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2 Kings 20 📜 📕 ↷
Hezekiah's Illness and Recovery
1 IN those days Ezechias was sick even to death: & Isaie the son of Amos the prophet came and said to him: Thus saith our Lord God: Take order with thy house, for thou shalt die, and shalt not live.📜💬📚
2 Who turned his face to the wall, and prayed our Lord, saying:📜💬📚
3 I beseech thee Lord, remember I pray thee how I have walked before thee in truth, and in a perfect heart, and have done that which is liked before thee. Ezechias therefore wept with great weeping.📜💬📚
4 And before Isaie was gone out of the midst of the court, the word of our Lord came to him, saying:📜💬📚
5 Return, and tell Ezechias the Prince of my people: Thus saith our Lord the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and seen thy tears: and behold I have healed thee, the third day thou shalt go up to the temple of the Lord.📜💬📚
6 And I will add to thy days fifteen years: yea & out of the hand of the king of Assyrians I will deliver thee, and this city, and I will protect this city for my sake, and for David my servant.📜💬📚
7 And Isaie said: Fetch me a bunch of figs. Which when they had brought, and had laid it upon his sore, he was cured.📜💬📚
8 And Ezechias had said to Isaie: What sign shall there be, that our Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up the third day to the temple of our Lord?📜💬📚
9 To whom Isaie said: This shall be the sign from our Lord, that our Lord will do the word, which he hath spoken: Wilt thou that the shadow go forward ten times, or that it go back so many degrees.📜💬📚
10 And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for the shadow to go forward ten times, neither will I that this be done, but that it return back ten degrees.📜💬📚
11 Isaie therefore the Prophet invocated our Lord, & brought back the shadow by the lines, by the which it was now gone down in the dial of Achaz, backward ten degrees.📜💬📚
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