Isaiah 39

Isaiah 39, verse 1. ¹At that time, Merodach the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters, ambassadors, and gifts to Hezekiah, for he heard he was sick and almost died, but had recovered. Isaiah 39, verse 2. ²Hezekiah was very glad they came, and he showed them the house of his treasures—the oil of myrrh, the fragrant incense, the ointment, the silver and the gold—and all the treasure houses with their vessels, and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his house he did not show them. Isaiah 39, verse 3. ³Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?” So Hezekiah said, “They came to me from a far country, from Babylon.” Isaiah 39, verse 4. ⁴Then he said, “What did they see in your house?” So Hezekiah answered, “They saw everything in my house; there is nothing in my house they did not see, even among my treasures.” Isaiah 39, verse 5. ⁵Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord of hosts: Isaiah 39, verse 6. ⁶‘Behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘when everything in your house and everything your fathers accumulated until this day shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left.’ Isaiah 39, verse 7. ⁷God also said they shall take away some of your sons whom you begot, and make them eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” Isaiah 39, verse 8. ⁸So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The Lord's word you spoke is good. Let there indeed be peace and righteousness in my days.”