1In those days Hezekiah became sick to the point of death. And Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh: Give orders to your house, for you are going to die and will not live.”
2Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, saying,
3“Please, Yahweh, remember how I have walked before you faithfully and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept a great weeping.
4And it happened, before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, that the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
5“Return and say to Hezekiah, the leader of my people: Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of Yahweh.
6And I will add to your days fifteen years, and from the hand of the king of Assyria I will deliver you and this city; and I will shield this city for my own sake and for the sake of David my servant.”
7Then Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
8And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What is the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh on the third day?”
9And Isaiah said, “This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back ten steps?”
10And Hezekiah said, “It is an easy thing for the shadow to lengthen ten steps; no, rather let the shadow go back ten steps.”
11Then Isaiah the prophet called out to Yahweh, and he brought the shadow back the ten steps by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz, backward ten steps.
12At that time Berodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
13And Hezekiah listened to them and showed them all his treasure-house—the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine oil, his armory, and all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing that Hezekiah did not show them in his house and in all his dominion.
14Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They came from a far country, from Babylon.”
15And he said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah said, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my storehouses that I did not show them.”
16Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of Yahweh:
17Look, days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon; nothing will be left, says Yahweh.
18And some of your sons who come from you, whom you father, will be taken, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
19And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of Yahweh that you have spoken is good.” And he said, “Is it not so, if there will be peace and stability in my days?”
20And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought the water into the city—are they not written in the scroll of the annals of the kings of Judah?
21And Hezekiah lay down with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
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