In those days Hezekiah became sick and was near death. Shaya the prophet Ibn Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says Allah, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not live. 2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Allah, saying, 3Remember now, Allah, 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. Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4Before Shaya had gone out into the middle part of the city, the word of Allah came to him, saying, 5Go back and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says Allah, the God of Dawud 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 Allah. 6I will add to your days fifteen years; and 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 Dawud’s sake. 7Shaya said, Take a lump of figs. They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. 8Hezekiah said to Shaya, What shall be the sign that Allah will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of Allah the third day? 9Shaya said, This shall be the sign to you from Allah, that Allah will do the thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps? 10Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps: no, but let the shadow go backward ten steps. 11Shaya the prophet cried to Allah; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz. 12At that time Merodach-Baladan Ibn Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. 13Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, 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 Hezekiah did not show them. 14Then Shaya the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say, and where did they come from? Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon. 15Shaya said, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them. 16Shaya said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Allah. 17Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Allah. 18They shall take your sons who shall descend from you, whom you shall father; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 19Then Hezekiah said to Shaya, The word of Allah which you have spoken is good. He said moreover, Isn’t it true that there will be peace and truth during my lifetime? 20Now the rest of the acts 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? 21Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.