Message Eleven
The Example of Hezekiah¡¯s Person and Failure
Scripture Reading: Isa. 36¡ª39
1 Sam. 1:25 And they slaughtered the bull and brought the child to Eli.
1 Sam. 2:11b-26 And the child ministered to Jehovah before Eli the priest. 12Now the sons of Eli were worthless men; they did not know Jehovah, 13Nor did they regard the priests¡¯ rightful due with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the priest¡¯s attendant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand while the flesh was boiling, 14And he would thrust it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot; all that the fork brought up, the priest took with it. Thus they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. 15Indeed before they burned the fat, the priest¡¯s attendant would come and say to the man sacrificing, Give some flesh to roast for the priest, for he will not accept boiled flesh from you, but only raw. 16And if the man said to him, Let them burn up the fat first, then take as much as your soul desires; he would say, No, but you shall give it now; otherwise, I will take it by force. 17And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah, for the men despised the offering of Jehovah. 18And Samuel ministered before Jehovah, as a boy wearing a linen ephod. 19And his mother would make him a little robe and bring it up to him yearly when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. 20And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, May Jehovah give you seed by this woman in place of the one she requested of Jehovah; and they would go back to their place. 21And Jehovah visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew before Jehovah. 22Now Eli was very old, and he heard of all that his sons did to all Israel and how they lay with the women who were engaged in service at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. 23And he said to them, Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all this people. 24No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear Jehovah¡¯s people spreading. 25If one man sins against another man, God will arbitrate for him; but if a man sins against Jehovah, who will arbitrate for him? But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for Jehovah was pleased to kill them. 26And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor both with Jehovah and with men.
1 Sam. 3:9 And Eli said to Samuel, Go and lie down, and if He calls you, you shall say, Speak, O Jehovah; for Your servant is listening. And Samuel went and lay down in his place.
1 Tim. 6:11 But you, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, meekness.
2 Tim. 3:17 That the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
Gal. 3:3-4 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? 4Have you suffered so many things in vain, if indeed it was in vain?
Gal. 5:7 You were running well. Who hindered you that you would not believe and obey the truth?
Prov. 4:18 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, / Which shines brighter and brighter until the full day.
2 Kings 18:1-8 And in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah, the king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, the king of Judah, began to reign. 2He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother¡¯s name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah. 3And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that David his father had done. 4He removed the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherah and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the children of Israel had burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. 5He trusted in Jehovah the God of Israel, so that after him there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any among those who were before him. 6And he clung to Jehovah; he did not turn away from following after Him but kept His commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses. 7And Jehovah was with him; everywhere he went, he prospered. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him. 8He struck the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from the watchmen¡¯s tower to the fortified city.
2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherah and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the children of Israel had burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
2 Chron. 29:3-36 He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Jehovah and repaired them. 4And he brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them at the east square. 5And he said to them, Listen to me, you Levites: Sanctify yourselves now, and sanctify the house of Jehovah, the God of your fathers; and bring out the impurity from the holy place. 6For our fathers were unfaithful and did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah our God, and they forsook Him and turned their faces from the dwelling place of Jehovah, and they turned their backs on Him. 7They also shut up the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps; and they did not burn the incense, nor did they offer up the burnt offering in the holy place to the God of Israel. 8Therefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He made them an object of horror, astonishment, and hissing, as you see with your own eyes. 9For indeed, our fathers fell by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are captives because of this. 10Now it is on my heart to make a covenant with Jehovah the God of Israel, that His burning anger may turn away from us. 11My sons, do not now be negligent, for Jehovah has chosen you to stand before Him to minister to Him and to be His ministers and burn incense.
