According to the chronologers, this is the next important event in the life of Hezekiah. It took place fifteen years before his death in 687, so his sickness and healing, as well as the visit of the Babylonian ambassadors, occurred in the year 702 B.C. The next year, the Assyrians returned and attacked Jerusalem. Did the Lord send this sickness to discipline Hezekiah because he compromised with the Assyrians? The record in
2 Kings 20:1–11