All things bear record · 2 Kings

2 Kings 20

1 witness of Christ here, and 1 further echo from the reading.

Jehovah

Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. 2 Kings 20:5–6

Jehovah, the premortal Christ, tells a dying king He has heard his prayer, seen his tears, and will heal him. The Healer who notices tears is the same Lord who later healed the sick in Galilee.

AttestedJehovah — the LORDHe speaks in the first persona messenger speaking for Him

How we know: Jehovah is the premortal Christ (Abraham 1:16; D&C 110:3–4)

  • a parallel account in Isaiah 38:4-6 — Same message in Isaiah.
  • the same title in 2 Kings 19:34 — Same promise to defend the city for "my servant David's sake."

Resurrection

Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. 2 Kings 20:5–8

A king sentenced to die is given new life and rises to the Lord's house on the third day. The text does not call it a type, but the pattern softly echoes Christ rising on the third day.

A readingEchoAn echo of Him
  • a type of what is in Luke 24:46 — It behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day.