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2 Kings 20:1

& In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, `Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live."'

2 Kings 20:2

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

2 Kings 20:3

& "Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

2 Kings 20:4

& Before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

2 Kings 20:5

& "Return and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, `Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 20:6

& ~"I will add fifteen years to your life, and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.""'

2 Kings 20:7

& Then Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." And they took and laid {it} on the boil, and he recovered.

2 Kings 20:8

& Now Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD the third day?"

2 Kings 20:9

& Isaiah said, "This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?"

2 Kings 20:10

& So Hezekiah answered, "It is easy for the shadow to decline ten steps; no, but let the shadow turn backward ten steps."

2 Kings 20:11

& Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD, and He brought the shadow on the stairway back ten steps by which it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.