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470 Fourth Book of Kings

and I will turn thee back by the way by which Chapter 20
thou camest.
In those days Ezechias was sick unto death: and
29 And to thee, O Ezechias, this shall be a
Isaias, the son of Amos, the prophet, came and
sign: Eat this year what thou shalt find: and in
said to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Give
the second year, such things as spring of them-
charge concerning thy house, for thou shalt die,
selves: but in the third year sow and reap: plant
and not llve.
vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
2 And he turned his face to the wall, and
30 And whatsoever shall be left of the house of prayed to the Lord, saying:
Juda, shall take root downward, and bear fruit 3 I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have
upward. walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect
heart, and have done that which is pleasing be-
31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a rem-
fore thee. And Ezechias wept with much weep-
nant, and that which shall be saved out of mount
ing.
Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
4 And before Isaias was gone out of the middle
32 Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning of the court, the word of the Lord came to him,
the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into saying:
this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come 5 Go back, and tell Ezechias, the captain of my
before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it. people: Thus saith the Lord, the God of David,
thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have
33 By the way that he came he shall return:
seen thy tears: and behold I have healed thee:
and into this city he shall not come, saith the
Lord. on the third day thou shalt go up to the temple
of the Lord.
34 And I will protect this city, and will save 6 And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and
it for my own sake, and for David, my servant’s I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand
sake. of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect

35 And it came to pass that night, that an this city for my own sake, and for David, my
angel of the Lord came, and slew in the camp servant’s sake.
of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thou- 7 And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs.
sand. And when he arose early in the morning, And when they had brought it, and laid it upon
he saw all the bodies of the dead. his boil, he was healed.
8 And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall
36 And Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians,
be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that
departing, went away, and he returned and
I will go up to the temple of the Lord the third
abode in Ninive.
day?
37 And as he was worshipping in the temple 9 And Isaias said to him: This shall be the
of Nesroch, his god, Adramelech and Sarasar, his sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do the
sons, slew him with the sword, and they fled into word which he hath spoken: Wilt thou that the
the land of the Armenians, and Asarhaddon, his shadow go forward ten lines, or that it go back
son, reigned in his stead. so many degrees?