22AND HE SAID HEZEKIAH WHAT? [WILL BE THE] SIGN THAT I WILL GO UP [THE] HOUSE OF YAHWEH 22And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”
1AT THE TIME <THE> THAT HE SENT MERODACH- BALADAN [THE] SON OF BALADAN [THE] KING OF BABYLON LETTERS AND A GIFT TO HEZEKIAH AND HE HAD HEARD THAT HE HAD BEEN SICK AND HE WAS STRONG Hezekiah Shows His Treasures (2 Kings 20:12–19) 1At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness and recovery.
2AND HE WAS PLEASED ON THEM HEZEKIAH AND HE SHOWED THEM <OBJ.> [THE] HOUSE OF TREASURE HIS <OBJ.> THE SILVER AND <OBJ.> THE GOLD AND <OBJ.> THE SPICES AND <OBJ.> THE OIL <THE> GOOD AND <OBJ.> ALL [THE] HOUSE OF WEAPONS HIS AND <OBJ.> ALL THAT IT WAS FOUND IN STOREHOUSES HIS NOT IT WAS ANYTHING WHICH NOT HE SHOWED THEM HEZEKIAH IN HOUSE HIS AND IN ALL REALM HIS 2And Hezekiah welcomed the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his treasure house— the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his entire armory all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
3AND HE CAME ISAIAH THE PROPHET TO THE KING HEZEKIAH AND HE SAID TO HIM WHAT? DID THEY SAY THE MEN <THE> THESE AND FROM WHERE? ARE THEY COMING TO YOU AND HE SAID HEZEKIAH FROM A LAND DISTANT THEY HAVE COME TO ME FROM BABYLON 3Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came to me from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”
4AND HE SAID WHAT? DID THEY SEE IN HOUSE YOUR AND HE SAID HEZEKIAH <OBJ.> ALL THAT [IS] IN HOUSE MY THEY SAW NOT IT WAS ANYTHING WHICH NOT I SHOWED THEM IN STOREHOUSES MY 4“What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
5AND HE SAID ISAIAH TO HEZEKIAH HEAR [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH OF HOSTS 5Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD of Hosts:
6HERE! DAYS [ARE] COMING AND IT WILL BE CARRIED OFF ALL THAT [IS] IN HOUSE YOUR AND THAT THEY STORED UP ANCESTORS YOUR UNTIL THE DAY <THE> THIS BABYLON NOT IT WILL REMAIN ANYTHING HE SAYS YAHWEH 6The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
7AND SOME OF OWN DESCENDANTS YOUR WHO THEY WILL COME FORTH FROM YOU WHOM YOU WILL FATHER PEOPLE WILL TAKE AND THEY WILL BE EUNUCHS IN [THE] PALACE OF [THE] KING OF BABYLON 7And some of your descendants your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
8AND HE SAID HEZEKIAH TO ISAIAH [IS] GOOD [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH WHICH YOU HAVE SPOKEN AND HE SAID THAT IT WILL BE PEACE AND STABILITY IN DAYS MY 8But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “At least there will be peace and security in my lifetime.”