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3The LORD will strengthen{H8799)} him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make{H8804)} all his bed in his sickness.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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. …
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick. …
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. …
And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)In these verses we have, I. God’s promises of succour and comfort to those that consider the poor; and, 1. We may suppose that David makes mention of these with application either, (1.) To his friends, who were kind to him, and very considerate of his case, now that he was in affliction: Blessed is he that considers poor David. Here and there he met with one that sympathized with him, and was conc…
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