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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Isaiah 38:21

This was rather a sign appointed by God, than a natural means of the cure; for if it had a natural faculty to ripen a sore, yet it could never cure such a dangerous and pestilential disease, at least in so little time.

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See also Isaiah 38:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 38:21. _LET THEM TAKE A LUMP OF FIGS, C._] God, in effecting this miraculous cure, was pleased to order the use of means not improper for that end. "Folia, et, quae non maturuere, fici,...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR ISAIAH HAD SAID - In the parallel place in Kings the statement in these two verses is introduced before the account of the miracle on the sun-dial, and before the account of his recovery 2 Kings 2...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 38 Hezekiah's Sickness and Healing 1. _Isaiah's startling message (Isaiah 38:1)_ 2. _Hezekiah's prayer (Isaiah 38:2)_ 3. _The prayer heard and the sign (Isaiah 38:4)_ 4. The king's sorrow and...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 36-39. This section has been extracted from 2 Kings 18:13 to 2 Kings 20:19, and the Song of Hezekiah has been added. For an exposition see the notes on 2 K.; here we have simply to deal with th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Cf. 2 Kings 20:7-8. The verses are obviously out of their true places here. The pluperfects in the English Translation are ungrammatical (Driver, _Tenses_, pp. 84 ff.), and we must render AND ISAIAH S...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _lay_it _for a plaister_ Lit. RUB IT. _Lump_should be CAKE, as in R.V. Many commentators suppose that the malady from which Hezekiah suffered was the plague; and Gesenius explains that the appearance...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR ISAIAH HAD SAID, &C.— _Now Isaiah had said._ "It seems to me extremely probable, (says Dr. Mead,) that the king's disease was a fever, which terminated in an abscess: for, in cases of this kind, t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. PRESCRIPTION TEXT: Isaiah 38:21-22 21 Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover. 22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the si...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. LUMP OF FIGS - a round cake of figs pressed into a mass (). God works by means, th...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SICKNESS AND RECOVERY OF HEZEKIAH Continuation of the historical appendix to Isaiah's prophecies. The chapter is parallel to 2 Kings 20:1 (where see notes), but contains a considerable addition in the...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    A ‘boil’ would not itself cause death. But in those days a ‘boil’ would suggest the terrible disease called leprosy. And that would be a very serious matter (see Leviticus chapter 13). • Jesus healed...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 38 HEZEKIAH IS SERIOUSLY ILL V1 About that time, Hezekiah became very ill. He believe...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOR ISAIAH HAD SAID... — The direction implies some medical training on the part of Isaiah (see Note on Isaiah 1:6, and _Introduction_)_,_ such as entered naturally into the education of the prophet-p...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְשַׁעְיָ֔הוּ יִשְׂא֖וּ דְּבֶ֣לֶת תְּאֵנִ֑ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XI DRIFTING TO EGYPT 720-705 13. B.C. Isaiah 20:1; Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1 FROM 720, when chapter 11 m

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 4 JERUSALEM AND SENNACHERIB 701 B.C. INTO this fourth book we put all the rest of the prophecies of the Book of Isaiah, that have to do with the prophet's own time: Chapter s 1, 22 and 33, wi...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this chapter we have the story of the sickness of Hezekiah. That sickness would seem to have been intimately connected with the invasion of Sennacherib, for in Isaiah's message to Hezekiah that his...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and (z) lay [it] for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover. (z) Read (2 Kings 20:7)....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    21._And Isaiah said _Isaiah now relates what was the remedy which he prescribed to Hezekiah. Some think that it was not a remedy, because_figs _are dangerous and hurtful to _boils; _but that the pious...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 36, 37, 38, AND 39. Chapter s 36-39 relate the history of the invasion of Sennacherib, its result, and the sickness unto death of Hezekiah, which preceded it:...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR ISAIAH HAD SAID,.... Before the above writing was made, which ends in the preceding verse; for this and the following are added by Isaiah, or some other person, taken out of 2 Kings 20:7. The Sept...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay [it] for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. Ver. 21. _Let them take a lump of figs._] _Commenciatur hic usus medicinae._ The pa...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs_ See note on 2 Kings 20:7. _Hezekiah also had said_ Or, _for Hezekiah had said; What is the sign that I shall go up_ Namely, within three days, as is...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For Isaiah had said, at the tune when he had promised the king that he would recover from his illness, LET THEM TAKE A LUMP OF FIGS, a remedy often used to bring relief in case of swellings, but here...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Hezekiah's Hymn of Praise...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-22 We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving. It is well for us to remember the mercies we receive in sickness. Hezekiah records the condition he was in. He dwells upon this; I shall no more see the Lor...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 38:21 Isaiah H3470 said H559 (H8799) take H5375 (H8799) lump H1690 figs H8384 poultice H4799 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    FINAL CONCLUSIONS (ISAIAH 38:21). It would be a mistake to see these as comments as words casually added on with no real significance, and to pass over them too quickly. The first states how his heali...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Hezekiah's sickness and recovery in answer to prayer. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: Neither men's greatness nor goodness will exempt them from the arrests of sickness. If o...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 38:1. _Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die, and not live._ This burden of the Lord placed the prophet in a critical situation. God saw that nothing milder than this harsh and tremendou...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He shall recover_ CHRIST IN THE SICK ROOM I. The Holy Ghost shows us a king and ruler of men, a dweller in palaces, a possessor of all that money can obtain, a good man, a friend of God, laid low b...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION II.—HEZEKIAH'S ILLNESS, AND THE EMBASSY OF MERODACH-BALADAN (Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1.). EXPOSITION The present chapte

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not live (Isai...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 20:7; John 9:6; Mark 7:33...

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