II Kings 20 Hezekiah falls ill

 II Kings 20

Hezekiah falls ill

1 In those days Hezekiah became sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Put your household in order, for you will die and not live.”

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

3 “Oh, Lord, remember that I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is right in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

4 Before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the courtyard, the word of the Lord came to him:

5 “Return and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.

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

7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took it, and laid it on the wound; and he was healed.

8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What is the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?

9 And Isaiah said, This shall be the sign unto you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken: Shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?

10 And Hezekiah said, It is easy for the shadow to go down ten degrees; no, but the shadow will go back ten degrees. 11 Then Isaiah the prophet cried out to the Lord, and he turned the shadow back ten degrees, according to the degrees it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.