2 Kings 19-22 - Hezekiah’s Prayer

Isaiah Tells Hezekiah Not to Be Afraid

2Ki 19:6-7 LSB - [6] And Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your master, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. [7] "Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a report and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land."'"

Sennacherib Deceives Hezekiah

Hezekiah’s Prayer

2Ki 19:14 LSB - [14] Then Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of Yahweh and spread it out before Yahweh.

Isaiah Speaks of Sennacherib’s Fall

2Ki 19:20 LSB - [20] Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent [word] to Hezekiah saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard [you].'

2Ki 19:27 LSB - [27] 'But I know your sitting down, And your going out and your coming in, And your raging against Me.

2Ki 19:35 LSB - [35] Now it happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And the men arose early in the morning, and behold, all of them were dead bodies.

Hezekiah’s Illness and Restoration

2Ki 20:2-3 LSB - [2] Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, saying, [3] "Remember now, O Yahweh, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept greatly.

2Ki 20:11 LSB - [11] Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh, and He turned the shadow on the stairway back ten steps by which it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.

Hezekiah Shows Babylon His Treasures

2Ki 20:19 LSB - [19] Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of Yahweh which you have spoken is good." For he said, "Will it not be [good], if there will be peace and truth in my days?"

Manasseh Reigns over Judah

2Ki 21:9 LSB - [9] But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray in order to do more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the sons of Israel.

Yahweh Brings Calamity on Israel

2Ki 21:14 LSB - [14] 'And I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies;

Amon Reigns over Judah

Josiah Reigns over Judah

2Ki 22:1-2 LSB - [1] Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. [2] And he did what was right in the sight of Yahweh and walked in all the way of his father David and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

Hilkiah Finds the Book of the Law

2Ki 22:13 LSB - [13] "Go, inquire of Yahweh for me and the people and all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found, for great is the wrath of Yahweh which is set aflame against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us."

Huldah Says Yahweh Is Bringing Evil

2Ki 22:19 LSB - [19] because your heart was soft and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants that they should become an object of horror, and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you," declares Yahweh.