Isaiah 38:1-8
Hezekiah <02396> [A.M. 3291. B.C. 718. was Hezekiah.]
Isaiah <03470> [And Isaiah.]
instructions .... household <01004 06680> [Set thine house in order. Heb. Give charge concerning thy house.]
illness ............................. die <04191> [for thou.]
turned <05437> [turned.]
Hezekiah's couch was probably placed in a corner, which is the place of honour in the East; in which, turning on either side, he must turn his face to the wall; by which he would withdraw himself from those attending him in his apartment.
Remember <02142> [Remember.]
<01980> [I have.]
wholehearted <08003> [a perfect.]
wept bitterly <01058> [wept.]
<01419> [sore. Heb. with great weeping.]
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.
