2 Kings 20:19 BSB — MannaFest

2 Kings 20:19

But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?”

BSB

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ASV

Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, Is it not so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?

KJV

Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Good is the word ... - The language is, according to some, that of a true spirit of resignation and humility; according to others, that of a feeling of relief and satisfaction that the evil was not to come in his day. Such a feeling would be but natural, and though not according to the standard of Christian perfectness, would imply no very great defect of character in one who lived under the old Dispensation. Peace and truth - Rather, “peace and continuance.” The evils threatened were war and the dissolution of the kingdom.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

On Jacob and the Blessed Life, Book 1, Chapter 8.36 (397)

Surely the just Hezekiah did not rejoice that the disaster of the captivity had fallen on his children, but he could not oppose the will of the Lord, and so he received the Lord's commands with patience like a humble servant. Thus it happens that one could judge that merit and virtue could be evident even in captivity. For Jeremiah was not less happy in captivity, nor was Daniel, nor Ezra, nor were Ananias and Azariah and Misael less happy than if they had not fallen into captivity.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But, after the destruction of Sennacherib, presents were brought him from various quarters, out of respect to a king who, by his faith and prayer, saved his country; and besides, it is by no means improbable that from the corpses in the Assyrian camp, all the gold and silver he had paid might be recovered.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
חִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙	chiz.ki.Ya.hu	Hezekiah	H2396 →
אֶֽל־	'el-	to	H413 →
יְשַֽׁעְיָ֔הוּ	ye.sha'.Ya.hu	Isaiah	H3470 →
ט֥וֹב	Tov	[is] good	H2896 →
דְּבַר־	de.var-	[the] word of	H1697 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
דִּבַּ֑רְתָּ	di.Bar.ta	you have spoken	H1696 →
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
הֲל֛וֹא	ha.Lo'	¿ not	H3808 →
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
שָׁל֥וֹם	sha.Lom	peace	H7965 →
וֶאֱמֶ֖ת	ve.'e.Met	and stability	H571 →
יִהְיֶ֥ה	yih.Yeh	it will be	H1961 →
בְיָמָֽי׃	ve.ya.Mai	in days my	H3117 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I…
leads to
- Exodus 19:22
  Even the priests who approach the LORD must consecrate themselves, or the LORD will break out against them.”
- Isaiah 49:3
  He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel, in whom I will display My glory.”
- Leviticus 21:6
  They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the LORD the offerings made by fire, the food of their God, they must be…
- Numbers 20:12
  But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that…
- 1 Samuel 2:30
  Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it…
Through
Psalms 39:9
I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
leads to
- Job 2:10
  “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Zechariah 8:19
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of…
leads to
- Jeremiah 39:2
  And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.
- Zechariah 8:16
  These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About 2 Kings

Where the connections lead

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Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About 2 Kings