Hezekiah’s Surprising Salvation Isaiah 38 Featuring… 2 Kings 20 & 2 Chronicles 32.

Hezekiah’s Surprising Salvation

Isaiah 38

Featuring… 2 Kings 20 & 2 Chronicles 32

• Prayer only true if before Isaiah 36

• Wealth only exists before Assyrian assault (2 Kings 18:13f, Isaiah 39)

2 Kings 18

• Removed and destroyed pagan artifacts and places of worship (v4)

• Trusted God fully (v5)

• Rebelled against Assyria (v7)

+ Samaria

Jerusalem +

ISRAEL

JUDAH

ASSYRIA

BABYLONBABYLON

Hezekiah’s Timeline

Becomes King 25 y.o

Samaria Besieged 3rd year

Israel falls to Assyria

6th year

Rejects the rule of Assyria

Relative peace

Dies aged 54

Hezekiah’s 14th year

Hezekiah’s 14th year

(Isaiah 38) Sickness/ Healing

Babylon envoys

Hezekiah offers

Assyria payment

(Isaiah 36-37)

Assyria comes

Hezekiah’s illness

• Hezekiah and Isaiah

• Prayer and a quick response

• A promise and a sign

Hezekiah’s Psalm

• A lament (vv 10 – 14)

• Response to salvation (vv 15 – 20)

– Praise God!

Our Song

• We too, have been saved

• So sing a song of praise

• A never-ending song