Isaiah 38:21

And Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and let them press it over the boil, that he may recover.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

20Yahweh, [was willing] to save me,—Therefore, on my stringed instruments, will we play—All the days of our life By the house of Yahweh.

22And Hezekiah had said—What is the sign—that I shall go up unto the house of Yahweh?

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Cross References

Mark 7:33And, taking him away from the multitude apart, he thrust his fingers into his ears, and, spitting, 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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