Help QuickNav Adv. Options
ESV

ESV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible
Aa
Return to Index

Today's Bible Reading :: 2 Kings 20 - 22 (ESV)

2 Kings 20Listen to the passage

2 Kings 21Listen to the passage

2 Kings 22Listen to the passage

2 Kings 20

Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery

(2Ch 32:24–26; Isa 38:1–8 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:1 - In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:2 - Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:3 - “Now, O LORD, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:4 - And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:5 - “Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:6 - and I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:7 - And Isaiah said, “Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:8 - And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:9 - And Isaiah said, “This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:10 - And Hezekiah answered, “It is an easy thing for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. Rather let the shadow go back ten steps.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:11 - And Isaiah the prophet called to the LORD, and he brought the shadow back ten steps, by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz.

Hezekiah and the Babylonian Envoys

(Isa 39:1–8 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:12 - At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:13 - And Hezekiah welcomed them, and he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14 - Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? And from where did they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, from Babylon.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:15 - He said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:16 - Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:17 - Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18 - And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:19 - Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?”
(2Ch 32:32, 33 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:20 - The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah 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 Judah?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:21 - And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 21

Manasseh Reigns in Judah

(2Ch 33:1–20 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:1 - Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:2 - And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:4 - And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem will I put my name.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:5 - And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:6 - And he burned his son as an offering[fn] and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:7 - And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:8 - And I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander anymore out of the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that my servant Moses commanded them.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9 - But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.

Manasseh’s Idolatry Denounced

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:10 - And the LORD said by his servants the prophets,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - “Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:12 - therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster[fn] that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:13 - And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:14 - And I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:15 - because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:16 - Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:17 - Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:18 - And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son reigned in his place.

Amon Reigns in Judah

(2Ch 33:21–25 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:19 - Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:20 - And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - He walked in all the way in which his father walked and served the idols that his father served and worshiped them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:22 - He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:23 - And the servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his house.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24 - But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:25 - Now the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26 - And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew made his son pass through the fire
Or evil

2 Kings 22

Josiah Reigns in Judah

(2Ch 34:1, 2 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1 - Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:2 - And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the way of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

Josiah Repairs the Temple

(2Ch 34:8–28 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:3 - In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the LORD, saying,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:4 - “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:5 - And let it be given into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD, and let them give it to the workmen who are at the house of the LORD, repairing the house

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:6 - (that is, to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons), and let them use it for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the house.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:7 - But no accounting shall be asked from them for the money that is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly.”

Hilkiah Finds the Book of the Law

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:8 - And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:9 - And Shaphan the secretary came to the king, and reported to the king, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:10 - Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it before the king.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:11 - When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:12 - And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:13 - “Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:14 - So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter), and they talked with her.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:15 - And she said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:16 - Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:17 - Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:18 - But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:20 - Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place.’” And they brought back word to the king.
See the ESV Preface
ESV

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version copyright © 2001, 2007, 2011, 2016, 2025 by Crossway Books and Bibles, a Publishing Ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

See detailed copyright information.

For more information on this translation, see the ESV Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
ESV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
ESV
Daily Devotionals

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan