Chapter 38

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am 3291, bc 718

was Hezekiah 2Kgs 20:1-11; 2Chr 32:24; John 11:1-5; Acts 9:37; Phil 2:27-30

And Isaiah Isa 37:21, Isa 39:3-4

Set thine house in order Heb. Give charge concerning thy house, 2Sam 17:23; Eccl 9:10

for thou Jer 18:7-10; Jonah 3:4, Jonah 3:10


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turned Hezekiah's couch was probably placed in a corner, which is the place of honour in the East; in which, turning on either side, he must turn his face to the wall; by which he would withdraw himself from those attending him in his apartment. 1Kgs 8:30; Ps 50:15, Ps 91:15; Matt 6:6


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Remember Neh 5:19, Neh 13:14, Neh 13:22, Neh 13:31; Ps 18:20-27, Ps 20:1-3; Heb 6:10

I have Gen 5:22-23, Gen 6:9, Gen 17:1; 1Kgs 2:4; 2Chr 31:20-21; Job 23:11-12; Ps 16:8; Ps 32:2; John 1:47; 2Cor 1:12; 1John 3:21-22

a perfect 1Kgs 15:14; 1Chr 29:9, 1Chr 29:19; 2Chr 16:9, 2Chr 25:2; Ps 101:2, Ps 119:80

wept 2Sam 12:21-22; Ezra 10:1; Neh 1:4; Ps 6:8, Ps 102:9; Hos 12:4; Heb 5:7

sore Heb. with great weeping


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and say 2Sam 7:3-5; 1Chr 17:2-4

God Isa 7:13-14; 1Kgs 8:25, 1Kgs 9:4-5, 1Kgs 11:12-13, 1Kgs 15:4; 2Chr 34:3; Ps 89:3-4; Matt 22:32

I have heard 2Kgs 19:20; Ps 34:5-6; Luke 1:13; 1John 5:14-15

I have seen Ps 39:12, Ps 56:8, Ps 147:3; 2Cor 7:6; Rev 7:17

I will Job 14:5; Ps 116:15; Acts 27:24


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Isa 12:6, Isa 31:4, Isa 37:35; 2Chr 32:22; 2Tim 4:17


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Isa 38:22, Isa 7:11-14, Isa 37:30; Gen 9:13; Judg 6:17-22, Judg 6:37-39; 2Kgs 20:8-21


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I will bring Josh 10:12-14; 2Kgs 20:11; 2Chr 32:24, 2Chr 32:31; Matt 16:1

the sun dial Heb. the degrees by, or, with the sun, Or, as the Hebrew might be rendered, "the steps of Ahaz." The researches of curious travellers in Hindostan, observes Bp. Stock, have lately discovered in that country, three observatories of similar form, the most remarkable of which is to be seen within four miles of Delhi, the ancient capital of the Mogul empire. A rectangled triangle, whose hypotenuse is a staircase (apparently parallel to the axis of the earth), bisects a zone, or coping of a wall, which wall connects the two terminating towers at right and left. The coping itself is of a circular form, and accurately graduated, to mark, by the gnomon above, the sun's progress before and after noon.


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writing Isa 12:1-6; Exod 15:1-21; Judg 5:1-31; 1Sam 2:1-10; Ps 18:1 *title Ps 30:11-12, Ps 107:17-22, Ps 116:1-4, Ps 118:18-19; Jonah 2:1-9

he had Deut 32:39; 1Sam 2:6; Job 5:18; Hos 6:1-2; We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving song, which he penned by Divine direction, after his recovery. He might have used some of the Psalms of David his father, as he had appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David, 2Chr 29:30, but the occasion here was extraordinary. His heart being full of devout affections, he would not confine himself to the compositions he had, though of Divine inspiration, but offered up his praises in his own words. The Lord put a new song into his mouth. He put his thanksgiving into writing, that he might review it himself afterwards, for the reviving of the good impressions made upon him by the providential interference, and that it might be recommended to others also for their use upon the like occasion. 2Chr 29:30


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Isa 38:1; Job 6:11, Job 7:7, Job 17:11-16; 2Cor 1:9


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Job 35:14-15; Ps 6:4-5, Ps 27:13, Ps 31:22, Ps 116:8-9; Eccl 9:5-6


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is removed Job 7:7; Ps 89:45-47, Ps 102:11, Ps 102:23-24

as a Isa 1:8, Isa 13:20

have cut Job 7:6, Job 9:25-26, Job 14:2; Jas 4:14

he will cut Job 7:3-5, Job 17:1; Ps 31:22, Ps 119:23

with pining sickness or, from the thrum


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as a lion 1Kgs 13:24-26, 1Kgs 20:36; Job 10:16-17, Job 16:12-14; Ps 39:10, Ps 50:22, Ps 51:8; Dan 6:24; Hos 5:14; 1Cor 11:30-32


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a crane Job 30:29; Ps 102:4-7

I did mourn Isa 59:11; Ezek 7:16; Nah 2:7

mine eyes Ps 69:3, Ps 119:82, Ps 119:123, Ps 123:1-4; Lam 4:17

I am Ps 119:122, Ps 143:7

undertake for me or, ease me


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What Josh 7:8; Ezra 9:10; Ps 39:9-10; John 12:27

I shall 1Kgs 21:27

in the 1Sam 1:10; 2Kgs 4:27; Job 7:11, Job 10:1, Job 21:25


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Isa 64:5; Deut 8:3; Job 33:19-28; Ps 71:20; Matt 4:4; 1Cor 11:32; 2Cor 4:17; Heb 12:10-11


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for peace I had great bitterness or, on my peace came great bitterness, Job 3:25-26, Job 29:18; Ps 30:6-7

in love to my soul delivered it from the pit Heb. loved my soul from the pit, Ps 30:3, Ps 40:2, Ps 86:13, Ps 88:4-6; Jonah 2:6

thou hast cast Isa 43:25; Ps 10:2, Ps 85:2; Jer 31:34; Mic 7:18-19


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the grave Ps 6:5, Ps 30:9, Ps 88:11, Ps 115:17-18; Eccl 9:10

they that Num 16:33; Prov 14:32; Matt 8:12, Matt 25:46; Luke 16:26-31


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the living Ps 146:2; Eccl 9:10; John 9:4

the father Gen 18:19; Exod 12:26-27, Exod 13:14-15; Deut 4:9, Deut 6:7; Josh 4:21-22; Ps 78:3-6, Ps 145:4; Joel 1:3


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therefore Ps 9:13-14, Ps 27:5-6, Ps 30:11-12, Ps 51:15, Ps 66:13-15, Ps 145:2

to the stringed Ps 150:4; Hab 3:19


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For Isaiah 2Kgs 20:7; Mark 7:33; John 9:6


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What 2Kgs 20:8; Ps 42:1-2, Ps 84:1-2, Ps 84:10-12, Ps 118:18-19, Ps 122:1; John 5:14


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