¹⁸ “Some of your descendants – who come from you, whom you father – will be taken away,^(A) and they will become eunuchs^[a] in the palace of the king of Babylon.” ’^(B)

¹⁹ Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, ‘The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good,’^(C) for he thought, ‘Why not, if there will be peace and security during my lifetime? ’

⁷ “Some of your descendants – who come from you, whom you father – will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” ’

⁸ Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, ‘The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good,’ for he thought: There will be peace and security during my lifetime.^(A)