2 Kings 20:5
"Return and tell Hezekiah, the captain of my people, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of David, thy father, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold I will heal you. On the third day you will go up unto the house of the Lord." ' "
A great Bible practical joke is to ask someone to find the book of Hezekiah; they'll swear it's in there somewhere. For some reason this king of Judah sticks in people's minds, and indeed scripture praises him above all the kings of the southern kingdom. He's godly, but on a human level he seems to have all the foibles of other men in scripture. So what makes him so great? God declared him as good as dead, and then raised him on the third day. Like Isaac, he is a type of the death and resurrection of Christ. He's great because of how God used him, on a sickbed, in just a few days.
A great Bible practical joke is to ask someone to find the book of Hezekiah; they'll swear it's in there somewhere. For some reason this king of Judah sticks in people's minds, and indeed scripture praises him above all the kings of the southern kingdom. He's godly, but on a human level he seems to have all the foibles of other men in scripture. So what makes him so great? God declared him as good as dead, and then raised him on the third day. Like Isaac, he is a type of the death and resurrection of Christ. He's great because of how God used him, on a sickbed, in just a few days.
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