2 Kings 20:19

2 Kings 20:19

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.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken—indicating a humble and pious resignation to the divine will. The concluding part of his reply was uttered after a pause and was probably an ejaculation to himself, expressing his thankfulness, that, though great afflictions should befall his descendants, the execution of the divine judgment was to be suspended during his own lifetime.

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Berodach-baladan— (Isaiah 39:1), the first king of Babylon mentioned in sacred history; formerly its rulers were viceroys of the Assyrian monarchs. This individual threw off the yoke, and asserting his independence, made with varying success, a long and obstinate resistance [RAWLINSON, Outlines]. The message of congratulation to Hezekiah, was, in all likelihood, accompanied with proposals for a defensive alliance against their common Assyrian enemy. The king of Judah, flattered with this honor, showed the ambassadors all his treasures, his armory and warlike stores; and his motive for this was evidently that the Babylonian deputies might be the more induced to prize his friendship.

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