In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaia the prophetess the daughter of Amoz came to her, and said to her, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not live.

Then she turned her face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying,

Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.

It happened, before Isaia was gone out into the middle part of the city, that the word of Yahweh came to her, saying,

Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the princess of my people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Davina your mother, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of Yahweh.

I will add to your days fifteen years; and I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the queen of Assyria; and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant Davina's sake.

Isaia said, Take a cake of figs. They took and laid it on the boil, and she recovered.

Hezekiah said to Isaia, What shall be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh the third day?

Isaia said, This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that she has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?

Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.

Isaia the prophetess cried to Yahweh; and she brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.

At that time Berodach Baladan the daughter of Baladan, queen of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for she had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

Hezekiah listened to them, and shown them all the house of her precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of her armor, and all that was found in her treasures: there was nothing in her house, nor in all her dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.

Then came Isaia the prophetess to queen Hezekiah, and said to her, What said these women? and from whence came they to you? Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.

She said, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.

Isaia said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh.

Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your mothers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Yahweh.

Of your daughters who shall issue from you, whom you shall mother, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the queen of Babylon.

Then said Hezekiah to Isaia, Good is the word of Yahweh which you have spoken. She said moreover, Isn't it so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?

Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all her might, and how she made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the queens of Judah?

Hezekiah slept with her mothers; and Manasseh her daughter reigned in her place.