Struck with a fatal illness, Hezekiah prays and weeps, and the LORD grants him fifteen more years, confirmed by the miraculous sign of the shadow moving backward. But when envoys arrive from the rising power of Babylon, Hezekiah proudly shows them all his treasures, and Isaiah foretells that one day all of it, and Hezekiah’s own descendants, will be carried off to Babylon.
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2 Kings 20
c. 700 BCHezekiah is healed and given fifteen more years, but foolishly shows his treasures to envoys from Babylon.
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