Isaiah 39

Isaiah

39 ¹At that time Merodach-baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, when he had heard that he had been sick and had regained strength. ²Hezekiah rejoiced concerning them, and he showed them the house of his treasure, the silver and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all of his armory, and all that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah did not show them. ³Then Isaiah, the prophet, came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say to you? And from where did they come to you?” And Hezekiah said,

Hezekiah

“They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon.”

Isaiah

⁴And he said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah said,

Hezekiah

“They have seen all that is in my house. There is not a thing that I did not show them in my treasuries.”

Isaiah

⁵Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD of Hosts.”

The Lord

⁶“Behold, the days are coming when everything that is in your house, and that your fathers have stored until this day will be carried to Babylon; not a thing will be left, says the LORD. ⁷And some of your sons, who will come from you, who will be born to you—they will be taken and will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

Isaiah

⁸And Hezekiah said to Isaiah,

Hezekiah

“The word of the LORD is good that you have spoken.”

Isaiah

And he said,

Hezekiah

“Because there will be peace and truth in my days.”