II Kings 20 · מלכים ב

In those days Ḥizqiyyahu fell mortally sick. And the prophet Yesha῾yahu the son of Amoż came to him, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

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

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 Ḥizqiyyahu wept bitterly.

And it came to pass, before Yesha῾yahu was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

Turn back and tell Ḥizqiyyahu the prince of my people, Thus says 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 to the house of the Lord.

And I will add to thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Ashshur; and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

And Yesha῾yahu said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and laid it on the festering place, and he recovered.

And Ḥizqiyyahu said to Yesha῾yahu, What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord on the third day?

And Yesha῾yahu said, This sign shalt thou have of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees: or shall it go backward ten degrees?

And Ḥizqiyyahu answered, It is easier for the shadow to go down ten degrees: no, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

And Yesha῾yahu the prophet cried to the Lord: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Aĥaz.

At that time Berodakh-bal᾽adan, the son of Bal᾽adan, king of Bavel, sent letters and a present to Ḥizqiyyahu: for he heard that Ḥizqiyyahu had been sick.

And Ḥizqiyyahu hearkened to them, and showed them all the house of his treasures, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Ḥizqiyyahu did not show them.

Then came Yesha῾yahu the prophet to king Ḥizqiyyahu, and said to him, What said these men? and from where did they come to thee? And Ḥizqiyyahu said, They are come from a far country, from Bavel.

And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And Ḥizqiy-yahu answered, All the things that are in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.

And Yesha῾yahu said to Ḥizqiyyahu, Hear the word of the Lord.

Behold, days are coming, when all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried into Bavel: nothing shall be left, says 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 Bavel.

Then said Ḥizqiyyahu to Yesha῾yahu, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if there is peace and truth in my days?

And the rest of the acts of Ḥizqiyyahu, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the aqueduct, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehuda?

And Ḥizqiyyahu slept with his fathers: and Menashshe his son reigned in his stead.