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2 Kings 20:15

in 2 Kings 20

“What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.

KJV

And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

This verse in 2 Kings 20

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But, after the destruction of Sennacherib, presents were brought him from various quarters, out of respect to a king who, by his faith and prayer, saved his country; and besides, it is by no means improbable that from the corpses in the Assyrian camp, all the gold and silver he had paid might be recovered.

This site's exposition

what did they say to you

on 2 Kings 20:14-15

Isaiah asks Hezekiah where the envoys came from, "what did they say to you," and what they have seen. Hezekiah names Babylon and answers the last question, saying "There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them". The record gives no answer to what the envoys said.

This site's exposition

What have they seen

2 Chronicles 32:31 says God left Hezekiah alone in this visit to test him and to know all that was in his heart. Isaiah turns the word everything back on him in verse 17.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Why then did he not bring them to Isaiah, and show him to them who was without doubt the best treasure he had in his dominions, and who by his prayers and prophecies had been instrumental in all those wonders which these ambassadors came to enquire into?

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

”They came from a distant land.” This is one of the three [men] whom the Holy One, Blessed Is He, tested and found them to be a pot of muddy water: [The three are,] Kayin, Chizkiyohu and Bilam.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Kings 20:14:1, via Sefaria, The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֕אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • מָ֥הwhat?

    mahH4100 →752 times

  • רָא֖וּdid they see

    rauH7200 →1300 times

  • בְּבֵיתֶ֑ךָin house your

    beveitekhaH1004 →2046 times

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • חִזְקִיָּ֗הוּHezekiah

    chizkiyahuH2396 →127 times

  • אֵ֣ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בְּבֵיתִי֙[is] in house my

    beveitiH1004 →2046 times

  • רָא֔וּthey saw

    rauH7200 →1300 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • הָיָ֥הit was

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

  • דָבָ֛רanything

    davarH1697 →1440 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • הִרְאִיתִ֖םI showed them

    hiritimH7200 →1300 times

  • בְּאֹצְרֹתָֽי׃in storehouses my

    beotzerotaiH214 →79 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Proverbs 28:13

    He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

    it leads to

    • 1 John 1:8–10

      If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Psalms 32:3–5

      When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

    • Job 31:33

      if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

    • Luke 15:18–24

      I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

    • Jeremiah 3:12–13

      Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be…

  • Through

    Job 31:33

    if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 28:13

      He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

    • Acts 5:8

      “Tell me,” said Peter, “is this the price you and your husband got for the land?” “Yes,” she answered, “that is the price.”

  • Through

    Joshua 7:19

    So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not…

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 6:5

      Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and…

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Berean Standard Bible, 2 Chronicles 32:31; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.