2 Kings 20:1

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2 Kings 20:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

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.’”

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

3 “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.

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2 Chronicles 32:24

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So he prayed to the LORD, who spoke to him and gave him a sign.

2 Chronicles 32:25

But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 32:26

Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.

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.

John 11:1

At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

John 11:2

(Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)

John 11:3

So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”

John 11:4

When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

John 11:5

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Philippians 2:27

He was sick indeed, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.

Philippians 2:30

because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.

2 Kings 19:2

And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz

2 Kings 19:20

Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

Jeremiah 18:7

At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

Jeremiah 18:8

But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

Jeremiah 18:9

And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,

Jeremiah 18:10

and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.

Jonah 3:4

On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”

Jonah 3:5

And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

Jonah 3:6

When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Jonah 3:7

Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.

Jonah 3:8

Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

Jonah 3:10

When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.