Isaiah 38:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs See note on 2 Kings 20:7. Hezekiah also had said Or, for Hezekiah had said; What is the sign that I shall go up Namely, within three days, as is more fully related 2Ki 20:5; 2 Kings 20:8; to the house of the Lord? For thither he designed to go first, partly that he might pay his vows and thanksgivings to God, and partly that he might engage the people to praise God with him and for him.

Isaiah 38:21-22

21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?