Text -- Isaiah 39:4-8 (NET)

39:4 Isaiah asked, “What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah replied, “They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything in my treasuries.” 39:5 Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Listen to the word of the Lord who commands armies: 39:6 ‘Look, a time is coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord. 39:7 ‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’” 39:8 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The Lord’s word which you have announced is appropriate.” Then he thought, “For there will be peace and stability during my lifetime.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 39:4

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Isaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

NET Notes: Isa 39:6

¹ tn Heb “fathers” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV).

NET Notes: Isa 39:7

¹ tn Heb “Some of your sons, who go out from you, whom you father.”

NET Notes: Isa 39:8

¹ tn Heb “good” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “favorable.”

² tn Heb “and he said.” The verb אָמַר (’amar, “say”) is sometimes used of what one thinks (that is, says to oneself).

³ tn Or “surely”; cf. CEV “At least.”