2 Kings 20:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Hezekiah said in answer, It is a simple thing for the shade to go forward; but let it go back ten degrees.

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  • 2 Kgs 2:10 : 10 And he said, You have made a hard request: still, if you see me when I am taken from you, you will get your desire; but if not, it will not be so.
  • 2 Kgs 3:18 : 18 And this will be only a small thing to the Lord: in addition he will give the Moabites into your hands.
  • Isa 49:6 : 6 It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.
  • Mark 9:28-29 : 28 And when he had gone into the house, his disciples said to him privately, Why were we unable to send it out? 29 And he said to them, Nothing will make this sort come out but prayer.
  • John 14:12 : 12 Truly I say to you, He who puts his faith in me will do the very works which I do, and he will do greater things than these, because I am going to my Father.

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  • 2 Kgs 20:8-9
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    91%

    8And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What is to be the sign that the Lord will make me well, and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?

    9And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said; will the shade go forward ten degrees or back?

  • 2 Kgs 20:11-16
    6 verses
    91%

    11Then Isaiah the prophet made prayer to the Lord, and he made the shade go back ten degrees from its position on the steps of Ahaz.

    12At that time, Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he had news that Hezekiah had been ill.

    13And Hezekiah was glad at their coming and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil of great price, and the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores; there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which Hezekiah did not let them see.

    14Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did these men say and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.

    15And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.

    16And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord.

  • Isa 38:7-9
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    89%

    7And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said:

    8See, I will make the shade which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, go back ten steps. So the shade went back the ten steps by which it had gone down.

    9The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, after he had been ill, and had got better from his disease.

  • Isa 38:22
    71%

    22And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?

  • 2 Kgs 20:1-6
    6 verses
    70%

    1In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near.

    2Then, turning his face to the wall, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying,

    3O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

    4Now before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the town, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

    5Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.

    6I will give you fifteen more years of life; and I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria; I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

  • 2 Kgs 20:19
    69%

    19Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. Then he said, ... if in my time there is peace and righteousness?

  • Isa 37:14-15
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    68%

    14And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord,

    15And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,

  • Isa 38:4-5
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    68%

    4Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying,

    5Go to Hezekiah, and say, The Lord, the God of David, your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping: see, I will give you fifteen more years of life.

  • Isa 39:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.

    5Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord of armies:

  • Isa 38:2
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    2And Hezekiah, turning his face to the wall, made his prayer to the Lord, saying,

  • Jer 13:16
    67%

    16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

  • 2 Chr 32:24-26
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    67%

    24In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death; and he made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord in answer gave him a sign.

    25But Hezekiah did not do as had been done to him; for his heart was lifted up in pride; and so wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.

    26But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.

  • Isa 37:10
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    10This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.

  • 2 Kgs 19:10
    67%

    10This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.

  • Isa 37:21
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    21Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.

  • 2 Chr 29:20
    67%

    20Then Hezekiah the king got up early, and got together the great men of the town, and went up to the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 19:14
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    14And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord.

  • Isa 39:8
    67%

    8Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. And he said in his heart, There will be peace and quiet in my days.

  • Isa 37:5
    66%

    5So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

  • Neh 10:17
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    17Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,

  • Job 17:12
    66%

    12They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

  • 2 Chr 30:20
    66%

    20And the Lord gave ear to Hezekiah, and made the people well.

  • 2 Sam 22:10
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    10The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

  • 2 Kgs 19:5
    66%

    5So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

  • Amos 8:9
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    9And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:

  • 2 Chr 32:20
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    20And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, made prayer because of this, crying out to heaven.

  • Isa 7:10
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    10And Isaiah said again to Ahaz,

  • Job 10:21
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    21Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

  • 2 Kgs 19:20
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    20Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer which you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.

  • 1 Kgs 20:9
    66%

    9So he said to the representatives of Ben-hadad, Say to my lord the king, All the orders you sent the first time I will do; but this thing I may not do. And the representatives went back with this answer.

  • 2 Kgs 18:30
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    30And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.

  • 2 Chr 32:11
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    11Is it not Hezekiah who has got you to do it, causing your death from need of food and water, by saying, The Lord our God will give us salvation out of the hands of the king of Assyria?