Isaiah 38:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,

Isaiah 38:4 —

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

(vv. 1-5)

We may hence observe, among others, these good lessons:—1. That neither men’s greatness nor their goodness will exempt them from the arrests of sickness and death. Hezekiah, a mighty potentate on earth and a mighty favourite of Heaven, is struck with a disease, which, without a miracle, will certainly be mortal; and this in the midst of his days, his comforts, and usefulness. Lord, behold, he whom…

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

(vv. 4)

4. In 2Ki 20:4, the quickness of God’s answer to the prayer is marked, “afore Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, the word of the Lord came to him”; that is, before he had left Hezekiah, or at least when he had just left him, and Hezekiah was in the act of praying after having heard God’s message by Isaiah (compare Is 65:24; Psa 32:5; Da 9:21).