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    Isaiah 39

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    Hezekiah calls a prophecy of emptied palaces and captured descendants good, provided the timetable leaves his own peace intact.

    The tour of the treasure housevv. 1–2

    Merodach-baladan, son of Baladan king of Babylon, sends letters and a gift after hearing of Hezekiah’s illness and recovery. Hezekiah receives the envoys gladly, then conducts an astonishingly thorough tour: silver, gold, spices, precious oil, the armory, and every storehouse. The palace and the dominion are searched not for what to hide, but for what remains to be shown.

    Isaiah asks what was openedvv. 3–7

    Isaiah arrives with two very plain questions: where the visitors came from, and what they saw. Hezekiah answers both without reserve: they came from Babylon, and they saw everything. Then Isaiah gives the word of the LORD of Hosts: the palace and the accumulated inheritance of the fathers will be carried away to Babylon, and some descendants will be taken to serve as eunuchs in the king’s palace there. The tour, having been so complete, leaves a remarkably complete inventory for the prophecy.

    A good word, on a narrow timetablev. 8

    Hezekiah calls the word good. The reason is not hidden: the promised peace and security fall within his own lifetime, while the emptied palace and taken descendants belong to the time beyond it. It is a small sentence with a very large shadow.

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    1. Isa 39:1At 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.

    2. Isa 39:2And 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.

    3. Isa 39:3Then 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.”

    4. Isa 39:4“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.”

    5. Isa 39:5Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD of Hosts:

    6. Isa 39:6The 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.

    7. Isa 39:7And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

    8. Isa 39:8But 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.”

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    • 62 Kings 25:13–15Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
    • 82 Chronicles 32:26Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.
    • 6Jeremiah 20:5I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.
    • 62 Kings 24:13As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.
    • 82 Chronicles 34:28‘Now I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place and on its people.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
    • 12 Kings 20:12–19At 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.
    • 22 Chronicles 32:31And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.
    • 22 Chronicles 32:25But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
    • 3Deuteronomy 28:49The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
    • 7Daniel 1:1–7In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
    • 32 Chronicles 16:7At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.
    • 32 Samuel 12:1Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
    • 3Jeremiah 5:15Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
    • 6Daniel 1:2And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.
    • 81 Peter 5:6Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.
    • 12 Samuel 10:2And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent some of his servants to console Hanun concerning his father. But when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,

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