Isaiah 38:5

God tells Hezekiah he has heard his prayer, seen his tears, and will add fifteen years to his life. God graciously grants a longer life in answer to prayer.

Cross-references · 24

• 1 Jn 5:14–15And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
• Ps 34:5–6They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
• Rev 7:17For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
• Luke 1:13But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
• Ps 147:3He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
• Ps 56:8Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
• 2 Kgs 19:20Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
• 2 Cor 7:6Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
• Matt 22:32I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
• Ps 116:15Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
• Isa 7:13–14And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
• Ps 89:3–4I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
• 1 Kgs 9:4–5And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
• Acts 27:24Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
• 1 Kgs 8:25Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
• 1 Kgs 11:12–13Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
• 1 Kgs 15:4Nevertheless for David’s sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
• 2 Sam 7:3–5And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the LORD is with thee.
• 2 Kgs 18:2Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
• 1 Chr 17:2–4Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.
• Ps 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
• 2 Chr 34:3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
• Job 14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
• 2 Kgs 18:13Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.

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