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‘The time is coming when everything in your house and everything your ancestors have saved until today will be carried away to Babylon. Nothing will be left!’ The Lord All-Powerful said this. The Babylonians will take your own sons, and your sons will become officers[a] in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

Then Hezekiah told Isaiah, “This message from the Lord is good.” (Hezekiah said this because he thought, “There will be real peace and security during my lifetime.”)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 39:7 officers Or “eunuchs.” See “eunuch” in the Word List.

The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon.(A) Nothing will be left, says the Lord. And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.(B)

“The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,(C)” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “There will be peace and security in my lifetime.(D)

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