In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
A.M.
2 Kings 20:1-11 In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And the prophet Isaiah …
2 Chronicles 32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed to the LORD: …
John 11:1-5 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of …
Acts 9:37 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom …
Philippians 2:27-30 For indeed he was sick near to death: but God had mercy on him; and …
and Isaiah
Isaiah 37:21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus said the …
Isaiah 39:3,4 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What …
set thine house in order. Heb. Give charge concerning thy house
2 Samuel 17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled …
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there …
for thou
Jeremiah 18:7-10 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning …
Jonah 3:4,10 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, …
Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
remember
Nehemiah 5:19 Think on me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done …
Nehemiah 13:14,22,31 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good …
Psalm 18:20-27 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to …
Psalm 20:1-3 The LORD hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob …
Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, …
I have
Genesis 5:22,23 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred …
Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect …
Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to …
1 Kings 2:4 That the LORD may continue his word which he spoke concerning me, …
2 Chronicles 31:20,21 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and worked that which …
Job 23:11,12 My foot has held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined…
Psalm 16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, …
Psalm 32:2 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in …
John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, Behold an Israelite …
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that …
1 John 3:21,22 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God…
a perfect
1 Kings 15:14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was …
1 Chronicles 29:9,19 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because …
2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth…
2 Chronicles 25:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not …
Psalm 101:2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will you come …
Psalm 119:80 Let my heart be sound in your statutes; that I be not ashamed.
wept
2 Samuel 12:21,22 Then said his servants to him, What thing is this that you have done? …
Ezra 10:1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and …
Nehemiah 1:4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and …
Psalm 6:8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard …
Psalm 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
Hosea 12:4 Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made …
Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh…
sore. Heb. with great weeping.
Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
and say
2 Samuel 7:3-5 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in your heart; for …
1 Chronicles 17:2-4 Then Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you…
God
Isaiah 7:13,14 And he said, Hear you now, O house of David; Is it a small thing …
1 Kings 8:25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my …
1 Kings 9:4,5 And if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity …
1 Kings 11:12,13 Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it for David your father's …
1 Kings 15:4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp …
2 Chronicles 34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began …
Psalm 89:3,4 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant…
Matthew 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? …
I have heard
2 Kings 19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus said the …
Psalm 34:5,6 They looked to him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed…
Luke 1:13 But the angel said to him, Fear not, Zacharias: for your prayer is …
1 John 5:14,15 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any …
I have seen
Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace …
Psalm 56:8 You tell my wanderings: put you my tears into your bottle: are they …
Psalm 147:3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
2 Corinthians 7:6 Nevertheless God, that comforts those that are cast down, comforted …
Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb which is in the middle of the throne shall feed them, …
I will
Job 14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with …
Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
Acts 27:24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar: and, see, …
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
I will bring
Joshua 10:12-14 Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered …
2 Kings 20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD: and he brought the shadow …
2 Chronicles 32:24,31 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed to the LORD: …
Matthew 16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired …
the sun dial. Heb. the degrees by, or, with the sun. Or, as the Hebrew might be rendered, 'the steps of Ahaz'. The researches of curious travellers in Hindostan, observes Bp. Stock, have lately discovered in that country, three observatories of similar form, the most remarkable of which is to be seen with four miles of Delhi, the ancient capital of the Mogul empire. A rectangled triangle, whose hypotenuse is a staircase, (apparently parallel to the axis of the earth,) bisects a zone, or coping of a wall, which wall connects the two terminating towers at right and left. The coping itself is of a circular form, and accurately graduated, to mark, by the gnomon above, the sun's progress before and after noon.
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
writing
Isaiah 12:1 And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though …
Exodus 15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to the LORD, …
Judges 5:1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
1 Samuel 2:1-10 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoices in the LORD, my horn …
Psalm 18:1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength.
