2 Kings 20:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,

2 Kings 20:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 50:15
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Matthew 6:6
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
1 Kings 8:30
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
Isaiah 38:2-3
Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 twe…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. he turned his face to the wall--not like Ahab (1Ki 21:4), in fretful discontent, but in order to secure a better opportunity for prayer.