“I wanted to be the first to tell you,” he beamed, “You need to start thinking about gathering your family together and getting your affairs in order…any special funeral arrangements, that sort of thing.”
This historically significant prophesy gained Isaiah a modest level of fame among the upper classes and, hoping to build on this, he came eagerly running some time later when King Hezekiah became seriously ill. I hear that all the prettiest of the royal princes will be neatly altered to serve the Assyrian monarchy as eunuchs!” just not right now.” He must have felt that the king was not sufficiently upset about this, because he added, “. “Don’t get too complacent, because God intends that the people of Judah be carried into captivity in Babylon like the Israelites were,” he announced, “. God sent the prophet Isaiah to King Hezekiah with a warning. This is one of the bits that didn’t make it into the book.) (an outtake from Once More, From the Beginning.
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