2 Kings 20:4-11
<02691> [court. or, city.]
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.]
add <03254> [I will add.]
shield <01598> [I will defend.]
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.
sign <0226> [What shall be.]
sign <0226> [This sign.]
called out .... Lord <07121 03068> [cried unto.]
made <07725> [he brought.]
steps .... stairs <04609> [dial. Heb. degrees.]
Isaiah 38:4-8
tell <0559> [and say.]
God <0430> [God.]
heard <08085> [I have heard.]
seen <07200> [I have seen.]
add <03254> [I will.]
make .............. then <07725> [I will bring.]
steps .... stairs ........... steps <04609 08121> [the sun dial. Heb. the degrees by, or, with the sun.]
Or, as the Hebrew might be rendered, "the steps of Ahaz." The researches of curious travellers in Hindostan, observes Bp. Stock, have lately discovered in that country, three observatories of similar form, the most remarkable of which is to be seen within four miles of Delhi, the ancient capital of the Mogul empire. A rectangled triangle, whose hypotenuse is a staircase, (apparently parallel to the axis of the earth,) bisects a zone, or coping of a wall, which wall connects the two terminating towers at right and left. The coping itself is of a circular form, and accurately graduated, to mark, by the gnomon above, the sun's progress before and after noon.
Isaiah 38:21-22
Isaiah <03470> [For Isaiah.]
sign <0226> [What.]
