Hezekiah’s Illness and Prayer

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In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. 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.’”

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Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying,

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“Remember now, LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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Before Isaiah had gone out into the middle part of the city, the LORD’s word came to him, saying,

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“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you shall go up to the LORD’s house.

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I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.”’”

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Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

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Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the LORD’s house the third day?”

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Isaiah said, “This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”

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Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”

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Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.

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