20:4 Isaiah was still in the middle courtyard when the Lord told him,1
2 Kings 20:7
Context 20:7 Isaiah ordered, “Get a fig cake.” So they did as he ordered2 and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered.3
[20:4]1tcHeb “and Isaiah had not gone out of the middle courtyard, and the word of the Lord came to him, saying.” Instead of “courtyard” (חָצֵר, khatser), the marginal reading, (Qere), the Hebrew consonantal text (Kethib) has הָעִיר (ha’ir), “the city.”