These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Kings 20
Tanakh 21 verses
- 1 In those days was sick unto death. And the the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him: ‘Thus saith : Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.’
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Then he turned his to the wall, and prayed unto , saying:
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Remember now, O , I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in and with a whole , and have done that which is good in Thy sight.’ And wept sore.
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Nehemiah 13:22 Nehemiah 13:14 Nehemiah 5:19 Nehemiah 13:31 2 Kings 18:3-6 2 Samuel 12:21-22 1 Kings 8:61 1 Kings 11:4 1 Kings 3:6 Luke 1:6 Genesis 5:24 Job 1:1 John 1:47 Isaiah 38:14 Genesis 8:1 1 Kings 15:14 Psalm 25:7 1 John 3:21-22 Psalm 119:49 Psalm 89:47 1 Kings 2:4 Job 1:8 Hebrews 5:7 Psalm 89:50 2 Chronicles 16:9 Jeremiah 4:2 Psalm 102:9 Psalm 32:2 2 Chronicles 31:20-21 Psalm 145:18 Isaiah 63:11 Genesis 17:1 Psalm 6:6 Genesis 5:22 2 Corinthians 1:12 -
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And it came to pass, before was gone out of the inner court of the city, that the of came to him, saying:
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Return, and say to the prince of My people: Thus saith , the of thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears; behold, I will heal thee; on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of .
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Psalm 39:12 Psalm 66:19-20 2 Kings 19:20 1 Samuel 9:16 1 Samuel 10:1 Joshua 5:14-15 Psalm 118:17-19 Psalm 126:5 Psalm 56:8 Revelation 7:17 Psalm 65:2 James 5:14-15 2 Chronicles 13:12 Psalm 147:3 Exodus 15:26 1 Chronicles 17:2-4 2 Samuel 5:2 2 Samuel 7:3-5 Psalm 116:12-14 Deuteronomy 32:39 Luke 1:13 Job 33:19-26 Isaiah 55:3 Hebrews 2:10 Matthew 22:32 John 5:14 Psalm 66:13-15 Isaiah 38:5 2 Chronicles 34:3 2 Kings 20:7-8 Isaiah 38:22 -
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And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the of ; and I will defend this city for Mine own sake, and for My David’s sake.’
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And said: ‘Take a cake of figs.’ And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
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And said unto : ‘What shall be the sign that will heal me, and that I shall go up unto the house of the third day?’
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And said: ‘This shall be the sign unto thee from , that will do the thing that He hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
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And answered: ‘It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten degrees; nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.’
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- 11 And the cried unto ; and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.
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At that time Berodach-baladan the son of Baladan, of , sent a letter and a present unto ; for he had heard that had been sick.
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- 13 And hearkened unto them, and showed them all his treasure-house, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures; there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that showed them not.
- 14 Then came the unto , and said unto him: ‘What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?’ And said: ‘They are come from a far country, even from .’
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And he said: ‘What have they seen in thy house?’ And answered: ‘All that is in my house have they seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.’
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And said unto : ‘Hear the of .
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- 17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried to ; nothing shall be left, saith .
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And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be officers in the palace of the of .’
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- 19 Then said unto : ‘Good is the of which thou hast spoken.’ He said moreover: ‘Is it not so, if and shall be in my days?’
- 20 Now the rest of the acts of , and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of ?
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And slept with his fathers; and his son reigned in his stead.
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