12Then the Levites rose up: Mahath the son of Amasai and Joel the son of Azariah, from among the sons of the Kohathites; and from among the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah and Eden the son of Joah; 13And of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah; 14And of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel. 15And they gathered their brothers together and sanctified themselves. And they went in, according to the command of the king by the words of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Jehovah. 16And the priests went into the inner part of the house of Jehovah to cleanse it; and they brought out into the court of the house of Jehovah all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Jehovah, and the Levites took it to carry it outside to the brook Kidron. 17And they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify the house, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the portico of Jehovah; then they sanctified the house of Jehovah for eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. 18Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said, We have cleansed the whole house of Jehovah: the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels and the table of the rows of bread with all its vessels. 19And all the vessels that King Ahaz cast out during his reign when he trespassed we have prepared and sanctified, and they are now before the altar of Jehovah.
20Then Hezekiah the king rose up early and gathered all the leaders of the city and went up to the house of Jehovah. 21And they brought seven bulls and seven rams and seven lambs and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he ordered the sons of Aaron, the priests, to offer them up on the altar of Jehovah. 22So they slaughtered the cattle, and the priests took the blood and sprinkled it on the altar; then they slaughtered the rams and sprinkled the blood on the altar, and they slaughtered the lambs and sprinkled the blood on the altar. 23Then they brought the male goats of the sin offering before the king and the congregation, and they laid their hands on them. 24And the priests slaughtered them and offered their blood as a sin offering upon the altar to make expiation for all Israel, for the king had commanded the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel. 25And he set the Levites in the house of Jehovah with cymbals, with harps, and with lyres in the way David and Gad the king¡¯s seer and Nathan the prophet had commanded, for the commandment was from Jehovah through His prophets. 26And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests, with the trumpets. 27And Hezekiah ordered the offering up of the burnt offering at the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of Jehovah began also, as well as the trumpets with the accompaniment of the instruments of David the king of Israel. 28And the whole congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters trumpeted¡ªall this until the burnt offering was finished.
29And when the offering was finished, the king and all who were found with him bowed down and worshipped. 30And Hezekiah the king and the leaders commanded the Levites to praise Jehovah with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they praised with rejoicing and bowed down and worshipped. 31Then Hezekiah responded and said, Now you have consecrated yourselves to Jehovah; come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of Jehovah. So the congregation brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were willing in heart brought burnt offerings. 32And the number of burnt offerings that the congregation brought was seventy cattle, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to Jehovah. 33And the things consecrated were six hundred cattle and three thousand sheep; 34However the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so their brothers the Levites aided them until the work was finished and until the rest of the priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in sanctifying themselves. 35And besides the abundance of burnt offerings there were also the fat of the peace offerings and the drink offerings for the burnt offerings. So the service of the house of Jehovah was established. 36And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced over what God had prepared for the people, for the thing had happened so suddenly.
2 Chron. 30:1¡ª31:1 And Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh telling them to come to the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem to hold the Passover to Jehovah the God of Israel. 2For the king and his officers and all the congregation in Jerusalem had taken counsel to hold the Passover in the second month, 3Because they could not hold it at that time, for the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number nor had the people gathered to Jerusalem. 4And the matter seemed right in the sight of the king and in the sight of all the congregation. 5So they established a decree to send a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, telling them to come to hold the Passover to Jehovah the God of Israel in Jerusalem; for they had not held it for a long time, as it was decreed in writing. 6And as the king had commanded, the runners went with the letters from the hand of the king and his officers throughout all Israel and Judah, saying, You children of Israel, return to Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will return to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria. 7And do not be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that He made them a desolation, as you now see. 8Do not now be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; yield to Jehovah, and come to His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve Jehovah your God, that His burning anger may turn away from you. 9For when you turn to Jehovah, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive and will return to this land, for Jehovah your God is gracious and compassionate, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him. 10So the runners passed from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them. 11Nevertheless some men from Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. 12Moreover the hand of God was on Judah, giving them one heart to perform the commandment of the king and the officers by the word of Jehovah.
