21For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
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And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. …
And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-22)We have here Hezekiah’s thanksgiving-song, which he penned, by divine direction, after his recovery. He might have taken some of the psalms of his father David, and made use of them for his purpose; he might have found many very pertinent ones. He appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David , 2 Chron. 29:30. But the occasion here was extraordinary, and, his heart being full of…
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