Text: Isaiah 38:1-8
OT Text Referred to: 2 Kings 20:1-11
Subject: Prophetic declaration
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: These are parallel accounts of Hezekiah's illness, prayer, and healing. Both record Isaiah's initial death sentence, Hezekiah's tearful prayer facing the wall, God's reversal adding fifteen years, and the sundial sign. Isaiah 38 uniquely includes Hezekiah's psalm of thanksgiving (Isa 38:9-20), a poetic meditation on death and deliverance absent from Kings: "The living, the living — he praises You, as I do today" (Isa 38:19). The Kings account provides straightforward historiography; Isaiah embeds the same events within the prophetic book, where Hezekiah's deliverance parallels Jerusalem's deliverance from Assyria, both demonstrating Yahweh's power over death.