Isaiah 38:5
Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, and seen your tears: behold, I will add to your time fifteen years.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
4And the word of the Lord came to Esaias, saying, Go, and say to Ezekias,
Cross References
1 Kings 8:25And now, O Lord God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father, the promises which you have spoken to him, saying, There shall not be taken from you a man sitting before me on the throne of Israel, provided only your children shall take heed to their ways, to walk before me as you have walked before me.
1 Kings 11:12Only in your days I will not do + 11:12 Gr. them. it for David your father's sake: but I will take it out of the hand of your son.
2 Kings 18:2+ 18:2 Gr. a son of 25 years in his reigning. Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abu, daughter of Zacharias.
2 Kings 19:20And Esaias the son of Amos sent to Ezekias, saying, Thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, I have heard + 19:20 Lit. what things you have prayed. your prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.
2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eighth year of his reign, and he being yet a youth, he began to seek the Lord God of his father David: and in the twelfth year of his reign he began to purge Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the ornaments for the altars, and the molten images.
Psalms 6:9The Lord has listened to my petition; the Lord has accepted my prayer. 1
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:2-9
Hezekiah's Sickness. ( b. c. 710.) 1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord , Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord , 3 And said, Remember now, O Lord , I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. 4 Then came the word… Read the whole commentary →