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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 20:3

How I have walked, etc.] In the absence of any complete belief in a future life, this world was held to be the only sphere within which God's moral governance of mankind displayed itself, length of days being regarded as the reward of righteousness, and a short life being thought to imply great guilt. Hence Hezekiah, with the prospect of an untimely death before him, appealed to God to bear witness to his uprightness. A perfect heart] i.e. a heart not divided between devotion to the Lord and devotion to other gods: cp. 1 Kings 8:61 and contrast 1 Kings 11:4.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 20:3. _I BESEECH THEE, O LORD_] Hezekiah knew that, although the words of Isaiah were delivered to him in an _absolute_ form, yet they were to be _conditionally_ understood, else he cou...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    REMEMBER NOW - The old covenant promised temporal prosperity, including length of days, to the righteous. Hezekiah, conscious of his faithfulness and integrity 2 Kings 18:3, ventures to expostulate (c...

  • 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

    WALKED. walked to and fro: i.e. habitually walked. A PERFECT. whole, or undivided. WEPT SORE. Hebrew "wept with. great weeping". wept bitterly. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6. See note on Gene...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now_ R.V. REMEMBER NOW, O LORD, I BESEECH THEE. The R.V. adopts the order of the words in Isaiah. It was only at a moment of great elation and prosperity that Hezeki...

  • 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

    _I BESEECH THEE, O LORD, REMEMBER NOW HOW I HAVE WALKED BEFORE THEE IN TRUTH AND WITH A PERFECT HEART, AND HAVE DONE THAT WHICH IS GOOD IN THY SIGHT. AND HEZEKIAH WEPT SORE._ Remember ... how I have...

  • 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

    REMEMBER NOW HOW I HAVE WALKED ... — Hezekiah deprecates an untimely death — the punishment of the wicked (Proverbs 10:27) — on account of his zeal for Jehovah and against the idols. As Thenius remark...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אָנָּ֣ה יְהוָ֗ה זְכָר ־נָ֞א אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁ֧ר הִתְ

  • 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

    I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a (b) perfect heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah (c) wept sore. (b) Meaning, wit...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Before thee. The saints of the old law frequently mention their good works, (Psalm vii. 9., &c., and 2 Esdras xiii. 14.) which is less common in those of the new. When God rewards our good works, he o...

  • 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...

  • 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. 3 2 Kings 20:1...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. Ver. 3. _I beseech thee,...

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

    _Remember how I have walked before thee in truth_ Sincerely, with an honest mind. I am not conscious to myself of any exorbitances, for which thou art wont to shorten men's days. _And Hezekiah wept 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

    I beseech Thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before Thee, in his entire life and actions, in truth and with a perfect heart, his worship of Jehovah had been without hypocrisy, and he had ear...

  • 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)...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SORE: _ Heb._ with a great weeping...

  • 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

    IN TRUTH, i.e. sincerely, with an honest mind, as the following words explain it. I have in some measure (human frailty excepted) kept the condition which thou didst require, 1 KINGS 8:25, and therefo...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 20:3 Remember H2142 (H8798) LORD H3068 pray H577 walked H1980 (H8694) before H6440 truth H571 loyal...

  • 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 20:3 PLEASE REMEMBER. The prayer is somewhat more self-centered than the one in 2 Kings 19:15, stressing the king’s own righteousness....

  • 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 John 3:21; 1 John 3:22; 1 Kings 11:4; 1 Kings 15:14; 1 Kings 2:4;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    In truth — Sincerely with an honest mind. I am not conscious to myself of any gross exorbitances, for which thou usest to shorten mens days. Wept — For that horror of death which is and was common to...

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