Hezekiah's Illness

Wycliffe's Bible (Modern Spelling)

2Ki 20:1–11

1 In those days Hezekiah was sick unto the death; and Isaiah, the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord God saith these things, Command or Dispose to thine house, that is, make thy testament, for thou shalt die, and thou shalt not live.
2 And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and worshipped the Lord, and said,
3 I beseech, Lord, have mind, how I have gone before thee in truth, and in a perfect heart, and I did that, that was pleasant before thee. Then Heze-kiah wept with a great weeping.
4 And before that Isaiah went out half the part of the courtyard, the word of the Lord was made to Isaiah, and said,
5 Turn thou again, and say to Hezekiah, the duke of my people, The Lord, God of David, thy father, saith these things, I have heard thy prayer, and I saw thy tears, and lo! I have healed thee. In the third day thou shalt go up into the temple of the Lord,
6 and I shall add fifteen years to thy days; but also I shall deliver thee and this city from the hand of the king of Assyrians, and I shall defend this city for me, and for David, my servant.
7 And Isaiah said, Bring ye to me a gobbet of figs. And when they had brought it, and had put it on the botch of Hezekiah or on his botch, he was healed.
8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign, that the Lord shall heal me, and also that in the third day I shall go up into the temple of the Lord?
9 To whom Isaiah said, This shall be a sign of the Lord, that the Lord shall do the word which he spake; wilt thou, that the shadow of the sun go further by ten lines, either turn again by so many degrees?
10 And Hezekiah said, It is light, or easy, that the shadow increase by ten lines, neither I will or desire that this be done, but that it turn again back-ward by ten degrees.
11 Then Isaiah, the prophet, called inwardly the Lord, and brought again backward by ten degrees the shadow by the same lines, by which it had gone down then in the horologe of Ahaz.

Isa 38:1–8

1 In those days Hezekiah was sick unto the death; and Isaiah, the prophet, the son of Amoz, entered to him, and said to him, The Lord saith these things, Dispose thy house, for thou shalt die, and thou shalt not live.
2 And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed the Lord,
3 and said, Lord, I beseech; have thou mind, I beseech, how I went before thee in truth, and in perfect heart, and I did that that was good before thine eyes. And Hezekiah wept with great weeping.
4 And the word of the Lord was made to Isaiah, and said,
5 Go thou, and say to Hezekiah, The Lord God of David, thy father, saith these things, I have heard thy prayer, and I saw thy tears. Lo! I shall add on thy days fifteen years;
6 and I shall deliver thee and this city from the hand of the king of Assyrians, and I shall defend it.
7 Forsooth this shall be to thee a sign of the Lord, that the Lord shall do this word, which he hath spoken.
8 Lo! I shall make the shadow of lines, by which it went down in the horologe of Ahaz, in the sun, to turn again backward by ten lines. And the sun turned again by ten lines, by the degrees by which it had gone down.