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16 Then Isaiah replied to Hezekiah, “Listen to this message from the Lord: 17 ‘Watch out! The days are coming when everything that’s in your house—everything that your ancestors have saved up right to this day—will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ declares the Lord. 18 ‘Some of your descendants—your very own seed, whom you will father—will be carried away to become officials[a] in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

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  1. 2 Kings 20:18 Or court officials; the position may have mandated castration as a condition of service