Hizkijas slimība
(2L 32:24–26Jes 38:1–8)1 Tajās dienās Hizkija saslima uz miršanu. Pie viņa atnāca pravietis Jesaja, Āmoca dēls, un sacīja: “Tā saka Kungs: nokārto sava nama lietas, jo tu mirsi un vairs neatveseļosies.” 2 Hizkija pagriezās pret sienu un lūdza Kungu: 3 “Ak, Kungs, atceries taču, ka es staigāju tavā priekšā patiesībā un no visas sirds un ka es darīju labu!” – un Hizkija gauži raudāja.
4 Bet Jesaja vēl nebija aizgājis līdz pilsētas vidum, kad Kunga vārds nāca pār viņu: 5 “Griezies atpakaļ un saki manas tautas valdniekam Hizkijam: tā saka Kungs, tava tēva Dāvida Dievs: es dzirdēju tavu lūgšanu un redzēju tavas asaras, redzi – es tevi dziedināšu! Trešajā dienā tu dosies uz Kunga namu! 6 Tavai dzīvei es pielikšu vēl piecpadsmit gadus. Es atbrīvošu šo pilsētu un tevi no Asīrijas ķēniņa rokas, es pasargāšu šo pilsētu manis un mana kalpa Dāvida dēļ!” 7 Jesaja teica: “Ņemiet saspiestas vīģes.” Tie ņēma un lika uz augoņa, un viņš kļuva vesels. 8 Un Hizkija teica Jesajam: “Kāda būs zīme, ka Kungs mani dziedina un ka es trešajā dienā varēšu doties uz Kunga namu?” 9 Jesaja atbildēja: “Zīme no Kunga, ka Kungs darīs to, ko teicis, būs šāda – ēna ies desmit iedaļas uz priekšu vai desmit iedaļas atpakaļ.” 10 Hizkija teica: “Kas ēnai ko nepavirzīties desmit iedaļas uz priekšu!? Nu nē – lai ēna virzās desmit iedaļas atpakaļ!” 11 Pravietis Jesaja sauca uz Kungu, un viņš lika ēnai virzīties pa Āhāza saules pulksteņa iedaļām desmit iedaļas atpakaļ.
Sūtņi no Bābeles
(Jes 39:1–8)12 Tolaik Bābeles ķēniņš Brodah-Baladāns, Baladāna dēls, sūtīja vēstuli un dāvanu Hizkijam, jo bija uzzinājis, ka Hizkija ir saslimis. 13 Hizkija uzklausīja vēstnešus un izrādīja tiem savu dārgumu krātuvi – sudrabu, zeltu, balzamus, dārgo eļļu, ieroču namu un visu, kas bija atrodams mantnīcās. Hizkijas namā un visā viņa valstī nebija nekā, ko viņš tiem nebūtu parādījis. 14 Tad pravietis Jesaja nāca pie Hizkijas un teica: “Ko šie vīri sacīja, un no kurienes tie pie tevis bija atnākuši?” Hizkija atbildēja: “Tie atnākuši no tālas zemes, no Bābeles!” 15 Viņš jautāja: “Ko tie redzēja tavā namā?” Hizkija teica: “Viņi redzēja visu, kas ir manā namā – manās mantnīcās nebija nekā, ko es tiem nebūtu rādījis.” 16 Jesaja teica Hizkijam: “Klausies Kunga vārdu: 17 redzi, nāks diena, kad visu, kas ir tavā namā un ko tavi tēvi krājuši līdz šai dienai, aizvedīs uz Bābeli – nepaliks nekā! – saka Kungs. 18 Daži tavi dēli, kas no tevis cēlušies, kurus tu dzemdināji, tiks paņemti uz Bābeles ķēniņa pili par einuhiem!” 19 Hizkija sacīja Jesajam: “Labs ir Kunga vārds, kuru tu pavēstīji.” Un tas nodomāja: “Kāpēc ne? Kaut tik manā laikā būtu miers un drošība.”
Hizkijas nāve
(2L 32:32–33)20 Pārējie Hizkijas darbi un visa viņa varenība, un tas, kā viņš taisīja ūdenskrātuvi un ūdensvadu un kā viņš ūdeni novadīja uz pilsētu, – vai tad par to nav rakstīts Jūdas ķēniņu Laiku grāmatā? 21 Un Hizkija apgūlās pie tēviem. Pēc tam sāka valdīt viņa dēls Manase.
King Hezekiah's Illness and Recovery
(Isaiah 38.1-8Isaiah 21Isaiah 222 Chronicles 32.24-26)1 About this time King Hezekiah became sick and almost died. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to see him and said to him, “The Lord tells you that you are to put everything in order, because you will not recover. Get ready to die.”
2 Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed: 3 “Remember, Lord, that I have served you faithfully and loyally and that I have always tried to do what you wanted me to.” And he began to cry bitterly.
4 Isaiah left the king, but before he had passed through the central courtyard of the palace the Lord told him 5 to go back to Hezekiah, ruler of the Lord's people, and say to him, “I, the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will heal you, and in three days you will go to the Temple. 6 I will let you live fifteen years longer. I will rescue you and this city Jerusalem from the emperor of Assyria. I will defend this city, for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David.”
7 Then Isaiah told the king's attendants to put on his boil a paste made of figs, and he would get well. 8 King Hezekiah asked, “What is the sign to prove that the Lord will heal me and that three days later I will be able to go to the Temple?”
9 Isaiah replied, “The Lord will give you a sign to prove that he will keep his promise. Now, would you prefer to have the shadow on the stairway go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?”
10 Hezekiah answered, “It's easy to have the shadow go forward ten steps! Have it go back ten steps.”
11 Isaiah prayed to the Lord, and the Lord made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairway set up by King Ahaz.
Messengers from Babylonia
(Isaiah 39.1-8)12 About that same time the king of Babylonia, Merodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, heard that King Hezekiah had been sick, so he sent him a letter and a present. 13 Hezekiah welcomed the messengers and showed them his wealth—his silver and gold, his spices and perfumes, and all his military equipment. There was nothing in his storerooms or anywhere in his kingdom that he did not show them. 14 Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did these men come from and what did they say to you?”
Hezekiah answered, “They came from a very distant country, from Babylonia.”
15 “What did they see in the palace?”
“They saw everything. There is nothing in the storerooms that I didn't show them.”
16 Isaiah then told the king, “The Lord Almighty says that 17 a time is coming when everything in your palace, everything that your ancestors have stored up to this day, will be carried off to Babylonia. Nothing will be left. 18 Some of your own direct descendants will be taken away and made eunuchs to serve in the palace of the king of Babylonia.”
19 King Hezekiah understood this to mean that there would be peace and security during his lifetime, so he replied, “The message you have given me from the Lord is good.”
The End of Hezekiah's Reign
(2 Chronicles 32.322 33)20 Everything else that King Hezekiah did, his brave deeds, and an account of how he built a reservoir and dug a tunnel to bring water into the city, are all recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah. 21 Hezekiah died, and his son Manasseh succeeded him as king.