13And many people gathered at Jerusalem to hold the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great congregation. 14And they rose up and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they removed all the incense altars and threw them into the brook Kidron. 15Then they slaughtered the passover sacrifice on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and they sanctified themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of Jehovah. 16And they stood at their station after their custom, according to the law of Moses, the man of God: The priests sprinkled the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites. 17For there were many in the congregation who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites were charged with slaughtering the passover sacrifices for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Jehovah. 18For a great number of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh and Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the passover otherwise than as prescribed; for Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, May Jehovah the Good expiate for everyone 19Who has prepared his heart to seek after God, after Jehovah, the God of his fathers, even though he is not according to the rules of purification for the sanctuary. 20And Jehovah heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
21And the children of Israel who were found at Jerusalem held the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great rejoicing, and the Levites and the priests praised Jehovah day by day, with loud instruments played to Jehovah. 22And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who showed themselves well-skilled in their service to Jehovah, and so they ate the food of the appointed feast for seven days, sacrificing sacrifices of peace offerings and extolling Jehovah, the God of their fathers. 23And the whole congregation took counsel to hold the feast another seven days, and they held the feast those seven days with rejoicing. 24For Hezekiah the king of Judah contributed one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep to the congregation, and the leaders contributed one thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep to the congregation, and a great number of priests sanctified themselves. 25And all the congregation of Judah with the priests and the Levites and all the congregation who came from Israel and the sojourners who came from the land of Israel and dwelt in Judah rejoiced, 26And there was great rejoicing in Jerusalem, for since the days of Solomon the son of David, the king of Israel, there had not been the like in Jerusalem. 27Then the Levitical priests rose up and blessed the people; and their voice was heard and their prayer went up to His sanctuary, to heaven. 31:1And when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke down the pillars and hewed down the Asherahs and pulled down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin and in Ephraim and Manasseh until they destroyed them all. And all the children of Israel returned to their cities, each man to his own possessions.
2 Chron. 31:2-21 And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites by their divisions, each of the priests and the Levites according to his service, for the burnt offering and for the peace offerings, to minister and give thanks and praise in the gates of the temple of Jehovah. 3Also he appointed the king¡¯s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, the morning and evening burnt offerings and the burnt offerings of the Sabbaths and the new moon and the appointed feasts, as written in the law of Jehovah. 4And he commanded the people who dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion for the priests and the Levites, that they might devote themselves to the law of Jehovah. 5And when the commandment went out, the children of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of the grain and of the new wine and of the fresh oil and of the honey and of all the produce of the field; and they brought the tithe of everything in abundance. 6And the children of Israel and Judah who dwelt in the cities of Judah also brought the tithe of the herd and of the flock and the tithe of the dedicated things, which had been dedicated to Jehovah their God, and laid them heap upon heap. 7In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and in the seventh month they finished. 8And when Hezekiah and the leaders came and saw the heaps, they blessed Jehovah and His people Israel. 9And Hezekiah inquired of the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps; 10And Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, spoke to him and said, Since the time that the people began to bring the contributions into the house of Jehovah, there has been eating and satisfaction and an abundance left over, for Jehovah has blessed His people and this great amount is left over.
11Then Hezekiah gave orders to prepare storechambers in the house of Jehovah, and they prepared them. 12And they brought in the contribution and the tithe and dedicated things faithfully. And Conaniah the Levite was ruler over them, and Shimei his brother was second, 13And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah were overseers under Conaniah and Shimei his brother by appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of the house of God. 14And Kore the son of Imna the Levite, the gatekeeper on the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the contributions of Jehovah and the most holy things. 15And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, serving faithfully in the cities of the priests, to distribute the portion to their brothers by divisions, great and small alike, 16Except for those who were enrolled by genealogy, males from three years old and upward, all who went to the house of Jehovah for their day-to-day duties, for their service in their offices by their divisions.
17Now concerning the enrollment of the priests by genealogy, it was by their fathers¡¯ houses; and that of the Levites of those twenty years old and upward was by their offices in their divisions. 18And the enrollment by genealogy included all their little ones, their wives, and their sons and daughters, the whole congregation of them; for they sanctified themselves faithfully in holiness. 19And for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the pasture lands of their cities, in each and every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to distribute portions to all the males among the priests and to all who were enrolled by genealogy among the Levites. 20And Hezekiah did this throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and upright and faithful before Jehovah his God. 21And in every work that he began in service to the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandment, to seek after his God, he did it with all his heart and prospered.
