2 Kings 20:18 (LSB)

Passage

‘And some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will beget, will be taken away; and they will become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

Nearby Context

2 Kings 20:16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of Yahweh.

2 Kings 20:17 ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and all that your fathers have treasured up to this day will be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says Yahweh.

2 Kings 20:18 ‘And some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will beget, will be taken away; and they will become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

2 Kings 20:19 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of Yahweh which you have spoken is good.” For he said, “Will it not be good, if there will be peace and truth in my days?”

2 Kings 20:20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and all his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "some", "sons", "issue", "beget", "taken", "away", "become", and "officials". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "some" and "sons", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 17's "Behold the days are coming when all..." into verse 19's "Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah The word...", so "some" and "sons" belong inside that flow. In 2 Kings context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "some" and "sons" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.