“Remember, Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.”
This powerful prayer added 15 years to Hezekiah Life
The name Hezekiah is a Hebrew baby name meaning: God has strengthened. God is my strength.
One of the kings of Judah in the Old Testament mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. Matthew 1:1–17
. Hezekiah was the son of King Ahaz a wicked Man who sacrificed his brothers. Chron 28:5,17-19 Therefore the LORD his God handed him over to the king of Aram…The Edomites had again come and attacked Judah and carried away prisoners, while the Philistines had raided towns in the foothills and in the Negev of Judah… The LORD had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had promoted wickedness in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the LORD.
Hezekiah’s mother, Abijah Biblical Hebrew unisex name that means “my Father is Yah” Abi was a daughter of the high priest Zechariah not to be mistaken with Abijam (אבים ‘aḄiYaM “My Father is Yam [Sea]”)
2 Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3 “Remember, Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 Before Isaiah had left the middle court, the word of the Lord came to him: 5 “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord. 6 I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.’”
2 Kings 20 v2 New International Version (NIV)
Hezekiah’s Prayer14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said: “O Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. 16 Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. 17 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands 18 and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed. 19 So now, O Lord our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O Lord, are God alone.”2 Kings 19:14-19 NIV
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