2 Kings 20:4-7

20:4 Isaiah was still in the middle courtyard when the Lord told him, ¹  20:5 “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. The day after tomorrow ²  you will go up to the Lord’s temple. 20:6 I will add fifteen years to your life and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.”’” ³  20:7 Isaiah ordered, “Get a fig cake.” So they did as he ordered ⁴  and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered. ⁵ 

[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.”

[20:5]  ² tn Heb “on the third day.”

[20:6]  ³ tn Heb “for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.”

[20:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they got [a fig cake].”

[20:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he lived.”