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Isaiah 38:16
Isaiah 38:16
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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 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeIsaiah 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.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 38:1-22Isaiah 38:1-22 · The Pulpit CommentarySECTION II.—HEZEKIAH'S ILLNESS, AND THE EMBASSY OF MERODACH-BALADAN (Isaiah 38:1-22; Isaiah 39:1-8.).
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The present chapter is parallel with 2 Kings 20:1-11, but contains some marked differences from that…Isaiah 38:9-22Isaiah 38:9-22 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleWe have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving-song, which he penned, by divine
direction, after his recovery. He might have taken some of the psalms
of his father David, and made use of them for his purpose; he might…Isaiah 38:9-22Isaiah 38:9-22 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe song of Hezekiah.
It is a song of peculiar sweetness—from a literary point of view, characterized by great elegance; from a spiritual point of view, unfolding some deepest elements of Hebrew and of human pathos.…
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