2 Kings 19:5

19:5 When King Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah,

2 Kings 20:16

20:16 Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Listen to the word of the Lord,

2 Kings 20:4

20:4 Isaiah was still in the middle courtyard when the Lord told him, ¹ 

2 Kings 20:7

20:7 Isaiah ordered, “Get a fig cake.” So they did as he ordered ²  and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered. ³ 

2 Kings 19:2

19:2 He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, ⁴  clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:

2 Kings 20:8

20:8 Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What is the confirming sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the Lord’s temple the day after tomorrow?”

2 Kings 20:11

20:11 Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord ⁵  made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz. ⁶ 

2 Kings 20:19

20:19 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The Lord’s word which you have announced is appropriate.” ⁷  Then he added, ⁸  “At least there will be peace and stability during my lifetime.” ⁹ 

2 Kings 19:6

19:6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 19:20

19:20 Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria. ¹¹ 

2 Kings 20:1

Hezekiah is Healed

20:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. ¹²  The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give your household instructions, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’” ¹³ 

2 Kings 20:9

20:9 Isaiah replied, “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said. Do you want the shadow to move ahead ten steps or to go back ten steps?” ¹⁴ 

2 Kings 20:14

20:14 Isaiah the prophet visited King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say? Where do they come from?” Hezekiah replied, “They come from the distant land of Babylon.”

[20:4]  ¹ tc Heb “and Isaiah had not gone out of the middle courtyard, and the word of the Lord came to him, saying.” Instead of “courtyard” (חָצֵר, khatser), the marginal reading, (Qere), the Hebrew consonantal text (Kethib) has הָעִיר (ha’ir), “the city.”

[20:7]  ¹ tn Heb “and they got [a fig cake].”

[20:7]  ² tn Heb “and he lived.”

[19:2]  ¹ tn Heb “elders of the priests.”

[20:11]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:11]  ² tn Heb “on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.”

[20:19]  ¹ tn Heb “good.”

[20:19]  ² tn Heb “and he said.” Many English versions translate, “for he thought.” The verb אָמַר (’amar), “say,” is sometimes used of what one thinks (that is, says to oneself). Cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT.

[20:19]  ³ tn Heb “Is it not [true] there will be peace and stability in my days?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, there will be peace and stability.”

[19:6]  ¹ tn Heb “by which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me.”

[19:20]  ¹ tn Heb “That which you prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.” The verb “I have heard” does not appear in the parallel passage in Isa 37:21, where אֲשֶׁר (’asher) probably has a causal sense, “because.”

[20:1]  ¹ tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying.”

[20:1]  ² tn Heb “will not live.”

[20:9]  ¹ tn The Hebrew הָלַךְ (halakh, a perfect), “it has moved ahead,” should be emended to הֲיֵלֵךְ (hayelekh, an imperfect with interrogative he [ה] prefixed), “shall it move ahead.”