In those days, &c.— Though the sacred historian has placed this sickness immediately after the defeat and death of Sennacherib, yet it is evident from Isaiah 38:6 that it happened before that time. Hezekiah reigned in all twenty and nine years; he had reigned fourteen years when Sennacherib invaded him, and after his sickness he reigned fifteen years. Consequently this sickness happened in the very same year that the king of Assyria invaded Judaea; but the sacred historian thought proper to defer the account of it, till he had finished the history of Sennacherib. Schultens reads ill, instead of sick unto death. Compare Isaiah 38:21.
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Isaiah 38:1
1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.