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Isaiah chapter 39, verse 8.

Then Hezekiah 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 Hezekiah 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 eunuchs 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 his pride,

he's saying, look at me, look at all I have to these foreign governments. And so that's selfishness

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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