJV Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD? BSB BSB: And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”
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