Isaiah 38:21-22 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 38:9-22

We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving-song, which he penned, by divine direction, after his recovery. He might have taken some of the psalms of his father David, and made use of them for his purpose; he might have found many very pertinent ones. He appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David, 2 Chron. 29:30. But the occasion here was extraordinary, and, his heart being full of devout affections, he would not confine himself to the compositions he had, though of divine... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 38:21

For Isaiah had said ,.... Before the above writing was made, which ends in the preceding verse; for this and the following are added by Isaiah, or some other person, taken out of 2 Kings 20:7 . The Septuagint version adds, "to Hezekiah"; but the speech seems rather directed to some of his servants, or those that were about him: let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover ; which was done, and he did accordingly recover. Aben Ezra, Jarchi,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 38:22

Hezekiah also had said ,.... Unto Isaiah, as in 2 Kings 20:8 , what is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord ? both of his health, and of his going up to the temple with thanksgiving for it; though the former is not here mentioned, as it is elsewhere; partly because it is supposed in the latter, for without that he could not have gone up to the temple; and partly because he was more solicitous for the worship and honour of God in his house, the for his health. The Syriac... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 38:21

Let them take a lump of figs, etc. - God, in effecting this miraculous cure, was pleased to order the use of means not improper for that end. " Folia, et, quae non maturuere, fici, strumis illinuntur omnibusque quae emollienda sunt discutiendave ." - Plin. Nat. Hist. 23:7. " Ad discutienda ea, quae in corporis parte aliqua coierunt, maxime possunt-ficus arida ," etc. - Celsus, 5:11. See the note on 2 Kings 20:7 ; (note). Philemon Holland translates the passage as a medical man:... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 38:1-22

SECTION II .— HEZEKIAH 'S ILLNESS , AND THE EMBASSY OF MERODACH - BALADAN ( Isaiah 38:1-22 ; Isaiah 39:1-8 .). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 38:9-22

The song of Hezekiah. It is a song of peculiar sweetness—from a literary point of view, characterized by great elegance; from a spiritual point of view, unfolding some deepest elements of Hebrew and of human pathos. I. THE CONTEMPLATION OF DEATH . It was in middle life , in the "noon-tide of his days," that he had to face the dark gates of Sheol. "Midway in life, as to Dante, came his peril of death." It has been said that there is a peculiar melancholy in middle life.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 38:22

Hezekiah also had said ; literally, and Hezekiah said. Our translators, both in this verse and at the commencement of Isaiah 38:21 , have endeavoured to conceal the awkwardness of the nexus , or rather want of nexus , with what precedes, by a modification of the rendering. The true sense is brought out by the proceeding, which is, however, a little arbitrary. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 38:21

For Isaiah had said - In the parallel place in Kings the statement in these two verses is introduced before the account of the miracle on the sun-dial, and before the account of his recovery 2 Kings 20:7-8. The order in which it is introduced, however, is not material.Let them take a lump of figs - The word used here (דבלה debēlâh) denotes “a round cake” of dried figs pressed together in a mass 1 Samuel 25:18. Figs were thus pressed together for preservation, and for convenience of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 38:22

Hezekiah also had said - What evidence or proof have I that I shall be restored, and permitted to go to the temple? The miracle on the sun-dial was performed in answer to this request, and as a demonstration that he should yet be permitted to visit the temple of God (see the note at Isaiah 38:7). read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 38:21-22

Isaiah 38:21-22. For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs See note on 2 Kings 20:7. Hezekiah also had said Or, for Hezekiah had said; What is the sign that I shall go up Namely, within three days, as is more fully related 2Ki 20:5 ; 2 Kings 20:8; to the house of the Lord? For thither he designed to go first, partly that he might pay his vows and thanksgivings to God, and partly that he might engage the people to praise God with him and for him. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 38:9-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 38:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 38:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 38:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 38:1-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 38:9-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 38:22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 38:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 38:22

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 38:21-22

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