Isaiah 
 39
  - At that time Merodach-Baladan son of Baladan 
    king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of 
    his illness and recovery.
 
  - Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed 
    them what was in his storehouses -- the silver, the gold, the spices, the 
    fine oil, his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There 
    was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show 
    them.
 
  - Then 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 to me from 
    Babylon."
 
  - The 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."
 
  - Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear 
    the word of the LORD Almighty:
 
  - The 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.
 
  - And 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."
 
  - "The word of the LORD you have spoken 
    is good," Hezekiah replied. For he thought, "There will be peace 
    and security in my lifetime." 
      
  
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