2 Kings 20:16
in 2 Kings 20Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD:
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah.
KJV
And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord.
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This verse in 2 Kings 20
Commentary
2 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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
Hear the word of the Lord
on 2 Kings 20:16-18
Hear the word of the Lord opens the sentence, and it falls in the plainest terms: all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up, shall be carried into Babylon, nothing left, and Hezekiah's own sons taken to serve as eunuchs in a Babylonian palace. The judgment answers the display of this chapter rather than causing the exile outright; the bench reads Manasseh's later idolatry as the deeper cause, this word standing as a first, plain naming of where the road already led. Babylon has appeared in this book before as a source of colonists for Samaria at 17:24; here for the first time in Kings it is named as the destroyer Judah's own treasures will travel to.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֹּ֥אמֶר | vaiyomer | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| יְשַׁעְיָ֖הוּ | yesha'yahu | Isaiah | H3470 → | 39 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּ | chizkiyahu | Hezekiah | H2396 → | 127 times |
| שְׁמַ֖ע | shema' | hear | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| דְּבַר־ | devar- | [the] word of | H1697 → | 1440 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וַיֹּ֥אמֶרand he said
vaiyomerH559 →5305 times
יְשַׁעְיָ֖הוּIsaiah
yesha'yahuH3470 →39 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּHezekiah
chizkiyahuH2396 →127 times
שְׁמַ֖עhear
shema'H8085 →1159 times
דְּבַר־[the] word of
devar-H1697 →1440 times
יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
2 Kings 7:1Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel,…
it leads to
- Joshua 3:5
Then Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”
- Exodus 16:12
“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the…
- Ezekiel 37:4
And He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and tell them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!
- 1 Samuel 11:9
So they said to the messengers who had come, “Tell the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Deliverance will be yours tomorrow by the time the sun is hot.’” And when the messengers relayed this to the…
- Exodus 9:5–6
The LORD set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.”
- Joshua 3:5
Through
1 Kings 22:19Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.
it leads to
- Job 2:1
On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.
- Job 1:6
One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
- Daniel 7:9–10
As I continued to watch, thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took His seat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool.…
- Job 2:1
Where this verse is studied
About 2 Kings

Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonLate 8th century BCE / Divided KingdomIsaiahEighth-century BCE prophet of Judah whose oracles make up the book of Isaiah; a central voice for messianic prophecy.
- PersonDivided kingdomHezekiahThe reforming king of Judah who trusted Jehovah against Sennacherib, spread the Assyrian letter before the LORD, was granted fifte…
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
