Today is the second day of July. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian, it is wonderful

to be here with you now. We've crossed the threshold into a new month and here we are

crossing the threshold into a brand new week. So welcome to all things new here. Our first

full week of this seventh month of the year and we will do what we always do. Gather together

around the global campfire, find a place, get comfy, release the cares of this life, allow

them to go away for this moment in time where we allow God to speak directly to us through

his word. So let's launch into our new week by doing what we also do, picking up where we

left off and that happens to be the book of 2 Kings. And today we will read chapter 20 verse 1

through 22 verse 2 and we will read from the evangelical heritage version, the EHV, this week.

In those days, as a chia became sick and was dying, then the prophet Isaiah, son of Amaz, came to him

and said, this is what the Lord says, give instructions to your house because you are going to die,

you will not recover. Then as a chia turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord saying,

please, O Lord, remember how I have walked before you in truth and with a whole heart and have

done what is good in your eyes as a chia wept bitterly. Isaiah had not yet gone out from the middle

courtyard when the word of the Lord came to him. Go back and tell chia, the leader of my people,

that this is what the Lord, the God of your father, David says, I have heard your prayer and I have

seen your tears. I will certainly heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house

of the Lord. I will add 15 years to your life and I will rescue you and this city from the hand

of the king of Assyria. I will protect this city for my own sake and for the sake of my servant,

David. Then Isaiah said, get a cake of figs so they got it and put it on the infected sore

and has a chia recovered. Then as a chia asked Isaiah, what will be the sign that the Lord will

heal me and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day from now? Isaiah said,

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