2 Kings 20:8

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Hezekiah asked Isaiah, "What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?"

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  • Judg 6:17 : 17 Gideon replied, 'If I have found favor in your sight, give me a sign that it is really you speaking to me.'
  • Judg 6:37-40 : 37 Look, I am placing a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If dew is only on the fleece, and the ground remains dry, then I will know that you will deliver Israel by my hand, as you have said. 38 And that is exactly what happened. When Gideon rose early the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung enough dew from it to fill a bowl with water. 39 Then Gideon said to God, 'Please do not be angry with me, but let me make one more request. Allow me to test just once more with the fleece. Let the fleece remain dry, while dew covers the ground around it.' 40 That night, God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and the ground around it was covered with dew.
  • 2 Kgs 19:29 : 29 And this will be a sign for you: This year you will eat what grows by itself, and in the second year, what springs from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
  • 2 Kgs 20:5 : 5 "Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of My people: This is what the LORD, the God of your ancestor David, says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to the house of the LORD.
  • Isa 7:11 : 11 'Ask the Lord your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.'
  • Isa 7:14 : 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
  • Isa 38:22 : 22 Hezekiah had asked, "What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?"
  • Hos 6:2 : 2 After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, so that we may live before Him.

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  • Isa 38:21-22
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    21Isaiah had said, "Prepare a lump of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover."

    22Hezekiah had asked, "What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?"

  • 2 Kgs 20:9-12
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    9Isaiah answered, "This is the sign from the LORD to you that He will do what He has promised: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back ten steps?"

    10Hezekiah answered, "It is an easy thing for the shadow to move forward ten steps; rather, let it go back ten steps."

    11Then the prophet Isaiah called out to the LORD, and He made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairway of Ahaz, the steps it had descended.

    12At that time, Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah because he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

  • 2 Kgs 20:1-7
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    1In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill, and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, "This is what the LORD says: Set your house in order, for you are going to die; you will not recover."

    2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

    3saying, "Please, LORD, remember how I have walked before You in truth, wholeheartedly, and have done what is good in Your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

    4Before Isaiah had gone out of the middle courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him:

    5"Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of My people: This is what the LORD, the God of your ancestor David, says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to the house of the LORD.

    6I will add fifteen years to your life. I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for My sake and for the sake of My servant David."

    7Then Isaiah said, "Prepare a lump of figs." So they took it and placed it on the boil, and he recovered.

  • 2 Chr 32:24
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    24In those days Hezekiah became very sick, to the point of death. He prayed to the LORD, who answered him and gave him a miraculous sign.

  • Isa 38:1-9
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    1In those days, Hezekiah became sick to the point of death. The prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came to him and said, "This is what the LORD says: 'Set your house in order, for you are about to die and will not recover.'"

    2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD.

    3He said, "Please, LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with a wholehearted devotion, and how I have done what is good in Your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

    4Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:

    5"Go and tell Hezekiah: This is what the LORD, the God of your ancestor David, says: 'I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.'"

    6I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.

    7This will be the sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised.

    8Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the sun on the stairway of Ahaz go backward ten steps. And the sun moved back ten steps on the stairway where it had gone down.

    9A writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered:

  • 2 Kgs 20:14-16
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    14Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, "What did these men say, and where did they come from?" Hezekiah replied, "They came from a distant land—from Babylon."

    15"What did they see in your palace?" Isaiah asked. Hezekiah replied, "They saw everything in my palace. There is nothing in my treasuries that I did not show them."

    16Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD:

  • 2 Chr 30:20
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    20And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

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    3Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and asked him, "What did these men say, and where did they come from?" Hezekiah replied, "They came to me from a distant land, from Babylon."

    4Then Isaiah asked, "What have they seen in your palace?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen everything in my palace. There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them."

    5Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD of Armies:

  • 2 Kgs 20:19
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    19Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good," for he thought, "Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?"

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    14Hezekiah received the letters from the messengers, read them, and went up to the house of the LORD. There he spread them out before the LORD.

    15And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying:

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    8Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good," for he thought, "There will be peace and security in my days."

  • 2 Kgs 8:8
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    8The king said to Hazael, "Take a gift in your hand, go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"

  • 2 Chr 29:20
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    20Early in the morning, King Hezekiah gathered the city officials and went up to the house of the LORD.

  • Isa 37:21
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    21Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah, saying, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,

  • Isa 37:5
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    5So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah.

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    10Elisha said to him, "Go and say to him, 'You will certainly recover,' but the LORD has shown me that he will surely die."

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  • 2 Kgs 19:14
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    14Hezekiah received the letters from the messengers, read them, went up to the Lord's house, and spread them out before the Lord.

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    20Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah, saying, 'This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.'

  • Isa 7:10
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    10Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz,

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    1When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

  • Isa 39:1
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  • Jer 17:14
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    14Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.

  • 2 Chr 32:20
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    20King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed about this and cried out to heaven.

  • 2 Kgs 18:30
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    30Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us: This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’

  • Hos 6:2
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    2After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, so that we may live before Him.