Isaiah 38

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:4

"Then came the word of Jehovah unto Isaiah, saying, Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, 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 I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city."The parallel account in 2 Kings 20:4 reveals that Isaiah left Hezekiah and was on the way to departing from the palace, being as far as the middle court, when the Word of... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:7

"And this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken: behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down."The account in 2Kings mentions that it was by the specific request of Hezekiah that this sign was given in preference to a sign in which the shadow on the dial would have advanced ten steps. We... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:9

"The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered from his sickness."As Cheyne said, "There is nothing to deny the authenicity of this psalm of Hezekiah, as Dillman and Delitzsch, among our latest great critics, agree."[13] The same author also called the psalm recorded here, "a peculiarly sweet and plaintive specimen of Hebrew psalmody."After recovering from his sickness, Hezekiah remembered his emotions and feelings as he lay upon what he believed would be his... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:10

"I said, In the noontide of my days, I shall go into the gates of Sheol;I am deprived of the residue of my years.I said, I shall not see Jehovah, even Jehovah in the land of the living:I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent;I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom:From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me."This is the first of four stanzas that are thought to... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:13

"I quieted my self until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones:From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward:O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety?"The big thing here is that even in the gates of death, Hezekiah asked that God would be his surety. The chattering and the moaning may refer to the incoherent speech of those who are delirious and the groans of those violently : read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:15

"What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it:I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.O Lord, by these things do men live;And wholly therein is the life of my spirit:Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.Behold, it was for my peace that 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."The thought here is not too clear, other than the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:18

"For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee:They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:The father to the children shall make known thy truth.Jehovah is ready to save me.Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instrumentsAll the days of our life in the house of Jehovah."The theme here is rejoicing over the recovery which came from the special blessing of the Lord. The language used in portions of... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:21

"Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover. Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah?"This injection of some pertinent fact into a narrative subsequently to its actual chronological occurrence is a typical feature of the Word of God from Genesis to Revelation. As an example, in Jonah, after the men cast lots and charged him with being the cause of the danger they were in, learned... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 38

CHAP. XXXVIII. Hezekiah, having received a message of death, by prayer hath his life lengthened. The sun goeth ten degrees backward for a sign of that promise: his song of thanksgiving. Before Christ 714. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 38:1

Isaiah 38:1. In those days, &c.— Though the sacred historian has placed this sickness immediately after the defeat and death of Sennacherib, yet it is evident from Isa 38:6 that it happened before that time. Hezekiah reigned in all twenty and nine years; he had reigned fourteen years when Sennacherib invaded him, and after his sickness he reigned fifteen years. Consequently this sickness happened in the very same year that the king of Assyria invaded Judaea; but the sacred historian thought... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:4

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:7

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:9

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:10

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:13

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:15

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:18

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 38:21

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 38

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 38:1

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