Isaiah 38:19 - Exposition

The living . Those who still enjoy the light of day. The repetition is emphatic, and has the force of "the living, and the living only. " The father to the children . Hezekiah may, or may not, have had children himself at the time. Manasseh was not born; but he may have had daughters, or even other sons, who did not survive him. He is not, however, perhaps, thinking of his own ease.