1At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah. For he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick and had got well again.
2Hezekiah was glad to see them. He showed them the house where he kept his precious things: the silver, the gold, the spices, and the costly ointment. He showed them all the house where his weapons were kept, and everything that was found among his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his kingdom, that Hezekiah did not show them.
3Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say? And where did they come from to you?" Hezekiah said, "They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon."
4Then Isaiah said, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen everything that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."
6"Look, the days are coming when everything in your house will be carried away to Babylon, together with all that your fathers have stored up until this day. Nothing will be left, says the LORD."
7"And they will take away some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will be the father of. They will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."