2 Kings 20:16-18

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¹⁶Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord!

¹⁷Behold, the time is coming when ^[a]all that is in your house, and that which your forefathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the Lord.

¹⁸And some of your sons who shall be born to you shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of Babylon’s king.

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Footnotes

2 Kings 20:17 This is the first of ten tragic results of Hezekiah’s self-willed prayer, which God’s plan for Hezekiah’s death would have prevented (see the footnote on 20:6). For a listing of these results see II Kings 20:18; 21:1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 14, 16, 20.