Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Listen to this message from the Lord of Heaven’s Armies: The time is coming when everything in your palace—all the treasures stored up by your ancestors until now—will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left,” says the Lord. “Some of your very own sons will be taken away into exile. They will become eunuchs who will serve in the palace of Babylon’s king.” Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “This message you have given me from the Lord is good.” For the king was thinking, “At least there will be peace and security during my lifetime.” (Isaiah 39:5-8)This was always an odd passage to me. Hezekiah hears a prophecy that says that his nation, and even his children, will be destroyed. Yet he is happy because it will not be in his lifetime.
It would be like the Lord telling me, you family will die, you grandson will be made a eunuch, everything is going to be horrible and I respond with, well at least I will be gone.
It just goes to show you that sometimes even good people can be selfish.
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