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5Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 20:5

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Matthew Henry

(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 t...

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