1 Hezekiah, having received a message of death, by prayer has his life lengthened.
8 The sun goes ten degrees backward for a sign of that promise.
12 Berodach-baladan sending to visit Hezekiah, because of the wonder, has notice of his treasures.
14 Isaiah understanding thereof, foretells the Babylonian captivity.
20 Manasseh succeeds Hezekiah.

A.M. 3291. B.C. 713. was Hezekiah. 2Ch 32:24-26 Isa 38:1-20 Joh 11:1-5 Php 2:27,30

the prophet. 19:2,20

Set thine house in order. Heb. Give charge concerning thine house. 2Sa 17:23 Isa 38:1 *margins

thou shalt die. Jer 18:7-10 Jon 3:4-10

2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,

he turned. 1Ki 8:30 Ps 50:15 Isa 38:2,3 Mt 6:6

3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

remember. Ge 8:1 Ne 5:19 13:14,22,31 Ps 25:7 89:47,50 119:49 Isa 63:11

I have walked. 18:3-6 Ge 5:22,24 17:1 1Ki 2:4 3:6 Job 1:1,8 Lu 1:6

in truth. 2Ch 31:20,21 Ps 32:2 145:18 Jer 4:2 Joh 1:47 2Co 1:12 1Jo 3:21,22

a perfect heart. 1Ki 8:61 11:4 15:14 2Ch 16:9

wept sore. Heb. wept with a great weeping. 2Sa 12:21,22 Ps 6:6 102:9 Isa 38:14 Heb 5:7

4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

court. or, city. 4

5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.

Turn again. 2Sa 7:3-5 1Ch 17:2-4

the captain. Jos 5:14,15 1Sa 9:16 10:1 2Sa 5:2 2Ch 13:12 Heb 2:10

the God. 2Ch 34:3 Isa 38:5 55:3 Mt 22:32

I have heard. 19:20 Ps 65:2 66:19,20 Lu 1:13

I have seen. Ps 39:12 56:8 126:5 Re 7:17

I will heal. 7 Ex 15:26 De 32:39 Job 33:19-26 Ps 147:3 Jas 5:14,15

thou shalt go. 8 Ps 66:13-15,19,20 116:12-14 118:17-19 Isa 38:22 Joh 5:14

6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

I will add. Ps 116:15 Ac 27:24

I will defend. See on 19:34 2Ch 32:22 Isa 10:24

7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

Take a lump. 2:20-22 4:41 Isa 38:21

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.

8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?

What shall be. 5 19:29 Jud 6:17,37-40 Isa 7:11,14 38:22 Ho 6:2

9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?

This sign. Isa 38:7,8 Mt 16:1-4 Mr 8:11,12 Lu 11:29,30

10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

2:10 3:18 Isa 49:6 Mr 9:28,29 Joh 14:12

11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

cried unto. Ex 14:15 1Ki 17:20,21 18:36-38 Ac 9:40

he brought. Jos 10:12-14 2Ch 32:24,31 Isa 38:8

dial. Heb. degrees.

12 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

A.M. 3292. B.C. 712. Berodach-baladan. Isa 39:1-8

king. 2Ch 32:31

Babylon. Ge 10:10 11:9 Isa 13:1,19 14:4

sent letters. 2Sa 8:10 10:2

for he had heard. Isa 39:1

13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.

shewed. 2Ch 32:27 Isa 39:2

precious things. or, spicery. 1Ki 10:2,10,15,25

armour. or, jewels. Heb. vessels. there was nothing. 2Ch 32:25,26 Pr 23:5 Ec 7:20

14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.

came Isaiah. Isa 39:3-8

What said. 5:25,26 2Sa 12:7-15 2Ch 16:7-10 25:7-9,15,16 Ps 141:5 Pr 25:12 Jer 26:18,19 Am 7:12,13 Mr 6:18,19

a far country. De 28:49 Jos 9:6,9 Isa 13:5

15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.

All the things. 13 Jos 7:19 Job 31:33 Pr 28:13 1Jo 1:8-10

16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.

Hear. 7:1 1Ki 22:19 Isa 1:10 Am 7:16

17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

shall be carried. 24:13 25:13-15 Le 26:19 2Ch 36:10,18 Jer 27:21,22 52:17-19

18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

thy sons. 24:12 25:6 2Ch 33:11

they shall be. 'Fulfilled in Da. 1:3-7.'

19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?

Good. Le 10:3 1Sa 3:18 Job 1:21 Ps 39:9 La 3:22,39

It is not good, etc. or, Shall there not be peace and truth, etc. peace and truth. Es 9:30 Jer 33:6 Zec 8:19 Lu 2:10,14

20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

he made a pool. 2Ch 32:4,30,32 Ne 3:16 Isa 22:9-11

the book. 8:23 15:6,26 16:19 1Ki 14:19 15:7,23

21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

A.M. 3306. B.C. 698. slept. 21:18 1Ki 2:10 11:43 14:31 2Ch 26:23 32:33

Manasseh. 21:1