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Isaiah 39:6-8
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6 The time is coming when all that is in your house, everything that your ancestors have stored up until this day, shall be carried off to Babylon;[a] nothing shall be left, says the Lord.(A) 7 Some of your own descendants, your progeny, shall be taken and made attendants in the palace of the king of Babylon.”(B) 8 Hezekiah replied to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good.”[b] For he thought, “There will be peace and stability in my lifetime.”

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  1. 39:6 Because Judah preferred to follow a pro-Babylonian policy, instead of trusting in the Lord, it would later be exiled to Babylon.
  2. 39:8 Hezekiah was relieved that the disaster would not occur in his lifetime.
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