- Bible
- Isaiah
- Chapter 38
- Verse 21
For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
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Commentary
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Gill's Exposition
Hezekiah also had said,.... Unto Isaiah, as in Kg2 20:8,
what is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord? both of his health, and of his going up to the temple with thanksgiving for it;…
Barnes' Notes
For Isaiah had said - In the parallel place in Kings the statement in these two verses is introduced before the account of the miracle on the sun-dial, and before the account of his recovery 2Ki…
We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving-song, which he penned, by divine direction, after his recovery. He might have taken some of the psalms of his father David, and made use of them for his purpose;…
Cf. 2Ki 20:7-8. The verses are obviously out of their true places here. The pluperfects in the English Translation are ungrammatical (Driver, Tenses, pp. 84 ff.), and we must render And Isaiah said ……