Psalm 30:11,12 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off …
Psalm 107:17-22 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, …
Psalm 116:1-4 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications…
Psalm 118:18,19 The LORD has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over to death…
Jonah 2:1-9 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish's belly…
he had
Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, …
1 Samuel 2:6 The LORD kills, and makes alive: he brings down to the grave, and brings up.
Job 5:18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
Hosea 6:1,2 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will …
We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving song, which he penned by Divine direction, after his recovery. He might have used some of the Psalms of David his father, as he had appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David, but the occasion here was extraordinary. His heart being full of devout affections, he would not confine himself to the compositions he had, though of Divine inspiration, but offered up his praises in his own words. The Lord put a new song into his mouth. He put his thanksgiving into writing, that he might review it himself afterwards for the reviving of the good impressions made upon him by the providential interference, and that it might be recommended to others also for their use upon the like occasion.
2 Chronicles 29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites …
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.
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.
Job 35:14,15 Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; …
Psalm 6:4,5 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for your mercies' sake…
Psalm 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD …
Psalm 31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless …
Psalm 116:8,9 For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and …
Exodus 9:5,6 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall …
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 cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
is removed
Job 7:7 O remember that my life is wind: my eye shall no more see good.
Psalm 89:45-47 The days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with …
Psalm 102:11,23,24 My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass…
as a
Isaiah 1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a …
Isaiah 13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelled in from …
have cut
Job 7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 9:25,26 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good…
Job 14:2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a …
James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your …
he will cut
Job 7:3-5 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are …
Job 17:1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Psalm 31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless …
Psalm 119:23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but your servant did meditate …
with pining sickness. or, from the thrum
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
as a lion
1 Kings 13:24-26 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and …
1 Kings 20:36 Then said he to him, Because you have not obeyed the voice of the …
Job 10:16,17 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show …
Job 16:12-14 I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me …
Psalm 39:10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.
Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, …
Psalm 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which you have broken …
Daniel 6:24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused …
Hosea 5:14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house …
1 Corinthians 11:30-32 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep…
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
a crane
Job 30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Psalm 102:4-7 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to …
I did mourn
Isaiah 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, …
Ezekiel 7:16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains …
Nahum 2:7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and …
mine eyes
Psalm 69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I …
Psalm 119:82,123 My eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me…
Psalm 123:1-4 To you lift I up my eyes, O you that dwell in the heavens…
Lamentations 4:17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching …
I am
Psalm 119:122 Be surety for your servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from …
undertake for me. or, ease me.
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
what
Joshua 7:8 O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies!
Ezra 9:10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken …
Psalm 39:9,10 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it…
John 12:27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from …
I shall
1 Kings 21:27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his …
in the
1 Samuel 1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, and wept sore.
2 Kings 4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by …
Job 7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish …
Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; …
Job 21:25 And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure.
O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
Isaiah 64:5 You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember …
Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with …
Job 33:19-28 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, and the multitude of his …
Psalm 71:20 You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall quicken …
Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread …
1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should …
2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us …
Hebrews 12:10,11 For they truly for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; …
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
for peace I had great bitterness. or, on my peace came great bitterness
Job 3:25,26 For the thing which I greatly feared is come on me, and that which …
Job 29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Psalm 30:6,7 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved…
in love to my soul delivered it from the pit. Heb. loved my soul from the pit.
Psalm 30:3 O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept …
Psalm 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, …
Psalm 86:13 For great is your mercy toward me: and you have delivered my soul …
Psalm 88:4-6 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that …
Jonah 2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars …
thou hast cast
Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, …
Psalm 10:2 The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken …
Psalm 85:2 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all …
Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man …
Micah 7:18,19 Who is a God like to you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the …
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
the living
Psalm 146:2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises to my God …
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there …
John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night …
the father
Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household …
Exodus 12:26,27 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What …
Exodus 13:14,15 And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What …
Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you …
Deuteronomy 6:7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk …
Joshua 4:21,22 And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children …
Psalm 78:3-6 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us…
Psalm 145:4 One generation shall praise your works to another, and shall declare …
Joel 1:3 Tell you your children of it, and let your children tell their children, …
The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
what
2 Kings 20:8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD …
Psalm 42:1,2 As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God…
Psalm 84:1,2,10-12 How amiable are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!…
Psalm 118:18,19 The LORD has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over to death…
Psalm 122:1 I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
John 5:14 Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, …
