Isaiah 39
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Hezekiah’s Folly
1At that time # 39:1–8 2Kg 20:12–19; 2Ch 32:31 Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah since he heard that he had been ill and had recovered. 2Hezekiah was pleased with the letters, and he showed the envoys his treasure-house #– #the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil #– #and all his armoury, and everything that was found in his treasuries. # 39:2 2Kg 18:15–16 There was nothing in his palace and in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them. # 39:2 2Ch 32:25
3Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him, ‘What did these men say, and where did they come to you from? ’
Hezekiah replied, ‘They came to me from a distant country, from Babylon.’
4Isaiah asked, ‘What have they seen in your palace? ’
Hezekiah answered, ‘They have seen everything in my palace. There isn’t anything in my treasuries that I didn’t show them.’
5Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, ‘Hear the word of the Lord of Armies: # 39:5 Is 28:14; Zch 7:4; 8:1,18 6“Look, the days are coming when everything in your palace and all that your predecessors have stored up until today will be carried off to Babylon; nothing will be left,” says the Lord. # 39:6 2Kg 24:13; 25:13–15; Jr 20:5 7“Some of your descendants #– #who come from you, whom you father #– #will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” ’
8Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, ‘The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good,’ for he thought: There will be peace and security during my lifetime. # 39:8 2Ch 32:26
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