2 Kings 20

1 in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) be weak: ill Hezekiah to/for to die and to come (in): come to(wards) him Isaiah son: child Amoz [the] prophet and to say to(wards) him thus to say LORD to command to/for house: home your for to die you(m. s.) and not to live

About that time, Hezekiah became very ill. [He thought that he] was about to die. Isaiah the prophet came to him and said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘You should tell the people in your palace what you want them to do after you die, because you are not going to recover from this illness. You are going to die.’”

2 and to turn: turn [obj] face his to(wards) [the] wall and to pray to(wards) LORD to/for to say

Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and prayed,

3 Please! LORD to remember please [obj] which to go: walk to/for face: before your in/on/with truth: faithful and in/on/with heart complete and [the] pleasant in/on/with eye: seeing your to make: do and to weep Hezekiah weeping great: large

“Yahweh, do not forget that I have always served you faithfully, and I have done things that pleased you.” Then Hezekiah started to cry loudly.

4 and to be Isaiah not to come out: come (court *Q(K)*) [the] middle and word LORD to be to(wards) him to/for to say

Isaiah left the king, but before he had crossed the middle courtyard of the palace, Yahweh gave him a message

5 to return: return and to say to(wards) Hezekiah leader people my thus to say LORD God David father your to hear: hear [obj] prayer your to see: see [obj] tears your look! I to heal to/for you in/on/with day [the] third to ascend: rise house: temple LORD

which said, “Go back to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, and say to him, ‘I, Yahweh, the God whom your ancestor King David [worshiped], have heard what you prayed. And I have seen your tears. So, listen: I will heal you. Two days from now you will [be able to] go up to my temple.

6 and to add upon day your five ten year and from palm king Assyria to rescue you and [obj] [the] city [the] this and to defend upon [the] city [the] this because me and because David servant/slave my

I will enable you to live for 15 more years. And I will rescue you and this city again from the power [MTY] of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for the sake of my own reputation and because of what I promised King David, who served me [well].’”

7 and to say Isaiah to take: bring fig cake fig and to take: bring and to set: put upon [the] boil and to live

So Isaiah [returned to the palace and told Hezekiah what Yahweh had said. Then he] [to Hezekiah’s servants], “Bring a paste made of boiled figs. Put some of it on his boil, and he will get well.”

8 and to say Hezekiah to(wards) Isaiah what? sign: miraculous for to heal LORD to/for me and to ascend: rise in/on/with day [the] third house: temple LORD

Then Hezekiah replied to Isaiah, “What will Yahweh do to prove that he will heal me and that two days from now I will be able to go up to the temple?”

9 and to say Isaiah this to/for you [the] sign: miraculous from with LORD for to make: do LORD [obj] [the] word: thing which to speak: promise to go: went [the] shadow ten step if to return: return ten step

Isaiah replied, “Yahweh will do something that will prove to you that he will do what he promised. Do you want him to cause the shadow on the stairway/sundial to go back ten steps/degrees, or to go forward ten steps/degrees?”

10 and to say Hezekiah to lighten to/for shadow to/for to stretch ten step not for to return: return [the] shadow backwards ten step

Hezekiah replied, “It is easy to cause the shadow to move forward, [because that is what it always does]. Tell him to cause it to move backward ten steps/degrees.”

11 and to call: call to Isaiah [the] prophet to(wards) LORD and to return: return [obj] [the] shadow in/on/with step which to go down in/on/with step Ahaz backwards ten step

So Isaiah prayed earnestly to Yahweh, and Yahweh caused the shadow to go backward ten steps/degrees on the stairway/sundial that King Ahaz had made (OR, that workers had built for King Ahaz).

12 in/on/with time [the] he/she/it to send: depart Merodach-baladan Merodach-baladan son: child Baladan king Babylon scroll: document and offering: gift to(wards) Hezekiah for to hear: hear for be weak: ill Hezekiah

At that time, King Merodach-Baladan, the son of Baladan the [previous] King of Babylonia, heard a report that King Hezekiah had been very sick. So he wrote some letters and gave them to some messengers to take to Hezekiah, along with a gift.

13 and to hear: welcome upon them Hezekiah and to see: see them [obj] all house: home (treasure his *Q(K)*) [obj] [the] silver: money and [obj] [the] gold and [obj] [the] spice and [obj] oil [the] pleasant and [obj] house: home article/utensil his and [obj] all which to find in/on/with treasure his not to be word: thing which not to see: see them Hezekiah in/on/with house: home his and in/on/with all dominion his

[When the messengers arrived], Hezekiah welcomed them gladly. Then he showed them everything that was in his (treasure houses/places where very valuable things were stored)—the silver and gold, the spices, the nice-smelling olive oil, and all the weapons [for his soldiers]. He showed them all the [valuable] things in his storerooms and everywhere else in his kingdom [HYP]; he showed them everything.

14 and to come (in): come Isaiah [the] prophet to(wards) [the] king Hezekiah and to say to(wards) him what? to say [the] human [the] these and from where? to come (in): come to(wards) you and to say Hezekiah from land: country/planet distant to come (in): come from Babylon

Then the prophet Isaiah went to Hezekiah and asked him, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” Hezekiah replied, “They came from a country very far from here. They came from Babylonia.”

15 and to say what? to see: see in/on/with house: home your and to say Hezekiah [obj] all which in/on/with house: home my to see: see not to be word: thing which not to see: see them in/on/with treasure my

Isaiah asked, “What did they see in your palace?” Hezekiah replied, “They saw everything. I showed them absolutely everything that I own—all my valuable things.”

16 and to say Isaiah to(wards) Hezekiah to hear: hear word LORD

[Isaiah knew that Hezekiah had done a very foolish thing]. So Isaiah said to him, “Listen to what Yahweh says to you.

17 behold day to come (in): come and to lift: bear all which in/on/with house: home your and which to store father your till [the] day [the] this Babylon [to] not to remain word: thing to say LORD

There will be a time when everything that is still in your palace, all the valuable things that were put there by you and your ancestors, will be carried away to Babylon. There will be nothing left here! [That is what] Yahweh says [to you]

18 and from son: descendant/people your which to come out: come from you which to beget (to take: take *Q(K)*) and to be eunuch in/on/with temple: palace king Babylon

Furthermore, some of your own descendants will be forced to go there, and they will be castrated in order that they may become servants in the palace of the King of Babylon.”

19 and to say Hezekiah to(wards) Isaiah pleasant word LORD which to speak: speak and to say not if peace and truth: certain to be in/on/with day my

Then Hezekiah replied to Isaiah, “That message from Yahweh that you have given to me is good.” He said that because he was thinking, “Even if that happens, there will be peace and security [in Israel] all the rest of my life.”

20 and remainder word: deed Hezekiah and all might his and which to make [obj] [the] pool and [obj] [the] conduit and to come (in): bring [obj] [the] water [the] city [to] not they(masc.) to write upon scroll: book Chronicles [the] day to/for king Judah

[If you want to know more about] [RHQ] all the other things that Hezekiah did, about his brave deeds in battle, about his ordering a reservoir to be built in the city and a tunnel [to be dug] to bring water into the reservoir, they are all written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.

21 and to lie down: be dead Hezekiah with father his and to reign Manasseh son: child his underneath: instead him

Later Hezekiah died [EUP], and his son Manasseh became the king.