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Hezekiah’s Life Extended

1 In athose days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: b‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’ ”  
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord,
3 and said, a“Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a1 loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your bsight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.  
4 And the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying,
5 “Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years.
6 I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and aI will defend this city.” ’  
7 And this is athe sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing which He has spoken:  
8 “Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.” So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 38:3

He mentions his past religious consistency, not as a boast or a ground for justification; but according to the Old Testament dispensation, wherein temporal rewards (as long life, etc., Exodus 20:12) followed legal obedience, he makes his religious conduct a plea for asking the prolongation of his life.

walked—Life is a journey; the pious "walk with God" (Genesis 5:24; I Kings 9:4).

perfect—sincere; not absolutely perfect, but aiming towards it (Matthew 5:45); single-minded in walking as in the presence of God (Genesis 17:1). The letter of the Old Testament legal righteousness was, however, a standard very much below the spirit of the law as unfolded by Christ (Mat. 5:20-48; II Corinthians 3:6, II Corinthians 3:14, II Corinthians 3:17).

wept sore—JOSEPHUS says, the reason why he wept so sorely was that being childless, he was leaving the kingdom without a successor. How often our wishes, when gratified, prove curses! Hezekiah lived to have a son; that son was the idolater Manasseh, the chief cause of God's wrath against Judah, and of the overthrow of the kingdom (II Kings 23:26-27).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 38:3:

Daniel 4:27
Matthew 5:8

 

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