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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

2 Kings 20:2

He turned his face to the wall - Contrast 1 Kings 21:4. Ahab turned in sullenness, because he was too angry to converse; Hezekiah in devotion, because he wished to pray undisturbed.

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See also 2 Kings 20:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. HEZEKIAH'S ILLNESS, RECOVERY, FAILURE, AND DEATH CHAPTER 20 _ 1. Hezekiah's illness and recovery (2 Kings 20:1; 2 Chronicles 32:24)_ 2. Hezekiah's failure (2 Kings 20:12;...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    SICKNESS OF HEZEKIAH. This is related in the parallel passage, Isaiah 38, in a much abbreviated form, save that it adds the prayer of Hezekiah after his recovery. Isaiah 38 omits 2 Kings 20:4 (Isaiah...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HE. Some codices, with four early printed editions, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "Hezekiah". PRAYED. See note on 2 Kings 20:15. See his references to this in his "Songs of the degrees" (Psalms 120:1;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Then he turned his face to the wall_ He was in deep sorrow, and would pray without being observed. Ahab did the like, but it was in childish petulance (1 Kings 21:4). If Manasseh was the eldest son o...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 378 HEZEKIAH’S APPEAL TO GOD 2 Kings 20:2. _Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, saying, I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in tru...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. HEZEKIAH'S PERSONAL CRISIS 20:1-19 The chronological placement of the episode related in chapter 20 is problematic. That the events of this chapter are earlier than the crushing defeat of Sennach...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN HE TURNED HIS FACE TO THE WALL, AND PRAYED UNTO THE LORD, SAYING,_ Turned his face to the wall. Not like Ahab (see the notes at 1 Kings 21:4 for an account of the position of beds), in fretful...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HEZEKIAH'S SICKNESS AND RECOVERY 1. In those days] The incidents related in this chapter probably took place _before_ Sennacherib's invasion, for (_a_) the deliverance from the Assyrians is still futu...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 20 HEZEKIAH’S ILLNESS V1 During that time, Hezekiah became ill. He almost died. The *prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, wen...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN HE TURNED HIS FACE_._ — And he turned his face round (1 Kings 21:4). Hezekiah did so to avoid being disturbed in his prayer; and perhaps because grief instinctively seeks a hiding-place....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּסֵּ֥ב אֶת ־פָּנָ֖יו אֶל ־הַ קִּ֑יר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    HEZEKIAH'S SICKNESS, AND THE EMBASSY FROM BABYLON 2 Kings 20:1 "Thou hast loved me out of the pit of nothingness," - Isaiah 38:17 (A.V, margin) "See the shadow of the dial In the lot of every one...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE SHADOW TURNED BACK ON LIFE'S DIAL 2 Kings 20:1 What a contrast between Hezekiah and the Apostle Paul! To the great Christian hero, death seemed infinitely desirable. He was ready to be offered; i...

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

    In this chapter we have the account of the last days of Hezekiah. From a severe sickness he was delivered in answer to prayer and by the intervention of the prophet. He again manifested weakness durin...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then he turned his face to the (a) wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying, (a) That his mind might not be troubled....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Wall, towards the temple; (Chaldean, &c.) or that he might be less distracted, and indulge his grief without restraint._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Hezekiah had learnt by experience the efficacy of prayer, and he therefore hath recourse to it again. But what I wish the Reader to notice with me in this prayer of the king of Judah is, that he turne...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz" (2 Kings 19:1-37). He goes to Je...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _HEZEKIAH’S PRAYER_ ‘He turned his face to the wall and prayed unto the Lord.’ 2 Kings 20:2 Hezekiah is reckoned as one of the three perfect kings of Judah, the other two being David and Josiah. Hi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We find here again in a figure the principle with which Israel's deliverance, and that of all men, is connected-a principle pointed out in Elisha, and accomplished in Jesus. Hezekiah is raised as from...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    Ver. 2 2 Kings 20:1...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying, Ver. 2. _Then he turned his face to the wall._] Not so much out of fear of death, - though nature at death will have a bout with...

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

    _Then he turned his face to the wall_ As he lay in his bed. He could not retire to his closet; but he retired as well as he could; he turned from the company to converse with God. When we cannot be so...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Hezekiah hauing receiued a message of death, by prayer hath his life lengthned. 8 The [HEZEKIAH SICKE.] Sunne goeth tenne degrees backward, for a signe of that promise. 12 Berodach Baladan sendi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then he turned his face to the wall, in order to commune with the Lord without interference and disturbance, AND PRAYED UNTO THE LORD, SAYING,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Hezekiah's Sickness...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    FIFTEEN YEARS ADDED TO HEZEKIAH'S LIFE (vv.1-11) "In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death" (v.1). This took place about the time that Assyria captured the fortified cities of Judah (ch.18:13)...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-11 Hezekiah was sick unto death, in the same year in which the king of Assyria besieged Jerusalem. A warning to prepare for death was brought to Hezekiah by Isaiah. Prayer is one of the best prepar...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HE TURNED HIS FACE TO THE WALL; either because the temple lay that way; or rather, that by turning his face from the company he might intimate his desire of privacy, and so might with more freedom and...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 20:2 turned H5437 (H8686) face H6440 wall H7023 prayed H6419 (H8691) LORD H3068 saying H559 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HEZEKIAH BECOMES MORTALLY ILL BUT IS HEALED BY ISAIAH IN ANSWER TO PRAYER (2 KINGS 20:1). Hezekiah's illness is now mentioned, not because it was important in itself, but because in different ways it...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    2 Kings 20:1. _In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Hezekiah's illness and recovery. CHARACTERS: God, Hezekiah, Isaiah, Berodach-baladan. CONCLUSION: Neither greatness nor goodness can exempt us from sickness, yet often when the death sente...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Kings 20:1. _In those days;_ the year after Hezekiah's deliverance from the Assyrians, and the fifteenth of his reign. 2 Kings 20:11. _He brought the shadow ten degrees backward._ Signs of the truth...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death._ THE BLESSING OF SICKNESS A Christian man of intense business enterprise and activity was laid aside by sickness. He who never would intermit his labours...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 20:2 HEZEKIAH TURNED HIS FACE TO THE WALL. Hezekiah is in distress and wants to be left alone. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    HEZEKIAH’S SICKNESS AND RECOVERY CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 20:1. IN THOSE DAYS WAS HEZEKIAH SICK—The Assyrian invasion occurred in the fourteenth year of his reign (2 Kings 18:13), and...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 20:1 ILLNESS OF HEZEKIAH AND EMBASSY OF MERODACH-BALADAN. HEZEKIAH'S DEATH. The writer proceeds to relate an illness and a recovery of Hezekiah, which happened about the midd

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in those days Hezekiah was very sick (2 Kings 20:1). Actually he was dying. And Isaiah came to him, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Set your house in order; for you're going to die, and not live...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 8:30; Isaiah 38:2; Isaiah 38:3; Matthew 6:6; Psalms 50:15...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Turned his face — As he lay in his bed. He could not retire to his closet, but he retired as well as he could, turned from the company, to converse with God....

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