Standard 8 · Lesson 2
Hezekiah’s Sickness and Healing
Reading Portion
II Kgs. 20:1-11
Lesson Content
1. Hezekiah was sick unto death (II Kgs.20:1).
2. The prophet Isaiah came to Hezekiah. Isaiah declared the message of God to Hezekiah. Hezekiah’s sorrow (II Kgs.20:1-3).
3. The Lord’s answer — fifteen years added (II Kgs.20:4-6).
4. When a lump of figs was laid on the boil, he recovered (II Kgs.20:7).
5. Hezekiah asked for a sign — the shadow returned ten degrees backward in the dial of Ahaz (II Kgs.20:8-11).
Moral
Like Hezekiah, the children of God should seek only God for their healing when they fall sick.
Memory Verse
“Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
James 5:14-16