Discovery Box2 Kings 20:1-3 
Context20:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. 1 The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give your household instructions, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’” 2 20:2 He turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you 3 faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, 4 and how I have carried out your will.” 5 Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. 6
1 tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying.”
2 tn Heb “will not live.”
3 tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.
4 tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”
5 tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”
6 tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”
