2 Kings 20:1 Cross References - ISV

¹ Hezekiah’s Sickness and Recovery
During this time, Hezekiah became sick with a fatal illness, so Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, approached him and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your household in order, because you are dying. You will not survive.’”

²³ Ahithophel’s SuicideMeanwhile, when Ahithophel observed that his counsel was not being acted upon, he saddled his donkey, got up, and left for his hometown. Leaving behind a set of orders for his household, he hanged himself. After his death he was buried in his father’s tomb.

² and sent Eliakim the household supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests—all of them covered in sackcloth—to Amoz’s son, the prophet Isaiah.

²⁰ God’s Answer through Isaiah the ProphetThen Amoz’s son Isaiah sent word to Hezekiah, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘Because you have prayed to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria, I have listened.’”

²⁴ Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery
During this time Hezekiah became critically ill, and he prayed to the LORD. The LORD spoke to him and gave him a sign. ²⁵ But Hezekiah’s response wasn’t commensurate with what had been done for him because he was arrogant in heart, so wrath came upon him, upon Judah, and upon Jerusalem. ²⁶ But Hezekiah humbled himself while he was arrogant in heart, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem joined him in this. As a result, the LORD’s wrath did not come upon them during Hezekiah’s lifetime.

¹ Hezekiah’s Illness and RecoveryDuring that time, Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. Then Amoz’s son Isaiah the prophet came to him and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, because you are going to die. You won’t recover.’”
² Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD. ³ “Please, LORD,” he said, “Remember how I have walked before you faithfully and with a true heart, and I have done what pleases you.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
⁴ Then this message from the LORD came to Isaiah: ⁵ “Go tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David has to say: “I’ve heard your prayer and I’ve seen your tears; so I will add fifteen years to your life. ⁶ I’ll save you and this city from the king of Assyria, and I’ll defend this city, for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake. ⁷ This is the LORD’s sign to you that the LORD will carry out this thing he has promised: ⁸ Watch! I will make the shadow on the steps of the upper dial of Ahaz that marks the sun go ten steps backwards.”’”
Then the sunlight turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had gone down.
⁹ Hezekiah’s Prayer A composition by King Hezekiah of Judah, following his illness and recovery: ¹⁰ I said, “Must I leave in the prime of my life? Must I be consigned to the control of Sheol? Bitter are my years!” ¹¹ I said, “I won’t see the LORD in the land of the living; and I’ll no longer observe human beings among the denizens of the grave. ¹² My house has been plucked up and vanishes from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver, I’ve taken account of my life, and he cuts me off from the loom— day and night you make an end of me. ¹³ I’ve been swept bare until morning; just like a lion, he breaks all my bones— day and night you make an end of me. ¹⁴ Like a swallow or a crane I chirp, I moan like a dove. My eyes look weakly upward. O Lord, I am oppressed, so stand up for me! ¹⁵ What can I say, so I tell myself, since he has done this to me? I will walk slowly all my years because of my soul’s anguish. ¹⁶ “My Lord is against them, yet they live, and among all of them who live is his spirit. Now you have restored me to health, so let me live! ¹⁷ Yes, it was for my own good that I suffered extreme anguish. But in love you have held back my life from the Pit in which it has been confined; you have tossed all my sins behind your back. ¹⁸ For Sheol cannot thank you, death cannot sing your praise; and those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. ¹⁹ The living—yes the living—they thank you, just as I am doing today; fathers will tell their children about your faithfulness. ²⁰ The LORD will save me, and we will play my music on strings all the days of our lives in the LORD’s Temple.
²¹ Now Isaiah had said, “Let them prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover.”
²² Hezekiah also had asked, “What will be the sign for me to go up to the LORD’s Temple?”

⁷ At one moment I may speak about a nation or a kingdom to uproot it, pull it down, or destroy it. ⁸ But if that nation about which I spoke turns from its evil way, I’ll change my mind about the disaster that I had planned for it. ⁹ At another moment I may speak about a nation or kingdom to build it or plant it. ¹⁰ But if that nation does evil in my eyes by not obeying me, I’ll change my mind about the good that I said I would bring on it.

⁴ As Jonah started into the city on the first day’s journey, he proclaimed the message, “40 days more and Nineveh will be overthrown!”
⁵ The City of Nineveh RepentsThe people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least important. ⁶ When the message reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, removed his royal garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down in ashes. ⁷ Then he had this proclamation published throughout Nineveh: “By decree of the king and his nobles: No man or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything, graze, or drink water. ⁸ Instead, let both man and animal clothe themselves with sackcloth and cry out to God forcefully. Let every person turn from his evil ways and from his tendency to do violence. ⁹ Who knows but that God may relent, have compassion, and turn from his fierce anger, so that we are not exterminated?”
¹⁰ God took note of what they did—that they turned from their evil ways. Because God relented concerning the trouble about which he had warned them, he did not carry it out.

¹ The Death of LazarusNow a certain man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ² Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was ill. ³ So the sisters sent word to Jesus and told him, “Lord, the one whom you love is ill.”
⁴ But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness isn’t meant to end in death. It’s for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” ⁵ Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

²⁷ Indeed, he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have one sorrow on top of another.

³⁰ because he came close to death for the work of the Messiah by risking his life to complete what remained unfinished in your service to me.