¹In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying . Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him , and said to him , “The LORD says , ‘Set your house in order ; for you will die , and not live .’”

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

³“Remember now , LORD , I beg you , how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart , and have done that which is good in your sight .” And Hezekiah wept bitterly .

⁴Before Isaiah had gone out into the middle part of the city , the LORD ’s word came to him , saying ,

⁵“Turn back , and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people , ‘The LORD , the God of David your father, says , “I have heard your prayer . I have seen your tears . Behold , I will heal you . On the third day , you will go up to the LORD ’s house .

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

⁷Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs .”

They took and laid it on the boil , and he recovered .

⁸Hezekiah said to Isaiah , “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me , and that I will go up to the LORD ’s house the third day ?”

⁹Isaiah said , “This will be the sign to you from the LORD , that the LORD will do the thing that he has spoken : should the shadow go forward ten steps , or go back ten steps ?”

¹⁰Hezekiah answered , “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps . No , but let the shadow return backward ten steps .”

¹¹Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD ; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.

¹²At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan , king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah , for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick .

¹³Hezekiah listened to them , and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things —the silver , the gold , the spices , and the precious oil , and the house of his armour , and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house , or in all his dominion , that Hezekiah didn’t show them .

¹⁴Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah , and said to him , “What did these men say? From where did they come to you ?”

Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, even from Babylon.”

¹⁵He said , “What have they seen in your house ?”

Hezekiah answered , “They have seen all that is in my house . There is nothing amongst my treasures that I have not shown them .”

¹⁶Isaiah said to Hezekiah , “Hear the LORD ’s word .

¹⁷‘Behold , the days come that all that is in your house , and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day , will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left ,’ says the LORD .

¹⁸‘They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you , whom you will father ; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

¹⁹Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah , “The LORD ’s word which you have spoken is good .” He said moreover , “Isn’t it so , if peace and truth will be in my days ?”

²⁰Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah , and all his might , and how he made the pool , and the conduit , and brought water into the city , aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ?

²¹Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place .