2 Kings 20 ~ 21

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20:1In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill; and Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, Thus says Jehovah, Put your house in order, for you are about to die and will not live. Compare
20:2And he turned his face to the wall and prayed to Jehovah, saying, Compare
20:3Now, O Jehovah, please remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart and have done what is good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept many tears. Compare
20:4And Isaiah had not gone out of the middle court when the word of Jehovah came to him, saying, Compare
20:5Return and speak to Hezekiah the leader of My people, Thus says Jehovah, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will now heal you: On the third day you will go up to the house of Jehovah; Compare
20:6And I will add to your life fifteen years; and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will put an enclosure around this city for My own sake and for the sake of David My servant. Compare
20:7And Isaiah said, Bring a cake of figs. And they brought it and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. Compare
20:8And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What will be the sign that Jehovah will heal me and that I will go up to the house of Jehovah on the third day? Compare
20:9And Isaiah said, This will be the sign from Jehovah to you, that Jehovah will do this thing which He has spoken. Shall the shadow go forward ten steps or go back ten steps? Compare
20:10And Hezekiah said, It is an easy matter for the shadow to go down ten steps. No; rather let the shadow go backward ten steps. Compare
20:11And Isaiah the prophet cried to Jehovah; and He brought the shadow on the steps, which had descended on the steps of Ahaz, ten steps backward. Compare
20:12At that time Berodach-baladan the son of Baladan, the king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, because he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. Compare
20:13And Hezekiah listened to them and showed them all his treasury, the silver and the gold, and the spices and the fine oil, and his armory and everything which was found among his treasures; there was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them. Compare
20:14Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did these men say? And from where have they come to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a distant land, from Babylon. Compare
20:15And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said, They have seen everything that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them. Compare
20:16Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah: Compare
20:17The days are now coming when everything that is in your house and that your fathers have laid up as a treasure unto this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left, says Jehovah. Compare
20:18And they will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will beget, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. Compare
20:19And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The word of Jehovah which you have spoken is good. He said moreover, Indeed there will be peace and truth in my days. Compare
20:20And 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 book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Compare
20:21And Hezekiah slept with his fathers. And Manasseh his son reigned in his place. Compare
21:1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzibah. Compare
21:2And he did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel. Compare
21:3And he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he raised up altars to Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab the king of Israel had done; and he worshipped all the host of heaven and served them. Compare
21:4And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, concerning which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem will I put My name. Compare
21:5And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah. Compare
21:6And he caused his son to pass through fire and practiced soothsaying and enchantments, and appointed mediums and spiritists; he did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah beyond measure, provoking Him to anger. Compare
21:7And he put the engraved image of the Asherah that he had made in that house concerning which Jehovah had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; Compare
21:8And I will no longer cause the foot of Israel to wander away from the land that I gave their fathers, if only they will be certain to act according to all that I have commanded them and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them. Compare
21:9But they would not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations which Jehovah had destroyed from before the children of Israel. Compare
21:10And Jehovah spoke through His servants the prophets, saying, Compare
21:11Because Manasseh the king of Judah has done these abominations and has done more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has caused Judah also to sin with his idols; Compare
21:12Therefore thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, I am now bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah that both ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. Compare
21:13And over Jerusalem I will stretch the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a pan, wiping it and turning it upside down. Compare
21:14And I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies; Compare
21:15Because they have done what is evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt even to this day. Compare
21:16And Manasseh also shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another, besides his sin by which he caused Judah to sin, doing what was evil in the sight of Jehovah. Compare
21:17And the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin which he committed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Compare
21:18And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. And Amon his son reigned in his place. Compare
21:19Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. Compare
21:20And he did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had done. Compare
21:21And he walked in all the way that his father had walked, and he served the idols that his father had served and worshipped them; Compare
21:22And he forsook Jehovah, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of Jehovah. Compare
21:23And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and they killed the king in his own house. Compare
21:24But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. Compare
21:25And the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Compare
21:26And he was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza. And Josiah his son reigned in his place. Compare

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