8And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.
Turn 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.
And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
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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