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 5:14–15This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
• Ps 34:5–6They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
• Rev 7:17for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
• Luke 1:13But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
• Ps 147:3He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
• Ps 56:8You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren’t they in your book?
• 2 Kgs 19:20Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.
• 2 Cor 7:6Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
• Matt 22:32‘I 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 Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.
• Isa 7:13–14He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
• Ps 89:3–4“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
• 1 Kgs 9:4–5As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
• Acts 27:24saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
• 1 Kgs 8:25Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’
• 1 Kgs 11:12–13Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.
• 1 Kgs 15:4Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;
• 2 Sam 7:3–5Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you.”
• 2 Kgs 18:2He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
• 1 Chr 17:2–4Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”
• Ps 39:12“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, 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, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.
• Job 14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;
• 2 Kgs 18:13Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

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