7And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
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For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him. …
But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.
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 t…
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