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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 38:10

Cutting off] RV 'noontide.'

11. See the Lord] Hezekiah is probably thinking of the Temple worship. The v. illustrates the gloomy conception of the Hebrews as to the state of man after death: cp. Isaiah 38:18.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I SAID - Probably the words ‘I said’ do not imply that he said or spoke this openly or audibly; but this was the language of his heart, or the substance of his reflections. IN THE CUTTING OFF OF MY DA...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEGRAVE. Hebrew. _Sheol._ App-35....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Hezekiah's thanksgiving for his recovery. This poem, which is not given in the parallel narrative in 2 Kings, must have been inserted here from an independent source. An external mark of the insertion...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _in the cutting off of my days_ R.V. IN THE NOONTIDE OF MY DAYS (lit. "in the stillness of my days"). The phrase has been variously interpreted; but the best sense is that given by the R.V., whether t...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I SAID, IN THE CUTTING OFF OF MY DAYS— _I said, while my days are cut off I shall depart; yea, even to the gates of the grave;—of sheol._ Vitringa. Respecting the place of departed souls, and the seve...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. PRAISE TEXT: Isaiah 38:9-20 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. 10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates o...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    38:10 meridian (b-5) Others, 'In the cutting off.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Hezekiah’s illness made him feel very depressed. (In other words, his inner feelings were deeply sad.) And this affected all of his life. Verses 10 and 18 Like many people at that time, Hezekiah tho...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I SAID IN THE CUTTING OFF OF MY DAYS... — The words have been very differently interpreted — (1) “in the _quietness,_” and so in the even tenor of a healthy life. As a fact, however, the complaint did...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֲנִ֣י אָמַ֗רְתִּי בִּ דְמִ֥י יָמַ֛י אֵלֵ֖כָה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • 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

    I said in the (g) cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the rest of my years. (c) At which time it was told to me, that I would die....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Hell. Sheol, or Hades, the region of the dead. (Challoner) --- He was afraid to die without issue. (St. Jerome; ver. 12.) --- Manasses was born three years later. (Calmet) --- The king would naturall...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    10._I said in the cutting off of my days. _This is a very melancholy song; for it contains complaints rather than prayers. Hence it is evident that he was oppressed by so great perplexity, that he was...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I SAID, IN THE CUTTING OFF OF MY DAYS,.... When he was told that he should die, and he believed he should; this he calls a "cutting off" in allusion to the weaver's web, Isaiah 38:12 and a cutting off...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. Ver. 10. _I said in the cutting off of my days._] When I looked upon myself as a...

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

    _I said_ Within myself; I concluded, _in the cutting off of my days_ When my days were cut off by the sentence of God, related Isaiah 38:1; _I shall go to the gates of the grave_ I perceive that I mus...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I said in the cutting off of my days, rather, in the tranquility of my days, at the time of his life and reign when he could look forward to an undisturbed enjoyment of his kingly position, I SHALL GO...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • 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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I SAID, to and within myself, I concluded it. IN THE CUTTING OFF OF MY DAYS; when my days were cut off by the sentence of God, related here, ISAIAH 38:1. I SHALL GO TO THE GATES OF THE GRAVE; I percei...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 38:10 said H559 (H8804) prime H1824 life H3117 go H3212 (H8799) gates H8179 Sheol H7585 deprived...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    GRAVE Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...

  • 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

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 1:9; Isaiah 38:1; Job 17:11; Job 6:11; Job 7:7...

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