1 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was near 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 will die; you will not live.” 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying, 3 “Please, LORD, remember how I have walked before you faithfully and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

4 Before Isaiah had left the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 5 “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler 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. Look, I will heal you. On the third day you will go up to the house of the LORD. 6 I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.” 7 Isaiah said, “Take a cake of pressed figs.” They took it and laid it on 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 house of the LORD on the third day?” 9 Isaiah said, “This will be the sign for you from the LORD that the LORD will do what he has said: Shall the shadow advance ten steps or go back ten steps?” 10 Hezekiah said, “It is easy for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, let the shadow go backward ten steps.” 11 Then Isaiah the prophet called to the LORD, and he made the shadow go backward ten steps on the steps of Ahaz, where it had gone down.

12 At that time Berodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. 13 Hezekiah listened to them and showed them his entire treasury: the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine oil, his armory, and everything found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them. 14 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say, and where did they come from?” Hezekiah said, “They came from a distant land, from Babylon.” 15 He asked, “What did they see in your house?” Hezekiah said, “They saw everything in my house. There was nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.” 16 Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD: 17 The days are coming when everything in your house, and everything your ancestors have stored up to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD. 18 Some of your sons who will come from you, whom you will father, will be taken away and will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” 19 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD you have spoken is good.” Then he said, “Is it not good if there is peace and security in my days?” 20 As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, all his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 21 Hezekiah rested with his ancestors, and his son Manasseh reigned in his place.