And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
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Gill's Exposition
And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah,.... Or "had said", (w) before the plaster of figs was directed to, or, however, laid on, and as soon as he was told he should be healed:
what shall be the sign that…
Barnes' Notes
A lump of figs - The usual remedy in the East, even at the present day, for ordinary boils. But such a remedy would not naturally cure the dangerous tumor or carbuncle from which Hezekiah suffered.…
Adam Clarke
Take a lump of figs - and laid it on the boil - We cannot exactly say in what Hezekiah's malady consisted. שחין shechin signifies any inflammatory tumour, boil, abscess, etc. The versions translate it…
The historian, having shown us blaspheming Sennacherib destroyed in the midst of the prospects of life, here shows us praying Hezekiah delivered in the midst of the prospects of death - the days of…
Cambridge Bible
Take a lump[R.V. cake] of figs Except here and in Isaiah 38. -cake" is the constant rendering of A.V. for this word. See 1Sa 25:18; 1Sa 30:12; 1Ch 12:40. The figs were closely pressed together for…