12. At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to HEZEKIAH; for he had heard that HEZEKIAH had been sick.

13. HEZEKIAH listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his dominion, that HEZEKIAH didn't show them.

14. Then Isaiah the prophet came to king HEZEKIAH, and said to him, "What did these men say? From where did they come to you?"HEZEKIAH said, "They have come from a far country, even from Babylon."

15. He said, "What have they seen in your house?"HEZEKIAH answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."

16. Isaiah said to HEZEKIAH, "Hear The LORD's word.

17. 'Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,' says The LORD.

18. 'They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'"

19. Then HEZEKIAH said to Isaiah, "The LORD's word which you have spoken is good." He said moreover, "Isn't it so, if peace and truth will be in my days?"

25. But HEZEKIAH didn't reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

26. Notwithstanding HEZEKIAH humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that The LORD's wrath didn't come on them in the days of HEZEKIAH.

27. HEZEKIAH had exceedingly much riches and honor. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels;

28. also storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds.

29. Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant posessions.

30. This same HEZEKIAH also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David's city. HEZEKIAH prospered in all his works.

31. However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.