[[2 Kings-20]] Prev: [[Prophecies in 2 Kings-19]] | Next: [[Prophecies in 2 Kings-21]] --- ### I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Isaiah prophesies that Hezekiah's life will be extended by exactly fifteen years and that Jerusalem will be protected from the Assyrian Empire. *Historical context*: The fulfillment of the 15-year extension is supported by biblical chronology; Hezekiah is recorded as reigning for 29 years, and his illness occurred in his 14th year (701 BC), with his death occurring around 686 BC. The deliverance from Assyria is historically associated with the failed siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib in 701 BC, an event also documented in the Taylor Prism (Sennacherib's Annals). *Related to*: ### Isaiah said, 'Take a cake of figs.' They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. *Type*: fulfillment *Summary*: Hezekiah recovers from his terminal illness as promised by God through Isaiah. *Historical context*: The text records the immediate physical fulfillment of the healing promised in verse 5. This allowed Hezekiah to live the additional 15 years and father Manasseh, ensuring the continuation of the Davidic line. *Related to*: Yahweh... says, '...Behold, I will heal you.' ### Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz. *Type*: fulfillment *Summary*: A miraculous sign is given where the sun's shadow moves backward, confirming the truth of the prophecy regarding Hezekiah's healing. *Historical context*: This celestial sign served as a divine guarantee for the prophecy in verse 5. Some historical commentators suggest this event may have been noticed as far as Babylon, prompting the subsequent visit from Merodach-baladan's envoys. *Related to*: What will be the sign that Yahweh will heal me... should the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps? ### Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,' says Yahweh. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Isaiah predicts the total seizure of the Judean royal treasures and their deportation to Babylon. *Historical context*: This was fulfilled approximately 115 years later during the Babylonian invasions. [[In|In 597]] BC and finally in 586 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II stripped the temple and the king's house of their treasures and transported them to Babylon, as recorded in [[2 Kings-24#v13|2 Kings 24:13]] and 25:13–15 and confirmed by the Babylonian Chronicles. *Related to*: ### They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Isaiah predicts that Hezekiah's own biological descendants will be taken as captives and forced to serve as officials (eunuchs) in the Babylonian royal court. *Historical context*: The book of Daniel (1:1–7) records that Daniel and other youths of the 'seed royal' and nobility were taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. They were placed under the authority of the 'chief of the eunuchs' (Ashpenaz) to be trained for service in the palace, specifically fulfilling this prophetic judgment. *Related to*: --- #ai_prophecy