2 Kings 20:5 Cross References - NSB

⁵ »Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: ‘This is what Jehovah God of your ancestor David says: »I heard your prayer. I saw your tears. Now I will heal you. The day after tomorrow you will go to Jehovah’s Temple.

²⁶ He said: »If you will listen carefully to Jehovah your God and do what he considers right, if you pay attention to his commands and obey all his laws, I will never make you suffer any of the diseases I made the Egyptians suffer. I am Jehovah, who heals you.«

³⁹ »See now that I, even I, am he. There is no god besides me! It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heals. There is no one who can deliver from my hand.

¹⁴ He said: »No, but as captain of the camp of Jehovah I now come.« And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down and said: »What does my lord say to his servant?« ¹⁵ The captain (commander) of Jehovah’s host (army) said to Joshua: »Take your shoes from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy.« And at once Joshua did so.

¹⁶ »This time tomorrow I will send you a man from the territory of Benjamin. Anoint him to be ruler of my people Israel. He will save my people from the Philistines. I have seen my people suffering and their cry has reached me.«

¹ Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it on Saul’s head. He kissed him and said: »Jehovah has anointed you to be ruler of his people Israel. You will rule his people. You will save them from all their enemies. This will be the sign that Jehovah has anointed you to be ruler of his people.

² »For a long time when Saul was still our king, you led the people of Israel in battle. Jehovah promised you that you would lead his people and be their ruler.«

³ Nathan answered: »Do what you have in mind. Jehovah is with you.« ⁴ That night Jehovah said to Nathan, ⁵ »Go tell my servant David that I say to him: ‘You are not the one to build a temple for me to live in.

²⁰ Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: »This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says: ‘You prayed to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria. I have heard you.

⁷ Then Isaiah said: »Get a fig cake, and put it on the boil so that the king will get well.« ⁸ King Hezekiah said to Isaiah: »What is the sign to prove that Jehovah will heal me and that three days later I will be able to go to the Temple?«

² Nathan replied to David: »Do what you have in mind, for God is with you.« ³ That night God spoke to Nathan. He said: ⁴ »Go tell my servant David, This is what Jehovah says: ‘You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.

¹² »God is with us as our leader. His priests will sound their trumpets to call the army to fight you. Men of Israel do not wage war against Jehovah the God of your ancestors. You will not succeed.«

³ It was the eighth year of his reign. He was still a boy when he dedicated his life to service of the God of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year as king he purged Judah and Jerusalem by destroying the illegal places of worship, poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, carved idols, and metal idols.

¹⁹ »On the other hand a man may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in his bones. ²⁰ »His very being finds food repulsive and he loathes the choicest meal. ²¹ »His flesh wastes away to nothing, and his bones, once hidden, now stick out. ²² »He draws near to the pit and to the messengers of death. ²³ »Yet if there is an angel on his side as a mediator, one out of a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him, ²⁴ to be gracious to him and say: ‘Spare him from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom for him!’ ²⁵ »His flesh is renewed like a child’s. It is restored as in the days of his youth. ²⁶ »He prays to God and finds favor with him. He sees God’s face and shouts for joy! God restores him to his righteous state.

⁸ You have kept account of my wandering. Put my tears in your skin bottle. Are they not in your book?

¹³ I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will keep my vows to you, ¹⁴ the vows made by my lips and spoken by my own mouth when I was in trouble. ¹⁵ I will offer you a sacrifice of fattened livestock for burnt offerings with the smoke from rams. I will offer cattle and goats.

¹⁹ But God has heard me. He paid attention to my prayer. ²⁰ Thanks be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or taken away his loving kindness from me.

¹² »Hear my prayer, O Jehovah. Open your ear (listen) to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my fathers.

² All men will come to you O Hearer of prayer.

¹⁷ I will not die; instead, I will live and proclaim the works of Jehovah. ¹⁸ Jehovah has punished me severely, but he has not let me die. ¹⁹ Open the temple gate of righteousness to me and I will go in and give thanks to Jehovah!

¹² How can I repay Jehovah for all the good that he has done for me? ¹³ I will take the cup of salvation and call on the name of Jehovah. ¹⁴ I will keep my vows to Jehovah in the presence of all his people.

⁵ Those who cry while they plant will joyfully sing while they harvest.

³ He is the healer of the brokenhearted. He is the one who bandages their wounds.

⁵ to go back to Hezekiah and say to him: »I Jehovah, the God of your ancestor David, have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will add fifteen more years to your life.

²² Hezekiah said: »What will be the sign that I will go up to the Temple of Jehovah?«

³ Give ear and come to me; listen to me, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.

³² »God said: ‘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!«

¹³ »Have no fear Zechariah,« said the angel, »for God has heard your prayer. Your wife Elisabeth will have a son and his name will be John.

¹⁴ Later Jesus found him in the temple and told him: »Now that you are healed do not sin anymore and avoid worse things happening to you.«

¹⁰ It was appropriate that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, should bring many sons to glory, to make the Chief Agent of their salvation perfect through suffering.

¹⁴ Is any among you sick? Let him call the elders of the congregation. Let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of God. ¹⁵ The prayer of faith will save the sick person. God will raise him up; and if he committed sins, it will be forgiven him.

¹⁷ »The Lamb who is in the middle of the throne will feed them and lead them to living fountains of water. God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.«