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Isaiah 38:1-22
In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him,“ Yahweh says,‘ Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’”Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,and said,“ Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.Then Yahweh’s word came to Isaiah, saying,“ Go, and tell Hezekiah,‘ Yahweh, the God of David your father, says,“ I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, 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.This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.”’” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.I said,“ In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”I said,“ I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.Now Isaiah had said,“ Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”Hezekiah also had said,“ What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”
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2 Chronicles 32 24-2 Chronicles 32 26
In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
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Jeremiah 18:7-10
At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.
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2 Kings 19 20
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying,“ Yahweh, the God of Israel, says‘ You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.
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2 Samuel 17 23
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
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Philippians 2:27
For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.
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Jonah 3:4-10
Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said,“ In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying,“ Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.
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2 Kings 19 2
He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
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Philippians 2:30
because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
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John 11:1-5
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.The sisters therefore sent to him, saying,“ Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”But when Jesus heard it, he said,“ This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.