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Isaiah chapter 39 verse 8

Then Hezakiah said to Isaiah the word of the Lord that you have spoken is good.

For he thought there will be peace and security in my days.

In order to realize what is so wrong about what Hezekiah said to Isaiah, we've got to realize what just happened before this.

So Isaiah just told Hezakiah that because he had been jealous for the favor and the

acclaim of foreign governments when they came he wanted to show off all that they had in

the temple and all that he had as the leader. Because of that that the days would

be coming when all the things in his house that his forefathers

had stored up for that day would be carried away to a foreign nation.

Nothing would be left.

He even said that some of Hezekiah's sons from his family line

would be taken away from Jerusalem, given over to a foreign government, or

they would become Unix in the palace of that foreign

government's king. So this was very bad news for those who would come after

Hezekiah. But then Hezekiah responds, he says,

the word of the Lord that you've spoken is good, and he thinks to himself.

Because that means there's going to be peace and security in my days.

Like he is so focused on himself. He was focused on himself when

foreign governments came and he wanted to show him all that he had as if he's the one who provided all these things instead of God but in

and his pride he's saying look at me look at all I have to these foreign

governments and so that's selflessness there and then now when he hears this prophecy of judgment to come and horror even for his family he takes solace in the fact that at least there will be peace and security for him in his days.

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