2 Kings 20: Hezekiah’s Sickness and Healing – Clear & Engaging Audio Bible Reading | The King’s Prayer, God’s Promise, and Isaiah’s Miraculous Sign

Experience the powerful events of 2 Kings 20 with this clear and engaging audio recording. Follow the story of King Hezekiah’s sickness and his prayer to God for healing, God’s promise to extend his life, and the miraculous sign given to Isaiah. Perfect for study, reflection, or meditation, immerse yourself in this inspiring chapter and let the Scriptures come alive.

2 KINGS 20 (NIV)

1 In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The
prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says:
Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”

2 Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,

3 “Remember,
Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion
and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

4 Before Isaiah had left the middle court, the word of the Lord came to him:

5
“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord,
the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your
tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple
of the Lord.

6 I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver 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.’”

7 Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” They did so and applied it
to the boil, and he recovered.

8 Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the Lord will heal me
and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord on the third day from now?”

9 Isaiah answered, “This is the Lord’s sign to you that the Lord will do what
he has promised: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back
ten steps?”

10 “It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps,” said
Hezekiah. “Rather, have it go back ten steps.”

11 Then the prophet Isaiah called on the Lord, and the Lord made the shadow go
back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.

12 At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah
letters and a gift, because he had heard of Hezekiah’s illness.

13 Hezekiah
received the envoys and showed them all that was in his storehouses—the
silver, the gold, the spices and the fine olive oil—his armory and everything
found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his
kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.

14 Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, “What did those
men say, and where did they come from?”
“From a distant land,” Hezekiah replied. “They came from Babylon.”

15 The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?”
“They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah said. “There is nothing among my
treasures that I did not show them.”

16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord:

17 The time will
surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors
have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be
left, says the Lord.

18 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood
who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in
the palace of the king of Babylon.”

19 “The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he
thought, “Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?”

20 As for the other events of Hezekiah’s reign, all his achievements and how
he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city, are
they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

21 Hezekiah
rested with his ancestors. And Manasseh his son succeeded him as king.