2 Chron. 32:1-5 After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib the king of Assyria came and entered Judah. And he encamped against the fortified cities and intended to break into them for himself. 2And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that his face was set to fight against Jerusalem, 3He took counsel with his officers and mighty men to stop the water of the fountains that were outside the city, and they helped him. 4So many people gathered together and stopped all the fountains and the brook that flowed through the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come and find an abundance of water? 5And he took courage and built up all the wall that was broken down and erected towers on it and built another wall outside; and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David and made weapons and shields in abundance.
2 Chron. 32:6-8 And he set battle captains over the people and gathered them to himself in the square at the gate of the city. And he encouraged them, saying, 7Be strong and be bold; do not be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria or because of all the multitude that is with him, for there is Someone greater with us than with him: 8With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is Jehovah our God to help us and to fight our battles. And the people relied on the words of Hezekiah the king of Judah.
2 Kings 18:7 And Jehovah was with him; everywhere he went, he prospered. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him.
Isa. 37:1 And when King Hezekiah heard, he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of Jehovah.
Isa. 37:14-20 And Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and Hezekiah went up to the house of Jehovah and spread it before Jehovah. 15And Hezekiah prayed to Jehovah, saying, 16O Jehovah of hosts, God of Israel, You who are enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth; You made the heavens and the earth. 17Incline Your ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open Your eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and listen to all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent messengers to reproach the living God. 18Truly, O Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries and their land, 19And have cast their gods into the fire, because they were not gods, but the work of men¡¯s hands, wood and stone; so they destroyed them. 20And now, O Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone are Jehovah.
Isa. 37:21-38 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Because you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib the king of Assyria, 22This is the word which Jehovah has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion / Has despised you and laughed at you; / The daughter of Jerusalem / Has shaken her head behind you. 23Whom have you reproached and reviled? / Against whom have you lifted up your voice / And lifted up your eyes haughtily? / Against the Holy One of Israel. 24By your servants you have reproached the Lord, / And you have said, In the multitude of my chariots, / I have come up to the heights of the mountains, / To the sides of Lebanon. / And I will cut down its tall cedars, / And the choicest of its cypresses: / I will enter into its farthest height / And its luxuriant forest. 25I have dug; / I have drunk water; / With the sole of my foot I have dried up / All the rivers of Egypt. 26Have you not heard / That long ago I did it; / And from the days of old I had formed it? / Now I have brought it to pass, / That you should destroy fortified cities, / And make them into ruinous heaps. 27Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength; / They were dismayed and felt ashamed; / And they were like vegetation of the field / And green shoots of tender grass, / Like grass which grows on the housetops / And is scorched before it has grown up. 28But I know your sitting down, / And your going out and your coming in, / And your raging against Me. 29Because your raging against Me / And your arrogance has come up into My ears, / I will put My hook in your nose / And My bridle in your lips, / And turn you back on the way by which you came. 30This shall be the sign to you: This year you shall eat that which grows up of itself, and the second year that which shoots up from the same, and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 31And the remnant of those who have escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32For a remnant will go forth out of Jerusalem, and from Mount Zion those who have escaped. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this. 33Therefore, thus says Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come to this city, / Nor shoot an arrow there; / Neither shall he come against it with shields, / And build up a mound against it. 34By the way on which he came, / By the same shall he return, / And into this city he shall not come, / Declares Jehovah. 35And around this city I will put an enclosure / To save it, / For My own sake / And for the sake of David, My servant. 36Then the angel of Jehovah went out and struck the Assyrians¡¯ camp, a hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when they arose early in the morning, all of them were corpses, dead. 37Then Sennacherib the king of Assyria departed and went back to dwell in Nineveh. 38And when he was worshipping in the house of his god Nisroch, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons slew him with the sword; and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
Isa. 37:33-35 Therefore, thus says Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come to this city, / Nor shoot an arrow there; / Neither shall he come against it with shields, / And build up a mound against it. 34By the way on which he came, / By the same shall he return, / And into this city he shall not come, / Declares Jehovah. 35And around this city I will put an enclosure / To save it, / For My own sake / And for the sake of David, My servant.
