2 Kings 20:1-11
Hezekiah's Sickness... [ Continue Reading ]
Hezekiah's Sickness... [ Continue Reading ]
In those days, some time during the latter part of his reign, after he had ruled fourteen years, WAS HEZEKIAH SICK UNTO DEATH. He was then thirty-nine years old and in the prime of his life. AND THE PROPHET ISAIAH, THE SON OF AMOZ, CAME TO HIM AND SAID UNTO HIM, THUS SAITH THE LORD, SET THINE HOUSE... [ Continue Reading ]
Then he turned his face to the wall, in order to commune with the Lord without interference and disturbance, AND PRAYED UNTO THE LORD, SAYING,... [ Continue Reading ]
I beseech Thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before Thee, in his entire life and actions, in truth and with a perfect heart, his worship of Jehovah had been without hypocrisy, and he had earnestly opposed every form of idolatry, AND HAVE DONE THAT WHICH IS GOOD IN THY SIGHT. To die in the... [ Continue Reading ]
And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, he had not yet left the middle city, Mount Zion, where the royal palace was situated, THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO HIM, SAYING,... [ Continue Reading ]
Turn again and tell Hezekiah, the captain of My people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David, thy father, to whom Hezekiah had clung with such firmness all his life, I HAVE HEARD THY PRAYER, I HAVE SEEN THY TEARS, both of which pleaded for an extension of life. BEHOLD, I WILL HEAL THEE; ON THE THIR... [ Continue Reading ]
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, who had started on his expedition against Jerusalem in this year, 2 Kings 18:13; AND I WILL DEFEND THIS CITY FOR MINE OWN SAKE AND FOR MY SERVANT DAVID'S SAKE, 2 Kings 19:34.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Isaiah, having returned to the palace according to the command of the Lord, SAID, TAKE A LUMP, a pressed mass, OF FIGS. AND THEY TOOK AND LAID IT ON THE BOIL, the inflammation, ulcer, or carbuncle, which caused all the trouble; AND HE RECOVERED, he revived immediately, the Lord gave him life and... [ Continue Reading ]
And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day? This question was probably asked before Isaiah called for the pressed figs, when he had announced to the king that lie would recover. Hezekiah was so anx... [ Continue Reading ]
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, namely, on the shadow-measurer, or sun-dial, where the length of the shadow was a means of telling the time, go forward ten degrees or go back ten degrees?... [ Continue Reading ]
And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees, if it would merely advance ten steps, this would not seem so very extraordinary; NAY, BUT LET THE SHADOW RETURN BACKWARDS TEN DEGREES, returning through the space which it had already traversed. If we suppose the sun-d... [ Continue Reading ]
And Isaiah, the prophet, cried unto the Lord; and He brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz. The miracle consisted either in a supernatural breaking of the light rays that struck the dial, or, more probably, in the fact that the sun actually returned d... [ Continue Reading ]
At that time Berodach-baladan (or Merodach-baladan), THE SON OF BALADAN, KING OF BABYLON, THE FIRST KING OF BABYLON, then still under Assyrian supremacy, mentioned in sacred history, SENT LETTERS AND A PRESENT UNTO HEZEKIAH; FOR HE HAD HEARD THAT HEZEKIAH HAD BEEN SICK. This was after the return of... [ Continue Reading ]
Hezekiah's Vanity... [ Continue Reading ]
And Hezekiah, flattered by this show of interest on the part of a great power, HEARKENED UNTO THEM, rejoicing on account of them and of the prospect of becoming allied with the mighty Babylonian nation, AND SHOWED THEM ALL THE HOUSE OF HIS PRECIOUS THINGS, used first of all for the storing of rare a... [ Continue Reading ]
Then came Isaiah, the prophet, unto King Hezekiah and said unto him, What said these men, and from whence came they unto thee? These questions were preparatory to calling the king to account, both for yielding to vanity and for entertaining the thought of entering into an alliance with Babylon. AND... [ Continue Reading ]
And he, Isaiah, SAID, WHAT HAVE THEY SEEN IN THINE HOUSE? AND HEZEKIAH, still not realizing that his heart was caught in vanity, ANSWERED, ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE IN MINE HOUSE HAVE THEY SEEN; THERE IS NOTHING AMONG MY TREASURES THAT I HAVE NOT SHOWED THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Isaiah, in reproving the king for this show of weakness, SAID UNTO HEZEKIAH, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, the clays come that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, in the form of treasures of every kind, SHALL BE CARRIED INTO BABYLON; NOTHING SHALL BE LEFT, SAITH THE LORD. The sin of vanity was to be punished by the taking away of the goods o... [ Continue Reading ]
And of thy sons, descendants in general, THAT SHALL ISSUE FROM THEE, WHICH THOU SHALT BEGET, SHALL THEY TAKE AWAY; AND THEY SHALL BE EUNUCHS, footmen, attendants, IN THE PALACE OF THE KING OF BABYLON, reduced to a position of great humiliation, Daniel 1:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, submitting meekly to the decree of the Lord, GOOD IS THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH THOU HAST SPOKEN. He accepted the reproof. AND HE SAID, as though to himself, IS IT NOT GOOD IF PEACE AND TRUTH BE IN MY DAYS? He acknowledged the justice, the faithfulness, and the grace... [ Continue Reading ]
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, the aqueduct which he constructed at the approach of the Assyrian army in order to insure drinking-water to the city in case of a prolonged siege, 2 Chronicles 32:30, ARE TH... [ Continue Reading ]
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh, his son, REIGNED IN HIS STEAD. Hezekiah died in the faith and was given the testimony that lie was a king after the heart of God. Blessed is he who, having departed from the way of strict probity, permits himself to be reproved by the Lord and retur... [ Continue Reading ]