⁶ And the king responded and said to the man of God, “Please ^[a](A)appease the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored to me.” So ^(B)the man of God ^[b]appeased the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.

¹⁹ Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah actually put him to death? Did he not ^(A)fear the Lord and plead for the favor of the Lord, and ^(B)the Lord relented of the disaster which He had pronounced against them? But we are ^(C)committing a great evil against our own lives!”

²¹ The inhabitants of one city will go to another, saying, “Let’s go at once to ^(A)plead for the favor of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of armies; ^[a]I also will go.”