Isaiah  2 Chronicles

Isaiah chapter 38 and the book of 2 Chronicles.

¹In those days Hezekiah became deathly sick. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amos came to him and said to him, Thus says the Master, Set your house in order, for you will die and not live. Isaiah 38:1²Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and prayed to the Master saying, ³Remember Master, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart and have done what is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept bitterly. Isaiah 38:2-3⁴The word of the Master came to Isaiah saying, ⁵Go and say to Hezekiah king of Judah, Thus says the Master, the God of your father David, I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. I will add 15 years to your days. ⁶I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria and I will defend this city. Isaiah 38:4-6⁷This will be a sign to you from the Master that the Master will do this thing that he has spoken. ⁸I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down on the sundial of Ahaz your father, 10 degrees backward, so the shadow of the sun returned the 10 degrees by which it had gone down. Isaiah 38:7-8⁹The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he had been sick and was recovered of his sickness: ^10.1I said, In the middle of my days I will die, ^10.2at the gates of the grave ^10.3I am deprived of the rest of my years. ^11.1I said, I will not see the Master ^11.2in the land of the living, ^11.3I will not see man ^11.4among the inhabitants of the world any longer. ^12.1My age is departed and removed from me ^12.2as a shepherd's tent, ^12.3my life has shrunk like a shoelace and as a weaver's web ^12.4which is nearly ready to be cut off, ^12.5from morning even to night you have delivered me to my fate. ^13.1I waited patiently till dawn, ^13.2but like a lion he broke all my bones, ^13.3day and night you made an end of me. ^14.1Like a swallow twittering, so I chattered, ^14.2I mourned like a dove, ^14.3I have lifted my eyes on high, ^14.4Master, deliver me and comfort me. Isaiah 38:9-14^15.1What will I say, ^15.2he has both spoken to me and he has done it, ^15.3and has caused my sleep to flee ^15.4because of the bitterness of my soul. ^16.1When the Master is against men will they live? ^16.2Because of the life of my spirit heal me and make me to live. ^17.1It was for peace ^17.2that I had great bitterness, ^17.3but you have been pleased with my soul, ^17.4that it may not waste in corruption, ^17.5for you have cast all my sins ^17.6behind your back, ^18.1for the grave cannot thank you, ^18.2death cannot praise you, ^18.3those who go down into the pit ^18.4cannot hope for your truth, ^19.1but the living will give thanks to you, ^19.2as I do this day, ^19.3the father to the sons ^19.4will make known your truth. Isaiah 38:15-19^20.1The Master will save us, ^20.2therefore we will sing his songs ^20.3all the days of our life ^20.4in the house of the Master. Isaiah 38:20²¹Isaiah said, Let them take a lump of figs and lay it as a plaster on the boil, and he will recover, Isaiah 38:21²²because Hezekiah had said, What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the Master? Isaiah 38:22

(Isaiah 38 BRB)

Hezekiah's Illness

²⁴In those days Hezekiah was sick to death and he prayed before the Master and said, You have performed mighty miracles for me and you have rewarded me according to the works of my hands. ²⁵The sickness of Hezekiah was due to the pride of his heart, therefore the wrath of the Master came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem. ²⁶But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Master did not come on them in the days of Hezekiah. 2 Chronicles 32:24-26

(2 Chronicles 32:24-26 BRB)

Fall of Jerusalem

¹⁵The Master, the God of their fathers, sent to them by the hand of his kings early and late, because he had compassion on his people and on the flock that he had chosen. ¹⁶They laughed at the kings of the Master and despised their words and mocked his prophets until the wrath of the Master arose against his people, until there was no remedy. ¹⁷Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their holy place and who had no compassion on young men nor virgins nor on the old men nor on babies. He delivered them all into his hand. ¹⁸All the vessels of the house of the Master, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Master and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babel. ¹⁹They burned the house of the Master and broke down the walls of Jerusalem and burned all its houses with fire and destroyed all its costly vessels. 2 Chronicles 36:15-19

(2 Chronicles 36:15-19 BRB)

Remnant

²⁰Those who had escaped from the sword he carried away captive to Babel where they became servants to him and to his sons until the Master delivered the kingdom to the Persians ²¹to fulfill the word of the Master by the mouth of Jeremiah the prophet, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths all the days that it lay desolate until the 70 years were completed. 2 Chronicles 36:20-21

(2 Chronicles 36:20-21 BRB)

Temple

²²In the 1st year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Master spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah the prophet might be fulfilled, the Master stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing, saying: 2 Chronicles 36:22^23.1Cyrus, king of Persia, says, 2 Chronicles 36:23^23.2All the kingdoms of the land the Master, the God of the skies, has given me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people with whom the Master his God is pleased? Let him go up, and let him come to me. 2 Chronicles 36:23.2-23

(2 Chronicles 36:22-23 BRB)

Ryan Eaton 2008-09-14 2013-07-09