Isaiah 38:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Go 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.

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  • 2 Kgs 18:2 : 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.
  • 2 Kgs 18:13 : 13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.
  • 2 Kgs 19:20 : 20 Then 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 Chr 17:2-4 : 2 And Nathan said to David, Do whatever is in your heart, for God is with you. 3 But that same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying, 4 Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:
  • 2 Chr 34:3 : 3 In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.
  • Job 14:5 : 5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;
  • Ps 34:5-6 : 5 Let your eyes be turned to him and you will have light, and your faces will not be shamed. 6 This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.
  • Ps 56:8 : 8 You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?
  • Ps 89:3-4 : 3 I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant; 4 I will make your seed go on for ever, your kingdom will be strong through all generations. (Selah.)
  • Ps 116:15 : 15 Dear in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints.
  • Ps 147:3 : 3 He makes the broken-hearted well, and puts oil on their wounds.
  • Isa 7:13-14 : 13 And he said, Give ear now, O family of David: is it not enough that you are driving men to disgust? will you do the same to my God? 14 For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.
  • Matt 22:32 : 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.
  • Luke 1:13 : 13 But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.
  • Acts 27:24 : 24 Saying, Have no fear, Paul, for you will come before Caesar, and God has given to you all those who are sailing with you.
  • 2 Cor 7:6 : 6 But God who gives comfort to the poor in spirit gave us comfort by the coming of Titus;
  • 1 John 5:14-15 : 14 And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us: 15 And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.
  • Rev 7:17 : 17 For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.
  • 2 Sam 7:3-5 : 3 And Nathan said to the king, Go and do whatever is in your heart; for the Lord is with you. 4 Now that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying, 5 Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?
  • 1 Kgs 8:25 : 25 So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel before me, if only your children give attention to their ways, walking before me as you have done.
  • 1 Kgs 9:4-5 : 4 As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions; 5 Then I will make the seat of your rule over Israel certain for ever, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be king in Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 11:12-13 : 12 I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son. 13 Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.
  • 1 Kgs 15:4 : 4 But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;

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    1 In 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.

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

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