And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
Parallel translations
- WEB Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
- BSB In response, King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out to heaven in prayer,
- NKJV Now because of this King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, prayed and cried out to heaven.
- NASB But King Hezekiah and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed about this and called out to heaven for help.
- NLT Then King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out in prayer to God in heaven.
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Quick answer
Facing the Assyrian threat, King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah pray and cry out to heaven. It models turning to God rather than human strength in crisis.
Overview
With Sennacherib's army besieging Judah and blaspheming the Lord, Hezekiah and Isaiah unite in prayer (cf. 2 Kings 19; Isaiah 37). Their appeal goes directly 'to heaven,' acknowledging that deliverance belongs to God alone. This faith-filled cry sets up the dramatic rescue that follows and foreshadows the believer's confidence that God hears the prayers of the righteous.
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 91:14–15Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
- 2 Chr 14:11And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
- 2 Chr 20:6–12And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
- Isa 37:14–20And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
- 2 Kgs 19:2–4And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
- Ps 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
- Isa 37:1–4And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kgs 19:14–19And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
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