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. I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.
6. I will add to your days fifteen years, and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for My own sake and for the sake of David My servant.”
7. Then Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” So they took it and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
8. Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I should go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?”
9. Isaiah said, “This is the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that He has spoken: Should the shadow walk forward ten steps or go back ten steps?”
10. And Hezekiah answered, “It is an easy thing for the shadow to stretch ten steps, so let it go back ten steps.”
11. Isaiah the prophet called to the Lord, and He made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.
12. At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been ill.
13. Hezekiah welcomed them and showed them all the treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine oil, all the armory, and all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
14. Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?”Hezekiah said, “They came from a distant land, from Babylon.”
15. He said, “What have they seen in your house?”Hezekiah said, “They have seen everything in my house. There is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”