2 Kings 20:7

lump. cake, or plaister.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A lump of figs - The usual remedy in the East, even at the present day, for ordinary boils. But such a remedy would not naturally cure the danger...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Isaiah said, Take a (f) lump of figs. And they took and laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered. (f) He declares that though God can heal withou...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Sickness of Hezekiah. This is related in the parallel passage, Isaiah 38, in a much abbreviated form, save that it adds the prayer of Hezekiah afte...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. Take a lump of figs - and laid it on the boil - We c...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hezekiah's Sickness and Recovery 1. In those days] The incidents related in this chapter probably took place before Sennacherib's invasion, for...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A lump of figs ] A plaster of figs is known from other sources to have been used as a remedy for boils, but since Hezekiah was 'sick unto death' (v....
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

In Isaiah these two verses are given at the end of the narrative; a position in which they are obviously out of place. Probably some copyist, after a...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

HEZEKIAH'S SICKNESS, AND THE EMBASSY FROM BABYLON 2 Kings 20:1-19 "Thou hast loved me out of the pit of nothingness," - Isaiah 38:17 (A.V, m...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Shadow Turned Back on Life's Dial 2 Kings 20:1-11 What a contrast between Hezekiah and the Apostle Paul! To the great Christian hero, death...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this chapter we have the account of the last days of Hezekiah. From a severe sickness he was delivered in answer to prayer and by the intervention...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We can hardly say on this occasion which to admire most, the want of faith in Hezekiah, in asking a sign, or the abundant grace of the Lord in granti...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Isaiah said, take a lump of figs ,.... Not moist figs, but a cake of dried figs, as the word used signifies, and so the less likely to have any...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered. Ver. 7. Take a lump of figs. ] This poultice was...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Take a lump of figs Though the deliverance was certainly promised, yet means must be used, and those suitable. The figs would help to ripen the bil...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

FIFTEEN YEARS ADDED TO HEZEKIAH'S LIFE (vv.1-11) "In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death" (v.1). This took place about the time that Ass...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hezekiah's Sickness and Recovery. B. C. 713....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Take a lump of figs: though the deliverance was certainly promised, yet means must be used, and those suitable; for this hath naturally a power of...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hezekiah Becomes Mortally Ill But Is Healed By Isaiah In Answer To Prayer ( 2 Kings 20:1-7 ). Hezekiah's illness is now mentioned, not because it...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

HEZEKIAH’S SICKNESS AND RECOVERY CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 2 Kings 20:1 . In those days was Hezekiah sick —The Assyrian invasion occurre...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Kings 20:1 . In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LO...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 20:1 . In those days; the year after Hezekiah's deliverance from the Assyrians, and the fifteenth of his reign. 2 Kings 20:11 . He brou...
The Biblical Illustrator

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. The blessing of sickness A Christian man of intense business enterprise and activity was laid aside...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hezekiah's Sickness
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Isaiah, having returned to the palace according to the command of the Lord, said, Take a lump, a pressed mass, of figs. And they took and laid...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 2:20-22 ; 2 Kings 4:41 ; Isaiah 38:21 ; Job 2:7

⁷ And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

Related Commentaries of 2 Kings 20:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 20:7