Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

If you're reading a print Bible, it may have been challenging to flip backwards so far

today from where we were in Isaiah.

We've been reading Isaiah's prophecies about Israel being taken captive by Babylon, but

that hasn't happened yet.

He was for telling it, but we're still about a hundred years off from when it actually

happens, which means we have a few final kings to meet.

Today we read the story of King Hezekiah's downfall, and if this all feels familiar to

you, it should, because we read it about a week ago in Isaiah 38 on day 206.

As a refresher, Hezekiah starts out as a 10 on the following God's scale, but plummets

down to like a 2 in his final years.

During the early years of his reign, he was reestablishing worship and theace, tearing

down high places, and generally not missing a step.

But then at one point, he gets sick, and God sends Isaiah to tell him it's time to die.

He's torn up about it.

He begs God to let him live, and God says, okay, you can have another 15 years.

Just put some smashed up figs on your boil so you can recover.

Before we move on in his story, let's investigate this a little bit, because it seems like God

said something would happen and it didn't happen.

So there are a couple of things that could be going on here.

Today, God changes his mind, or be God's plan all along was to let Hezekiah live another

15 years, and Isaiah's words of warning and Hezekiah's prayer were both working in tandem

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