Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 38

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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.

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, "This is what the LORD says: 'Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.'"

Isaiah 38:1 · BSB

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Heb. Give charge concerning thy house

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Isaiah 38:2

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

Isaiah 38:2 · BSB

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Hezekiah's couch was probably placed in a corner , which is the place of honour in the East; in which , turning on either side , he must turn his face to the wall; by which he would withdraw himself from those attending him in his apartment

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Isaiah 38:3

saying, "Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Isaiah 38:3 · BSB

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sore Heb. with great weeping

Isaiah 38:4

And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,

Isaiah 38:4 · BSB

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Isaiah 38:5

"Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: 'I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Isaiah 38:5 · BSB

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Isaiah 38:6

And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.

Isaiah 38:6 · BSB

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Isaiah 38:7

This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:

Isaiah 38:7 · BSB

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Isaiah 38:8

I will make the sun's shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.'" So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.

Isaiah 38:8 · BSB

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the sun dial Heb. the degrees by , or , with the sun , Or , as the Hebrew might be rendered , "the steps of Ahaz." The researches of curious travellers in Hindostan , observes Bp. Stock , have lately discovered in that country , three observatories of similar form , the most remarkable of which is to be seen within four miles of Delhi , the ancient capital of the Mogul empire. A rectangled triangle , whose hypotenuse is a staircase . apparently parallel to the axis of the earth bisects a zone , or coping of a wall , which wall connects the two terminating towers at right and left. The coping itself is of a circular form , and accurately graduated , to mark , by the gnomon above , the sun's progress before and after noon.

Isaiah 38:9

This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:

Isaiah 38:9 · BSB

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  • Deuteronomy 32:39
  • 1 Samuel 2:6
  • Job 5:18
  • Hosea 6:1
  • Hosea 6:2 We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving song , which he penned by Divine direction , after his recovery. He might have used some of the Psalm of David his father , as he had appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David
  • 2 Chronicles 29:30 but the occasion here was extraordinary. His heart being full of devout affections , he would not confine himself to the compositions he had , though of Divine inspiration , but offered up his praises in his own words. The Lord put a new song into his mouth. He put his thanksgiving into writing , that he might review it himself afterwards , for the reviving of the good impressions made upon him by the providential interference , and that it might be recommended to others also for their use upon the like occasion
  • 2 Chronicles 29:30

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Isaiah 38:10

I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”

Isaiah 38:10 · BSB

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Isaiah 38:11

I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.

Isaiah 38:11 · BSB

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Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.

Isaiah 38:12 · BSB

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with pining sickness or , from the thrum

Isaiah 38:13

I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.

Isaiah 38:13 · BSB

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Isaiah 38:14

I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”

Isaiah 38:14 · BSB

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undertake for me or , ease me

Isaiah 38:15

What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

Isaiah 38:15 · BSB

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Isaiah 38:16

O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.

Isaiah 38:16 · BSB

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Isaiah 38:17

Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Isaiah 38:17 · BSB

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or , on my peace came great bitterness

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Heb. loved my soul from the pit

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Isaiah 38:18

For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:18 · BSB

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Isaiah 38:19

The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:19 · BSB

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Isaiah 38:20

The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.

Isaiah 38:20 · BSB

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Isaiah 38:21

Now Isaiah had said, "Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover."

Isaiah 38:21 · BSB

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Isaiah 38:22

And Hezekiah had asked, "What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?"

Isaiah 38:22 · BSB

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In the wider web10 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Quotations Isaiah 38:1 → 2 Chronicles 32:24, Isaiah 38:1-8 → 2 Kings 20:1-11, Isaiah 38:21 → 2 Kings 20:7, Isaiah 38:21-22 → 2 Kings 20:7-8
Allusions Isaiah 38:1-20 → 2 Chronicles 32:24-26, Isaiah 38:21-22 → 2 Kings 20:1-11
Echoes Isaiah 38:1 → 2 Chronicles 32:31, Isaiah 38:1-20 → 2 Chronicles 32:31
Trajectories
Hezekiah (Faithful Reformer King)
Chiasms
Shaped Isaiah 38:1–22
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