2 Kings 20:5-8 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 20:1-11

The historian, having shown us blaspheming Sennacherib destroyed in the midst of the prospects of life, here shows us praying Hezekiah delivered in the midst of the prospects of death?the days of the former shortened, of the latter prolonged. I. Here is Hezekiah's sickness. In those days, that is, in the same year in which the king of Assyria besieged Jerusalem; for he reigning reigned? in all twenty-nine years, and surviving this fifteen years, this must be in his fourteenth year, and so was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 20:5

Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people ,.... The king of them, as the Targum: thus saith the Lord God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears ; See Gill on Isaiah 38:5 . behold, I will heal thee ; instantly, miraculously; and none but God could heal him, his disease being in its kind mortal, and he had been told from the Lord that he should die: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord : the temple, to give thanks... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 20:6

And I will add unto thy days fifteen years ,.... See Gill on Isaiah 38:5 . and I will deliver thee, and this city, out of the hand of the king of Assyria ; by which it appears that this sickness and recovery were before the destruction of the Assyrian army: and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake : for the sake of his honour and glory in the temple, and the service of it, that were in Jerusalem, and for the sake of his promise to David and his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 20:7

And Isaiah said, take a lump of figs ,.... Not moist figs, but a cake of dried figs, as the word used signifies, and so the less likely to have any effect in curing the boil: and they took, and laid it on the boil, and he recovered ; made a plaster of it, and laid it on the ulcer, and it was healed. Physicians observe F21 Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 3. p. 620. Vid. Levin. Lemnii Herb. Bibl. Explicat. c. 19. p. 60. , that as such like inflammations consist in a painful extension... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 20:8

And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah ,.... Or "had said", F23 ויאמר "dixerat autem", V. L. Vatablus. before the plaster of figs was directed to, or, however, laid on, and as soon as he was told he should be healed: 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 ? not that he disbelieved the promise of God, or doubted of a cure, but this he requested for the confirmation of his faith; which good men sometimes asked, when... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 20:6

I will add unto thy days fifteen years - This is the first and only man who was ever informed of the term of his life. And was this a privilege! Surely no. If Hezekiah was attached to life, as he appears to have been, how must his mind be affected to mark the sinking years! He knew he was to die at the end of fifteen years; and how must he feel at the end of every year, when he saw that so much was cut off from life? He must necessarily feel a thousand deaths in fearing one. I... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 20:7

Take a lump of figs - and laid it on the boil - We cannot exactly say in what Hezekiah's malady consisted. שחין shechin signifies any inflammatory tumour, boil, abscess, etc. The versions translate it sore, wound, and such like. Some think it was a pleurisy; others, that it was the plague; others, the elephantiasis; and others, that it was a quinsey. A poultice of figs might be very proper to maturate a boil, or to discuss any obstinate inflammatory swelling. This Pliny... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 20:8

What shall be the sign - He wished to be fully convinced that his cure was to be entirely supernatural; and, in order to this, he seeks one miracle to prove the truth of the other, that nothing might remain equivocal. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 20:1-11

The illness and recovery of Hezekiah. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 20:1-11

Hezekiah's sickness. Every changing scene of life is depicted for us in the Bible. Whatever our circumstances may be, we can get some guidance, help, or comfort from that treasure-house of wisdom and experience. We have here— I. A SOLEMN MESSAGE . "Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live." 1. It was a solemn message for Hezekiah . His kingdom seemed now to be securely established. God had helped him against the Philistines, and had overthrown them. He was... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 20:1-11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 20:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 20:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 20:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 20:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 20:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 20:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 20:8

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 20:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 20:1-11

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