In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death.
And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and
not live.
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August 5, 2007 Prayer That Moves the Heart of God.
Secondary Passages
1 John Chapter 1,
Luke 18
I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I
have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done
that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the
LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the
house of the LORD.
And I will add unto thy days fifteen years;
and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my
servant David's sake.
And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have
of 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?
At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters
and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed them all the house of his
precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the
precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was
found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his
dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.
Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What
said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said,
They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
And he said, What have they seen in thine
house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have
they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed
them.
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which
thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into
Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget,
shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the
king of Babylon.
And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how
he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?