Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery
(2 Kings 20:1–11; 2 Chronicles 32:24–31)
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.’” 2Ch 32:24Isa 38:1-82Ki 20:1-112Sa 17:23Jon 3:10Act 9:37Isa 37:21Php 2:27-30
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, Mat 6:61Ki 8:30Psa 50:15Psa 91:15 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. Heb 5:7Heb 6:10Psa 18:20-27Neh 13:142Ch 31:20-212Co 1:12Deu 6:18Jhn 1:47
And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, “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. 1Jn 5:14-15Psa 34:5-6Rev 7:17Luk 1:13Psa 147:3Psa 56:82Ki 19:202Co 7:6 And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city. 1 Isa 37:35Isa 12:6Isa 31:4-52Ch 32:222Ti 4:17 This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Isa 37:30Jdg 6:37-392Ki 20:8-21Isa 7:11-14Jdg 6:17-22Gen 9:13Isa 38:22 I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” 2Ki 20:9-11Jos 10:12-142Ch 32:24Mat 16:12Ch 32:31
So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.
Hezekiah’s Song of Thanksgiving
This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery: 1Sa 2:1-102Ch 29:30Deu 32:39Exo 15:1-21Hos 6:1-2Isa 12:1-6Jdg 5:1-31Job 5:18
I said, “In the prime 2of my life 2Co 1:9Psa 102:24Job 7:7Psa 107:18Isa 38:1Job 17:11-16Job 6:11
I must go through the gates of Sheol
and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
I said, “I will never again see the LORD, Psa 27:13Psa 116:8-9Ecc 9:5-6Job 35:14-15Psa 31:22Psa 6:4-5
even the LORD, in the land of the living;
I will no longer look on mankind
with those who dwell in this world.
My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me 2Co 5:1Heb 1:12Psa 73:142Co 5:42Pe 1:13-14Isa 1:8Isa 13:20Jas 4:14
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.
I composed myself 3until the morning. Dan 6:24Psa 51:81Ki 13:24-261Co 11:30-32Hos 5:14Job 10:16-17Job 16:12-14Psa 39:10
Like a lion He breaks all my bones;
from day until night You make an end of me.
I chirp like a swallow or crane; Isa 59:11Psa 69:3Ezk 7:16Job 30:29Nam 2:7Psa 119:122-123Psa 123:1-4Job 17:3
I moan like a dove.
My eyes grow weak as I look upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
What can I say? 1Ki 21:27Job 7:11Job 10:11Sa 1:102Ki 4:27Ezr 9:10Jhn 12:27Job 21:25
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.
O Lord, by such things men live, 1Co 11:32Heb 12:10-11Mat 4:4Psa 119:25Deu 8:3Isa 64:5Job 33:19-282Co 4:17
and in all of them my spirit finds life.
You have restored me to health
and have let me live.
Surely for my own welfare Isa 43:25Jon 2:6Mic 7:18-19Jer 31:34Psa 30:3Psa 86:13Job 3:25-26Psa 30:6-7
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.
For Sheol cannot thank You; Ecc 9:10Psa 30:9Psa 6:5Psa 115:17-18Psa 88:10-11Num 16:33Luk 16:26-31Mat 25:46
Death cannot praise You.
Those who descend to the Pit
cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
The living, only the living, can thank You, Deu 6:7Psa 119:175Deu 4:9Psa 78:3-6Deu 11:19Exo 12:26-27Exo 13:14-15Gen 18:19
as I do today;
fathers will tell their children
about Your faithfulness.
The LORD will save me; Psa 116:2Psa 145:2Psa 150:4Hab 3:19Psa 116:17-19Psa 27:5-6Psa 30:11-12Psa 33:2
we will play songs on stringed instruments
all the days of our lives
in the house of the LORD.
Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.” 2Ki 20:7-8Jhn 9:6Mrk 7:33
And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?” 2Ki 20:8Jhn 5:14Psa 118:18-19Psa 122:1Psa 42:1-2Psa 84:1-2Psa 84:10-12