Isaiah 38:1, Hezekiah, having received a message of death, by prayer has his life lengthened; Isaiah 38:8, The sun goes ten degrees backward, for a sign of that promise; Isaiah 38:9, His song of thanksgiving.
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Isaiah 38
Isaiah 38 — Overview
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Isaiah 38 — OverviewIsaiah 38 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter proceeds in the history of Hezekiah. Here is, I. His
sickness, and the sentence of death he received within himself, ver. 1.
II. His prayer in his sickness, ver. 2, 3. III. The answer of peace…Isaiah 38 — OverviewIsaiah 38 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter gives an account of Hezekiah's sickness, recovery, and thanksgiving on that account. His sickness, and the nature of it, and his preparation for it, as directed to by the prophet, Isa 38:1, his prayer to…Isaiah 38:1-8Isaiah 38:1-8 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleWe may hence observe, among others, these good lessons:--1. That
neither men's greatness nor their goodness will exempt them from the
arrests of sickness and death. Hezekiah, a mighty potentate on earth
and a…Isaiah 38:1Isaiah 38:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryIn those days. The illness of Hezekiah is fixed by Isaiah 38:5 (and 2 Kings 20:6) to the fourteenth year of his reign, or b.c. 714. The entire narrative of this chapter and the next is therefore thirteen or fourteen…Isaiah 38:1Isaiah 38:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe duty of men, in view of death, to set their house in order.
Nothing is more manifest than the duty of all men, in view of that departure which they know to impend over them as an absolute certainty, only doubtful…Isaiah 38:1Isaiah 38:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe strain of notice to die.
Satan is represented in the Book of Job as poetically describing man's clinging to life thus: "Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life." Usually death creeps on us…