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Day 200 and 39
about that time, Hezekiah became deathly ill, and the prophet Isaiah,
son of AMAs went to visit him.
He gave the king this message.
This is what the Lord says.
Set your affairs in order for you are going to die.
You will not recover from this illness.
When Hezekiah heard this, he turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord.
Remember, oh Lord, how I have always been faithful to you and
have served you single-mindedly, always doing what pleases you.
Then he broke down and wept bitterly.
But before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, this message
came to him from the Lord.
Go back to Hezekiah, the leader of my people.
Tell him This is what the Lord the God of your ancestor David says.
I have heard your prayer and seen your tears.
I will heal you and three days from now you will get out of bed
and go to the temple of the Lord.
I will add 15 years to your life and I will rescue you and this
city from the king of Assyria.
I will defend this city for my own honor and for the sake of my servant David.
Then Isaiah said, make an ointment from figs.
So Hezekiah's servants spread the ointment over the boil.
And Hezekiah recovered.
Meanwhile, Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, what sign will the Lord give
to prove that he will heal me and that I will go to the temple of the Lord?
Three days from now?
Isaiah replied, this is the sign from the Lord to prove
that he will do as he promised.
Would you like the shadow on the sundial to go forward 10 steps or backward?
10 steps.
The shadow always moves forward.
Hezekiah replied, so that would be easy.
Make it go 10 steps backward instead.
So Isaiah the prophet, asked the Lord to do this, and he caused the shadow to move
10 steps backward on the sundial of aas.
Soon after this Medak ballad, son of Maladin, king of Babylon, sent Hezekiah
his best wishes and a gift for, he had heard that Hezekiah had been very sick.
Hezekiah received the Babylonian envoys and showed them everything in his
treasure houses, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the aromatic oils.
He also took them to see his armory and showed them everything
in his royal treasuries.
There was nothing in his palace or kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.
Then Isaiah the prophet, went to King Hezekiah and asked
him, what did those men want?
Where were they from?
Hezekiah replied, they came from the distant land of Babylon.
What did they see in your palace?
Isaiah asked.
They saw everything.
Hezekiah replied.
I showed them everything I own, all my royal treasuries.
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, listen to this message from the Lord.
The time is coming when everything in your palace, all the treasures
stored up by your ancestors until now will be carried off to Babylon.
Nothing will be left, says the Lord.
Some of your very own sons will be taken away into exile.
They will become eunuchs who will serve in the palace of Babylon's King.
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, this message you have given me from
the Lord is good for the king was thinking at least there will be peace
and security during my lifetime.
The rest of the events in Hezekiah's Reign, including the extent of his
power and how he built a pool and dug a tunnel to bring water into
the city are recorded in the book of the history of the Kings of Judah.
Hezekiah died and his son Manasses, became the next king.
Manasses was 12 years old when he became King, and he
reigned in Jerusalem 55 years.
His mother was hesbah.
He did what was evil in the Lord's sight following the detestable practices of the
pagan nations that the Lord had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites.
He rebuilt the pagan shrines his father Hezekiah had destroyed.
He constructed altars for Baal and set up an Ashra poll just
as King Ahab of Israel had done.
He also bowed before all the powers of the heavens and worshiped them.
He built pagan altars in the temple of the Lord.
The place where the Lord had said My name will remain in Jerusalem forever.
He built these altars for all the powers of the heavens in both
courtyards of the Lord's temple.
Manasses also sacrificed his own son in the fire.
He practiced sorcery and divination, and he consulted with mediums and psychics.
He did much that was evil in the Lord's sight.
Arousing his anger.
Vanessa even made a carved image of a Shira and set it up in the temple,
the very place where the Lord had told David and his son Solomon.
My name will be honored forever in this temple and in Jerusalem,
the city I have chosen from among all the tribes of Israel.
If the Israelites will be careful to obey my commands, all the
laws my servant Moses gave them.
I will not send them into exile from this land that I gave their ancestors, but the
people refused to listen and Manasa led them to do even more evil than the pagan
nations that the Lord had destroyed when the people of Israel entered the land.
Then the Lord said through his servants, the prophets, King Manasses of Judah
has done many detestable things.
He is even more wicked than the Amorites who lived in this land before Israel.
He has caused the people of Judah to sin with his idols.
So this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says.
I will bring such disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of those who
hear about it will tingle with horror.
I will judge Jerusalem by the same standard I used for Samaria and the same
measure I used for the family of Ahab.
I will wipe away the people of Jerusalem as one wipes a
dish and turns it upside down.
Then I will reject even the remnant of my own people who are left and I will
hand them over as plunder for their enemies for they have done great evil
in my sight and have angered me ever since their ancestors came out of Egypt.
Manasa also murdered many innocent people until Jerusalem was filled from one
end to the other with innocent blood.
This was in addition to the sin that he caused the people of
Judah to commit, leading them to do evil in the Lord's sight.
The rest of the events in Manasses Reign and everything he did, including the sins
he committed, are recorded in the book of the history of the Kings of Judah.
When Manasses died, he was buried in the Palace Garden, the garden of Za.
Then his son, Amon, became the next king.
Amon was 22 years old when he became King, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years.
His mother was Miss Shomi, the daughter of, he's from Japa.
He did what was evil in the Lord's sight just as his father Manasa had done.
He followed the example of his father worshiping the same
idols his father had worshiped.
He abandoned the Lord, the God of his ancestors, and he refused
to follow the Lord's ways.
Then Amman's own officials conspired against him and assassinated him
in his palace, but the people of the land killed all those who had
conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah, the next king.
The rest of the events in Amman's Reign and what he did are recorded in the book
of the history of the Kings of Judah.
He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Aza.
Then his son Josiah, became the next king.
This concludes today's immerse reading experience.
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