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Hezekiah was delighted with them, and showed them everything in[a] his treasure-houses[b]—the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oils, his entire armory, and everything found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom[c] that Hezekiah did not show them.

Isaiah Rebukes Hezekiah

Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men have to say? And from where did they come to you?”

Hezekiah replied, “From a distant land—they came to me from Babylon.”

“What did they see in your palace?” he asked.

“They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah replied. “There is nothing in my treasuries that I did not show them.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 39:2 So 1QIsaa MTmss; the Heb. lacks in
  2. Isaiah 39:2 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read treasure-house; MTqere reads his treasure-house
  3. Isaiah 39:2 So 1QIsaa; MT reads realm; LXX lacks kingdom