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
9 His song of thanksgiving.

A.M. 3291 B.C. 718
was Hezekiah 2Ki 20:1-11 2Ch 32:24 Joh 11:1-5 Ac 9:37 Php 2:27-30

and Isaiah Isa 37:21 39:3,4

set thine house in order. Heb. Give charge concerning thy house 2Sa 17:23 Ec 9:10

for thou Jer 18:7-10 Jon 3:4,10

2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,

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. 1Ki 8:30 Ps 50:15 91:15 Mt 6:6

3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, 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 Ne 5:19 13:14,22,31 Ps 18:20-27 20:1-3 Heb 6:10

I have Ge 5:22,23 6:9 17:1 1Ki 2:4 2Ch 31:20,21 Job 23:11,12 Ps 16:8 32:2 Joh 1:47 2Co 1:12 1Jo 3:21,22

a perfect 1Ki 15:14 1Ch 29:9,19 2Ch 16:9 25:2 Ps 101:2 119:80

wept 2Sa 12:21,22 Ezr 10:1 Ne 1:4 Ps 6:8 102:9 Ho 12:4 Heb 5:7

sore. Heb. with great weeping.

4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,

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5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

and say 2Sa 7:3-5 1Ch 17:2-4

God Isa 7:13,14 1Ki 8:25 9:4,5 11:12,13 15:4 2Ch 34:3 Ps 89:3,4 Mt 22:32

I have heard 2Ki 19:20 Ps 34:5,6 Lu 1:13 1Jo 5:14,15

I have seen Ps 39:12 56:8 147:3 2Co 7:6 Re 7:17

I will Job 14:5 Ps 116:15 Ac 27:24

6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

Isa 12:6 31:4 37:35 2Ch 32:22 2Ti 4:17

7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;

Isa 38:22 7:11-14 37:30 Ge 9:13 Jud 6:17-22,37-39 2Ki 20:8

8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

I will bring Jos 10:12-14 2Ki 20:11 2Ch 32:24,31 Mt 16:1

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 with 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.

9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

writing Isa 12:1 Ex 15:1 Jud 5:1 1Sa 2:1-10 Ps 18:1 30:11,12 107:17-22 116:1-4 118:18,19 Jon 2:1-9

he had De 32:39 1Sa 2:6 Job 5:18 Ho 6:1,2

We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving song, which he penned by Divine direction, after his recovery. He might have used some of the Psalms of David his father, as he had appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David, but the occasion here was extraordinary. His heart being full of devout affections, he would not confine himself to the compositions he had, though of Divine inspiration, but offered up his praises in his own words. The Lord put a new song into his mouth. He put his thanksgiving into writing, that he might review it himself afterwards for the reviving of the good impressions made upon him by the providential interference, and that it might be recommended to others also for their use upon the like occasion. 2Ch 29:30

10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

Isa 38:1 Job 6:11 7:7 17:11-16 2Co 1:9

11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Job 35:14,15 Ps 6:4,5 27:13 31:22 116:8,9 Ex 9:5,6

12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

is removed Job 7:7 Ps 89:45-47 102:11,23,24

as a Isa 1:8 13:20

have cut Job 7:6 9:25,26 14:2 Jas 4:14

he will cut Job 7:3-5 17:1 Ps 31:22 119:23

with pining sickness. or, from the thrum

13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

as a lion 1Ki 13:24-26 20:36 Job 10:16,17 16:12-14 Ps 39:10 50:22 51:8 Da 6:24 Ho 5:14 1Co 11:30-32

14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

a crane Job 30:29 Ps 102:4-7

I did mourn Isa 59:11 Eze 7:16 Na 2:7

mine eyes Ps 69:3 119:82,123 123:1-4 La 4:17

I am Ps 119:122 143:7

undertake for me. or, ease me.

15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

what Jos 7:8 Ezr 9:10 Ps 39:9,10 Joh 12:27

I shall 1Ki 21:27

in the 1Sa 1:10 2Ki 4:27 Job 7:11 10:1 21:25

16 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

Isa 64:5 De 8:3 Job 33:19-28 Ps 71:20 Mt 4:4 1Co 11:32 2Co 4:17 Heb 12:10,11

17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

for peace I had great bitterness. or, on my peace came great bitterness Job 3:25,26 29:18 Ps 30:6,7

in love to my soul delivered it from the pit. Heb. loved my soul from the pit. Ps 30:3 40:2 86:13 88:4-6 Jon 2:6

thou hast cast Isa 43:25 Ps 10:2 85:2 Jer 31:34 Mic 7:18,19

18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

the grave Ps 6:5 30:9 88:11 115:17,18 Ec 9:10

they that Nu 16:33 Pr 14:32 Mt 8:12 25:46 Lu 16:26-31

19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

the living Ps 146:2 Ec 9:10 Joh 9:4

the father Ge 18:19 Ex 12:26,27 13:14,15 De 4:9 6:7 Jos 4:21,22 Ps 78:3-6 145:4 Joe 1:3

20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

therefore Ps 9:13,14 27:5,6 30:11,12 51:15 66:13-15 145:2

to the stringed Ps 150:4 Hab 3:19

21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

for Isaiah 2Ki 20:7 Mr 7:33 Joh 9:6

22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?

what 2Ki 20:8 Ps 42:1,2 84:1,2,10-12 118:18,19 122:1 Joh 5:14