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Isaiah Chapter 38

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In this chapter the prophet describes the people's longing for God's presence and their desire for a dwelling place in his temple. He reminds them that God will provide a place of rest and a sanctuary where they may worship, contrasting their current emptiness with God's promised sanctuary.

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(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.
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II Kings 20:1II Kings 20:2II Kings 20:3II Kings 20:4II Kings 20:5II Kings 20:6II Kings 20:7II Kings 20:8II Kings 20:9II Kings 20:10II Kings 20:11II Chronicles 32:24

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II Kings 20:1Romans 14:8II Kings 7:4II Kings 20:14II Chronicles 32:20II Chronicles 32:32

(2) Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
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I Kings 8:30Psalms 50:15Psalms 91:15Matthew 6:6

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I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4Deuteronomy 28:54

(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.
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Nehemiah 5:19Nehemiah 13:14Nehemiah 13:22Nehemiah 13:31Psalms 18:20Psalms 18:21Psalms 18:22Psalms 18:23Psalms 18:24Psalms 18:25Psalms 18:26Psalms 18:27

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II Kings 20:3Leviticus 26:42Isaiah 64:9II Samuel 13:36

(4) Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
(5) Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
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II Samuel 7:3II Samuel 7:4II Samuel 7:5I Chronicles 17:2I Chronicles 17:3I Chronicles 17:4Isaiah 7:13Isaiah 7:14I Kings 8:25I Kings 9:4I Kings 9:5I Kings 11:12

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II Kings 20:5

(6) And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
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Isaiah 12:6Isaiah 31:4Isaiah 37:35II Chronicles 32:22II Timothy 4:17

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II Kings 17:4II Kings 20:6

(7) And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
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Isaiah 38:22Isaiah 7:11Isaiah 7:12Isaiah 7:13Isaiah 7:14Isaiah 37:30Genesis 9:13Judges 6:17Judges 6:18Judges 6:19Judges 6:20Judges 6:21

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Matthew 12:39Matthew 16:4Luke 11:29

(8) Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
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Joshua 10:12Joshua 10:13Joshua 10:14II Kings 20:11II Chronicles 32:24II Chronicles 32:31Matthew 16:1

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II Kings 20:10II Kings 20:9II Kings 20:11Genesis 32:15Genesis 45:23Exodus 27:12

(9) The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
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Isaiah 12:1Isaiah 12:2Isaiah 12:3Isaiah 12:4Isaiah 12:5Isaiah 12:6Exodus 15:1Exodus 15:2Exodus 15:3Exodus 15:4Exodus 15:5Exodus 15:6

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II Kings 20:12Isaiah 39:1

(10) I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
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Isaiah 38:1Job 6:11Job 7:7Job 17:11Job 17:12Job 17:13Job 17:14Job 17:15Job 17:16II Corinthians 1:9

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Revelation 21:13Nehemiah 13:19

(11) I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
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Job 35:14Job 35:15Psalms 6:4Psalms 6:5Psalms 27:13Psalms 31:22Psalms 116:8Psalms 116:9Ecclesiastes 9:5Ecclesiastes 9:6

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John 15:19Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Colossians 2:20John 1:10

(12) Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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Job 7:7Psalms 89:45Psalms 89:46Psalms 89:47Psalms 102:11Psalms 102:23Psalms 102:24Isaiah 1:8Isaiah 13:20Job 7:6Job 9:25Job 9:26

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Genesis 31:33II Kings 8:12Isaiah 38:13Genesis 47:21Numbers 19:14Exodus 15:26

(13) I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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I Kings 13:24I Kings 13:25I Kings 13:26I Kings 20:36Job 10:16Job 10:17Job 16:12Job 16:13Job 16:14Psalms 39:10Psalms 50:22Psalms 51:8

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Jeremiah 8:1II Kings 8:12Numbers 9:21Judges 16:2Ruth 3:13Isaiah 5:11

(14) Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
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Job 30:29Psalms 102:4Psalms 102:5Psalms 102:6Psalms 102:7Isaiah 59:11Ezekiel 7:16Nahum 2:7Psalms 69:3Psalms 119:82Psalms 119:123Psalms 123:1

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I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 41:7

(15) What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
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Joshua 7:8Ezra 9:10Psalms 39:9Psalms 39:10John 12:27I Kings 21:27I Samuel 1:10II Kings 4:27Job 7:11Job 10:1Job 21:25

(16) O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
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Isaiah 64:5Deuteronomy 8:3Job 33:19Job 33:20Job 33:21Job 33:22Job 33:23Job 33:24Job 33:25Job 33:26Job 33:27Job 33:28

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Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20Jeremiah 38:17Deuteronomy 8:3Jeremiah 38:2Ezekiel 16:6

(17) Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
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Job 3:25Job 3:26Job 29:18Psalms 30:6Psalms 30:7Psalms 30:3Psalms 40:2Psalms 86:13Psalms 88:4Psalms 88:5Psalms 88:6Jonah 2:6

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Luke 6:32Hosea 3:1I John 2:15I John 4:16I John 4:18Revelation 9:2

(18) For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
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Psalms 6:5Psalms 30:9Psalms 88:11Psalms 115:17Psalms 115:18Ecclesiastes 9:10Numbers 16:33Proverbs 14:32Matthew 8:12Matthew 25:46Luke 16:26Luke 16:27

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Ruth 4:6Job 23:9Ecclesiastes 1:15Isaiah 44:18Isaiah 59:1Jeremiah 10:5

(19) The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
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Psalms 146:2Ecclesiastes 9:10John 9:4Genesis 18:19Exodus 12:26Exodus 12:27Exodus 13:14Exodus 13:15Deuteronomy 4:9Deuteronomy 6:7Joshua 4:21Joshua 4:22

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Leviticus 14:6I Kings 3:22I Kings 3:26Ecclesiastes 9:4Ezekiel 1:13Ezekiel 1:15

(20) The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
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Psalms 9:13Psalms 9:14Psalms 27:5Psalms 27:6Psalms 30:11Psalms 30:12Psalms 51:15Psalms 66:13Psalms 66:14Psalms 66:15Psalms 145:2Psalms 150:4

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Psalms 47:6I Chronicles 28:14

(21) For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
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II Kings 20:7Mark 7:33John 9:6

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II Kings 20:7Jeremiah 24:2

(22) Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
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II Kings 20:8Psalms 42:1Psalms 42:2Psalms 84:1Psalms 84:2Psalms 84:10Psalms 84:11Psalms 84:12Psalms 118:18Psalms 118:19Psalms 122:1John 5:14

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Matthew 12:39Matthew 16:4Luke 11:29

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