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Hexekhiya mob
(2VKk. 32:24-26; Yxy. 38:1-8, 21-22)
2Mas Hexekhiya tig ndag rua tim phaab ntsaa hab thov Yawmsaub has tas,
3“Au Yawmsaub, kuv taij thov koj ncu txug tas kuv ua lub neej xwb rua koj rua ntawm koj lub xubndag kawg sab kawg ntsws hab tau ua tej kws koj pum tas zoo.” Tes Hexekhiya txawm quaj heev kawg.
4Thaus Yaxaya tsw tau tawm huv lub tshaav puam ntawm vaajntxwv tsev, Yawmsaub has lug tuaj rua nwg tas,
5“Ca le rov qaab moog has rua Hexekhiya kws yog kuv haiv tuabneeg tug thawj tas, ‘Koj yawm koob Tavi tug Vaajtswv Yawmsaub has le nuav tas, Kuv tub nov koj tej lug thov lawm, kuv tub pum koj tej kua muag lawm. Kuv yuav khu kuas koj zoo mas nub peb koj yuav tau moog rua huv Yawmsaub lub tuam tsev.
6Kuv yuav txuas koj txujsa ntev kaum tswb xyoo ntxwv hab. Kuv yuav cawm koj hab lub nroog nuav dim ntawm Axilia tug vaajntxwv txhais teg, hab kuv yuav tsom kwm lub nroog nuav vem yog saib rua kuv hab saib rua kuv tug qhev Tavi.’ ”
7Mas Yaxaya has tas, “Ca le coj ib lub ncuav txwv cua lug, kuas puab muab lub ncuav hov npuab rua ntawm lub rwj sub nwg txhad le rov qaab zoo.”
8Hexekhiya has rua Yaxaya tas, “Yuav muaj ib yaam daabtsw qha kuas paub tas Yawmsaub yuav khu kuv hab peb nub kuv yuav tau moog rua huv Yawmsaub lub tuam tsev?”
9Yaxaya has tas, “Nuav yog yaam txujci kws Yawmsaub ua rua koj paub tas nwg yuav ua lawv le nwg tub cog lug lawm. Yuav ca tug duab nub moog tom ntej kaum qeb los rov tom qaab kaum qeb?”
10Hexekhiya teb tas, “Yoojyim ua rua tug duab nub moog tom ntej kaum qeb. Yog le nuav thov ca tug duab thim rov qaab kaum qeb.”
11Tes Yaxaya kws yog xwbfwb cev Vaajtswv lug taij thov Yawmsaub, mas Yawmsaub ua rua tug duab nub thim rov qaab kaum qeb kws tug duab tub moog dhau lawd ntawm lub chaw ntsuag kws Aha ua.
Hexekhiya txais tog Npanpiloo cov tim xyoob
(Yxy. 39:1-8)
16Tes Yaxaya txawm has rua Hexekhiya tas, “Ca le noog Yawmsaub tej lug.
17Saib maj, lub caij lub nyoog saamswm lug txug lawm kws txhua tsaav txhua yaam huv koj lub vaaj lub tsev hab tej kws koj tej laug khaws tau ca lug txug nub nua yuav raug muab coj moog rua Npanpiloo, tsw tshuav ib yaam daabtsw hlo le. Yawmsaub has le nuav ntaag.
18Hab koj tej tub kws koj yug muaj qee leej yuav raug muab coj moog hab puab yuav ua nraug saam rua huv vaajntxwv Npanpiloo lub tsev.”
19Mas Hexekhiya has rua Yaxaya tas, “Yawmsaub tej lug kws koj has nuav kuj zoo.” Tsua qhov nwg xaav huv lub sab tas, “Yog muaj kev thaaj yeeb hab nyob kaaj sab lug moog taag kuv swm neej, kuj yog zoo lawm los tsw yog?”
Hexekhiya tuag
(2VKk. 32:32-33)
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Hezekiah’s Illness
1In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”
2Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,
3“Remember, Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4Before Isaiah had left the middle court, the word of the Lord came to him:
5“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord.
6I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.’ ”
7Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” They did so and applied it to the boil, and he recovered.
8Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord on the third day from now?”
9Isaiah answered, “This is the Lord’s sign to you that the Lord will do what he has promised: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back ten steps?”
10“It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps,” said Hezekiah. “Rather, have it go back ten steps.”
11Then the prophet Isaiah called on the Lord, and the Lord made the shadow go back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.
Envoys From Babylon
12At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of Hezekiah’s illness.
13Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices and the fine olive oil—his armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.
14Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, “What did those men say, and where did they come from?”
“From a distant land,” Hezekiah replied. “They came from Babylon.”
15The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?”
“They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah said. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
16Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord:
17The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord.
18And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
19“The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?”
20As for the other events of Hezekiah’s reign, all his achievements and how he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
21Hezekiah rested with his ancestors. And Manasseh his son succeeded him as king.