Isaiah 38:21

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

20The LORD will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the LORD’s house.

22Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the LORD’s house?”

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Cross References

Mark 7:33He took him aside from the multitude privately and put his fingers into his ears; and he spat and touched his tongue.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:10-22

Hezekiah's Thanksgiving. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the Lord , even the Lord , in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will… Read the whole commentary →

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