Isaiah 38:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ King Hezekiah became sick and almost died. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to see him. Isaiah said to him: »Jehovah tells you: ‘You are to put everything in order because you will not recover. Get ready to die.«’

²³ Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed. He saddled his donkey and went back to his hometown. He arranged his affairs in order and he hanged himself. He was buried in the family grave.

¹ Hezekiah became ill and was about to die. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz said to him: »This is what Jehovah says: ‘Give final instructions to your household. You will not recover. You will die.’« ² Hezekiah faced the wall and prayed to Jehovah: ³ »Jehovah, Please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and truth. And consider my whole heart devoted to you. I have done what is good in your eyes.« Hezekiah wept bitterly. ⁴ Isaiah had not gone as far as the middle courtyard when Jehovah spoke to him: ⁵ »Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: ‘This is what Jehovah God of your ancestor David says: »I heard your prayer. I saw your tears. Now I will heal you. The day after tomorrow you will go to Jehovah’s Temple. ⁶ »I will add fifteen more years to your life. I will rescue you and defend this city from the control of the king of Assyria. I do this for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.«’« ⁷ Then Isaiah said: »Get a fig cake, and put it on the boil so that the king will get well.« ⁸ King Hezekiah said to Isaiah: »What is the sign to prove that Jehovah will heal me and that three days later I will be able to go to the Temple?« ⁹ Isaiah replied: »Jehovah will give you a sign to prove that he will keep his promise. Would you prefer to have the shadow on the stairway go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?« ¹⁰ Then Hezekiah said: »It is an easy matter to have the shadow go forward ten steps. So have it go back ten steps.« ¹¹ Isaiah prayed to Jehovah and Jehovah made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairway set up by King Ahaz.

²⁴ Hezekiah became sick and was about to die. He prayed to Jehovah, who answered him and gave him a miraculous sign.

¹⁰ Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you are going.

¹ This is the vision seen by Isaiah the son of Amoz. It is about Judah and Jerusalem at the time of Kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah.

² Hezekiah sent Eliakim the palace administrator along with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.

²¹ Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: »This is what Jehovah, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,

¹ King Hezekiah became sick and almost died. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to see him. Isaiah said to him: »Jehovah tells you: ‘You are to put everything in order because you will not recover. Get ready to die.«’ ² Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Jehovah: ³ »Remember, Jehovah, that I have served you faithfully and loyally. I have always tried to do what you wanted me to.« Then he cried bitterly. ⁴ Then Jehovah commanded Isaiah ⁵ to go back to Hezekiah and say to him: »I Jehovah, the God of your ancestor David, have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will add fifteen more years to your life. ⁶ »I will rescue you and this city of Jerusalem from the king of Assyria, and I will continue to protect the city.« ⁷ Isaiah said:« This is your sign from Jehovah that he will do what he promises. ⁸ »The sun made a shadow that went down the stairway of the upper palace of Ahaz. ‘I am going to make the shadow go back ten steps.’« So the sun on the stairway went back up the ten steps it had gone down.

³ Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked: »What did those men say, and where did they come from?« Hezekiah replied: »They came from the distant land of Babylon.« ⁴ The prophet asked: »What did they see in your palace? »They saw everything in my palace,« Hezekiah said. »There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.«

⁷ »At one time I may threaten to tear up, break down, and destroy a nation or a kingdom. ⁸ »However if the nation that I threatened turns away from doing wrong. Then I will change my plans about the disaster I planned to do to it. ⁹ »At another time I may promise to build and plant a nation or a kingdom. ¹⁰ »If that nation does what I consider evil and does not obey me I will change my mind about the good that I promised to do to it.

⁴ Jonah began to enter into the city, a day's journey walking, and he shouted: »Nineveh will be overthrown in Forty days.«

¹⁰ God saw their works! That they turned from their evil way. God turned back from the deed that he said he would do to them. He did not do it.

¹ A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived at Bethany where his sisters Mary and Martha lived. ² This is the same Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who was sick. ³ The sisters therefore sent for the Lord, They said: »The one for whom you have great affection is sick.« ⁴ When Jesus heard it he said: »This sickness will not end in death. It is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it.« ⁵ Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

³⁷ She was sick, and died. They washed her body and laid her in an upper chamber.

²⁷ Indeed he was sick and near to death. But God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow. ²⁸ I have sent him quickly, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. ²⁹ Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy. Hold such in honor ³⁰ because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.