2 Kings 20:1-9

20:1

Hezekiah <02396> [A.M. 3291. B.C. 713. was Hezekiah.]

prophet <05030> [the prophet.]

household instructions <01004 06680> [Set thine house in order. Heb. Give charge concerning thine house.]

terminal .......... him .................... die <04191> [thou shalt die.]

20:2

turned <05437> [he turned.]

20:3

Remember <02142> [remember.]

<01980> [I have walked.]

faithfully <0571> [in truth.]

wholehearted <03824 08003> [a perfect heart.]

wept bitterly <01058 01419> [wept sore. Heb. wept with a great weeping.]

20:4

<02691> [court. or, city.]

20:5

back <07725> [Turn again.]

leader <05057> [the captain.]

God <0430> [the God.]

heard <08085> [I have heard.]

seen <07200> [I have seen.]

heal <07495> [I will heal.]

up <05927> [thou shalt go.]

20:6

add <03254> [I will add.]

shield <01598> [I will defend.]

20:7

Get .... cake ....... ordered <03947 01690> [Take a lump.]

ulcerated sore <07822> [the boil.]

The word {shechin,} from the Arabic {sachana,} to be hot, signifies an inflammatory tumour, or burning boil; and some think that Hezekiah's malady was a pleurisy; others, that it was the plague; and others, the elephantiasis, a species of leprosy, as one of the Hexapla versions renders in Job 2:7. A poultice of figs might be very proper to maturate a boil, or dismiss any obstinate inflammatory swelling; but we need not discuss its propriety in this case, because it was as much the means which God chose to bless for his recovery, as the clay which Christ moistened to anoint the eyes of the blind man; for in both cases, without Divine interposition the cure could not have been effected.

20:8

sign <0226> [What shall be.]

20:9

sign <0226> [This sign.]