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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) Some of your own descendants, your progeny, shall be taken and made attendants in the palace of the king of Babylon.”(B) 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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Footnotes

  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.

The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon.(A) Nothing will be left, says the Lord. And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.(B)

“The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,(C)” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “There will be peace and security in my lifetime.(D)

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