“In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.”
Isaiah comes to Hezekiah and reports that the LORD says Hezekiah will die and should set his house in order, establishing a crisis of illness and death sentence for the king. The oracle shifts from the Assyrian crisis to a personal crisis affecting Hezekiah. The command to set the house in order suggests the finality of the judgment and the proximity of death.
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