2 Kings 20:7
Good News Translation
Then Isaiah told the king's attendants to put on his boil a paste made of figs, and he would get well.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Isaiah said, “Bring a lump of figs. Let them take it and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover.”

Contemporary English Version
Then Isaiah said to the king's servants, "Bring some mashed figs and place them on the king's open sore. He will then get well."

New American Bible
Then Isaiah said, “Bring a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil for his recovery.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had brought it, and laid it upon his boil, he was healed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had brought it, and laid it upon his boil, he was healed.

Take a lump.

2 Kings 2:20-22 And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it. And when they had brought it, . . .

2 Kings 4:41 But he said: Bring some meal. And when they had brought it, he cast it into the pot, and said: Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was now no bitterness in the pot.

Isaiah 38:21 Now Isaiah had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and lay it as a plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed.

the boil.

Job 2:7 So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:

. A poultice of figs might be very proper to maturate a boil, or dismiss any obstinate inflammatory swelling; but we need not discuss its propriety in this case, because it was as much the means which God chose to bless for his recovery, as the clay which Christ moistened to anoint the eyes of the blind man; for in both cases, without Divine interposition the cure could not have been effected.

Context
Hezekiah's Illness and Recovery
6And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect this city for my own sake, and for David, my servant's sake. 7And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had brought it, and laid it upon his boil, he was healed.8And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord the third day?…
Cross References
2 Kings 20:6
And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect this city for my own sake, and for David, my servant's sake.

2 Kings 20:8
And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord the third day?

Isaiah 38:21
Now Isaiah had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and lay it as a plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed.

2 Kings 20:6
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