2 Kings 15:37

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2 Kings 15:35–38 · Berean Standard Bible

35 Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.

36 As for the rest of the acts of Jotham, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

37 (In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)

38 And Jotham rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David his father. And his son Ahaz reigned in his place.

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Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

Isaiah 38:2

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

Isaiah 38:3

saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Isaiah 38:4

And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,

Isaiah 38:5

“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Isaiah 38:6

And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.

Isaiah 38:7

This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:

Isaiah 38:8

I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.

Isaiah 38:9

This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:

Isaiah 38:10

I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”

Isaiah 38:11

I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.

Isaiah 38:13

I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.

Isaiah 38:14

I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”

Isaiah 38:15

What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

Isaiah 38:16

O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.

Isaiah 38:17

Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Isaiah 38:18

For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:19

The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:20

The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.

Isaiah 38:21

Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”

Isaiah 38:22

And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”

2 Kings 10:32

In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory

1 Samuel 3:12

On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end.

Jeremiah 25:29

For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’

Luke 21:28

When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

Deuteronomy 28:48

you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Psalms 78:49

He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.

Isaiah 10:5

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Isaiah 10:7

But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

Jeremiah 16:16

But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.

Jeremiah 43:10

Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.

2 Kings 16:5

Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.

2 Chronicles 28:6

For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.

Isaiah 7:1

Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not overpower the city.

Isaiah 7:8

For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.

Hosea 5:12

So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

Hosea 5:13

When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.