2 Kings 20:8-20

8And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?” 9And Isaiah said, “This shall be athe sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?” 10And Hezekiah answered, “It is an easy thing for the shadow bto lengthen ten steps. Rather let the shadow go back ten steps.” 11And Isaiah the prophet called to the Lord, cand he brought the shadow back ten steps, by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz.

Hezekiah and the Babylonian Envoys

12 dAt that time eMerodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, fsent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick. 13And Hezekiah welcomed them, and he showed them gall his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them. 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 have come from a far country, from Babylon.” 15He said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”

16Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord: 17Behold, the days are coming, when hall that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord. 18 iAnd some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, jand they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” 19Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, k“The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?”

20 lThe rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made mthe pool and the conduit nand brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
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