Going Back

Ok. So Zahava recently posted information about Perek Lamed Tes and suggested that someone do Lamed Ches. So I will to the best of my ability.

At the very beginning of Perek Lamed Ches, Chizkiyahu is so sick that he is going to die. Yeshayahu HaNavi came to see him. Yeshayahu does not try to give Chizkiyahu hope that he would recover or even try to pray for his health to return. Instead, Yeshayahu truned to Chizkiyahu and said that he should put his affairs in order and make sure everything was taken care of because he would surely die. In response to what Yeshayahu tells him, Chizkiyahu "turns his face to the wall" and davened to HaShem, though he does not beg forgiveness from HaShem for his sins. We will see that this is the right response to make, because HaShem will add fifteen years to his life.

HaShem comes to Yeshayahu and tells him to tell Chizkiyahu that He heard the tefilla of Chizkiyahu and will add 15 years to his life and that He will deliver him and his city out of the hands of Ashur and He will defend the city. This seems to show us that the story is out of order in the Navi because we already learned that HaShem made it so that Sancherev left the Jews and was killed when he went back home.

HaShem will give Chizkiyahu a sign: He will turn the shadow on the sundial back ten degrees (metaphorically turning back time). This is a strange sign for HaShem to give, because all the signs that we ahve learned about so far have been natural. This sign is blatantly unnatural.

Yeshayahu gets better but he is still unsatisfied. He complains that everything is taken away from him: his land is destroyed so he no longer has that. The harder he tries to protect everything, the more it hurts him. He is davening to HaShem. He then begins to praise HaShem saying that he did many sins and everything, but HaShem, out of love and pity for his soul, delivered it from the pit of corruption.

I am a little confused here and I might not have gotten all of it right, but I wanted to get it down to get other opinions and corrections if I messed something up.