2 Kings 20:19

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17 ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this day, ^ashall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the Lord.

18 ‘And ^athey shall take away some of your sons who will¹ descend from you, whom you will beget; ^band they shall be ^ceunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”

19 So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, ^a“The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good!” For he said, “Will there not be peace and truth at least in my days?”

Death of Hezekiah

20 ^aNow the rest of the acts of Hezekiah—all his might, and how he ^bmade a ^cpool and a tunnel and ^dbrought water into the city—are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

21 So ^aHezekiah rested with his fathers. Then Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

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2 Kings 20:19

Good is the word ... - The language is, according to some, that of a true spirit of resignation and humility; according to others, that of a feeling of relief and satisfaction that the evil was not to come in his day. Such a feeling would be but natural, and though not according to the standard of Christian perfectness, would imply no very great defect of character in one who lived under the old Dispensation.

Peace and truth - Rather, "peace and continuance." The evils threatened were war and the dissolution of the kingdom.

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