Isa. 38:1-22 In 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. 2And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Jehovah, 3And said, Now, O Jehovah, please remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept many tears. 4Then the word of Jehovah came to Isaiah, saying, 5Go and speak to Hezekiah, Thus says Jehovah, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; I will now add to your life fifteen years. 6And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will put an enclosure around this city. 7And this will be the sign from Jehovah to you, that Jehovah will do this thing which He has spoken. 8Behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which has gone down with the sun on the steps of Ahaz, to go back ten steps. So the sun¡¯s shadow went back ten steps on the steps on which it had gone down. 9The writing of Hezekiah the king of Judah when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness: 10I said, In the middle of my days, / I will go into the gates of Sheol; / I have been deprived of the rest of my years. 11I said, I will not see Jah, / Jah in the land of the living; / I will not look on man any longer, / While I am with those who dwell where everything has ceased. 12Like a shepherd¡¯s tent, / My dwelling has been pulled up and removed from me. / Like a weaver, I have rolled up my life. / He will cut me off from the loom; / From day until night You make an end of me. 13I have stilled myself until the morning; / Like a lion, so He breaks all my bones; / From day until night You make an end of me. 14Like a swallow and a crane, so I twitter; / Like a dove, I mourn; / My eyes look languishingly above; / O Lord, I am oppressed; be my surety. 15What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, / And He Himself has done it; / I will walk deliberately all my years, / Because of the bitterness of my soul. 16O Lord, upon these things men live; / And in all of these things is the life of my spirit; / Therefore may You restore my strength / And make me live. 17Indeed for peace I had bitterness, yes, bitterness; / But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of destruction, / Because You have cast behind Your back / All my sins. 18For Sheol cannot thank You, / And Death cannot praise You; / They that go down to the pit / Cannot hope in Your truth. 19The living, the living, he will praise You, / As I do today; / A father shall make known / Your truth to his children. 20Jehovah is ready to save me; / Therefore we will sing my songs, / With stringed instruments, / All the days of our life, / In the house of Jehovah. 21Then Isaiah said, Let them take a cake of figs and rub it upon the boil, and he will live. 22Hezekiah had also said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah?
Isa. 38:5 Go and speak to Hezekiah, Thus says Jehovah, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; I will now add to your life fifteen years.
Isa. 38:15 What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, / And He Himself has done it; / I will walk deliberately all my years, / Because of the bitterness of my soul.
Isa. 39:1-8 At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, the king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah because he had heard that he had been sick and had recovered. 2And Hezekiah was glad for them and showed them his treasury, the silver and the gold, and the spices and the fine oil, and his whole 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. 3Then 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 to me from a distant land, from Babylon. 4And 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. 5Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah of hosts: 6The 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. 7And 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. 8And 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.
2 Kings 18:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother¡¯s name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.
Isa. 38:5 Go and speak to Hezekiah, Thus says Jehovah, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; I will now add to your life fifteen years.
Isa. 38:2-20 2And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Jehovah, 3And said, Now, O Jehovah, please remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept many tears¡.¡± (for remaining verses see above IV).
Isa. 39:1-2 At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, the king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah because he had heard that he had been sick and had recovered. 2And Hezekiah was glad for them and showed them his treasury, the silver and the gold, and the spices and the fine oil, and his whole 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.
1 Pet. 5:5 In like manner, younger men, be subject to elders; and all of you gird yourselves with humility toward one another, because God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.
Psa. 42:7a Deep calls unto deep
Matt. 6:3-4 But you, when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4So that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.
Matt. 6:6 But you, when you pray, enter into your private room, and shut your door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.
Matt. 13:6 But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered.
Matt. 13:21 Yet he does not have root in himself but lasts only for a time, and when affliction or persecution occurs because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.
Isa. 37:31 And the remnant of those who have escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
Isa. 39:5-8 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah of hosts: 6The 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. 7And 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. 8And 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.