2 Kings 20:2-3

20:2 He turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ¹  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ²  and how I have carried out your will.” ³  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ⁴ 

[20:3]  ¹ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

[20:3]  ² tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

[20:3]  ³ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[20:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”