2 Kings 20:3 BSB — MannaFest

2 Kings 20:3

“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Remember now, O Jehovah, 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.

KJV

I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now 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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Remember now - The old covenant promised temporal prosperity, including length of days, to the righteous. Hezekiah, conscious of his faithfulness and integrity 2Ki 18:3-6, ventures to expostulate (compare also 2Ki 21:1 note). According to the highest standard of morality revealed up to this time, there was nothing unseemly in the self vindication of the monarch, which has many parallels in the Psalms of David (Psa 7:3-10; Psa 18:19-26; Psa 26:1-8, etc.).

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Cyril of Jerusalem

Catechetical Lecture 2:15 (386)

Would you know the power of repentance? Would you understand this strong weapon of salvation and the might of confession? By confession Hezekiah routed 185,000 of the enemy. That was important, but it was little compared with what shall be told. The same king's repentance won the repeal of the sentence God had passed on him. For when he was sick, Isaiah said to him, "Give charge concerning your house, for you shall die and not live." What expectation was left? What hope of recovery was there, when the prophet said, "For you shall die"?

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Wept - For that horror of death which is and was common to men, especially, in the times of the Old Testament, when the grace of God in Christ was not so fully manifested, as now it is: and, for the distracted condition in which the church and state were then likely to be left, through the uncertainty of the succession to the crown.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אָנָּ֣ה	'a.Nah	I beg you	H577 →
יְהוָ֗ה	Yah.weh	O Yahweh	H3068 →
זְכָר־	ze.khor-	remember	H2142 →
נָ֞א	na'	please	H4994 →
אֵ֣ת	'et	<obj.>	H853 →
אֲשֶׁ֧ר	'a.Sher	this:	H834 →
הִתְהַלַּ֣כְתִּי	hit.ha.Lakh.ti	I have walked about	H1980 →
לְפָנֶ֗יךָ	le.fa.Nei.kha	<to> before you	H6440 →
בֶּֽאֱמֶת֙	be.'e.Met	in faithfulness	H571 →
וּבְלֵבָ֣ב	u.ve.le.Vav	and with a heart	H3824 →
שָׁלֵ֔ם	sha.Lem	complete	H8003 →
וְהַטּ֥וֹב	ve.ha.Tov	and the good	H2896 →
בְּעֵינֶ֖יךָ	be.'ei.Nei.kha	in view your	H5869 →
עָשִׂ֑יתִי	'a.Si.ti	I have done	H6213 →
וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ	vai.Ye.vek	and he wept	H1058 →
חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ	chiz.ki.Ya.hu	Hezekiah	H2396 →
בְּכִ֥י	be.Khi	weeping	H1065 →
גָדֽוֹל׃ ס	ga.Dol	great	H1419 →

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

The walk

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.

Through
Nehemiah 5:19
Remember me favorably, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.
leads to
- Nehemiah 13:31
  I also arranged for contributions of wood at the appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, with favor.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Nehemiah 13:14
  Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 106:4
  Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
Through
Nehemiah 13:14
Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.
leads to
- Nehemiah 13:22
  Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 122:6–9
  Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you prosper.
- Hebrews 6:10
  For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
- 2 Chronicles 31:20–21
  So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the LORD his God.
Through
Nehemiah 13:22
Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according…
leads to
- Nehemiah 12:30
  After the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.