39:1 At that time {a} Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent {b} letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.
(a) This was the first king of Babylon, who overcame the Assyrians in the tenth year of his reign.
39:1-8 This chapter is the same as 2Ki 20:12-19.
