Isaiah 38:1
In those days was Chizkiyahu (Hezekiah) sick unto death. And HaNavi Yeshayah Ben Amotz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith Hashem, Set thine bais in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2Then Chizkiyahu (Hezekiah) turned his face toward the kir (wall), and davened unto Hashem,
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:23And when Achitophel saw that his etza (counsel, advice) was not followed, he saddled his chamor, and arose, and went home to his bais, to his town, and put his bais (household) in order, vayyekhanak (and he strangled, hanged himself), and died, and was buried in the kever aviv (tomb of his father).
2 Chronicles 32:24In those yamim Chizkiyah (Yechizkiyahu) became ill, to the point of mot, and davened unto Hashem, and He answered him, and He gave him a mofet. + 32:24 See 2Kgs 20:1-11
Isaiah 1:1The chazon (vision) of Yeshayah ben Amotz, which he saw concerning Yehudah and Yerushalayim in the yamim of Uziyahu, Yotam, Achaz, and Yechizkiyahu, melachim of Yehudah. 1
Isaiah 37:21Then Yeshayah Ben Amotz sent unto Chizkiyah, saying, Thus saith Hashem Elohei Yisroel, Whereas thou hast davened to Me against Sancheriv Melech Ashur;
Isaiah 39:3Then Yeshayah HaNavi came unto HaMelech Chizkiyah, and said unto him, What said these anashim? And from where came they unto thee? And Chizkiyah said, They are come from eretz rechokah (a far country) unto me, even from Babylon.
Jonah 3:4And Yonah began to enter into the city one dayʼs journey, and he cried out and preached, and said, Yet arba'im yamim (40 days), and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:1
This chapter proceeds in the history of Hezekiah. Here is, I. His sickness, and the sentence of death he received within himself, ver. 1 . II. His prayer in his sickness, ver. 2, 3 . III. The answer of peace which God gave to that prayer, assuring him that he should recover, that he should live fifteen years yet, that Jerusalem should be delivered from the king of Assyria, and that, for a sign to confirm his faith herein, the sun should go back ten degrees, ver. 4-8 . And this we read and opened before, 2 Kings… Read the whole commentary →