2 Kings 20:4 BSB — MannaFest

2 Kings 20:4

Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And it came to pass, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle part of the city, that the word of Jehovah came to him, saying,

KJV

And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

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Commentary

4 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court,.... Of the king's palace, which is called the other court within the porch, 1Ki 7:8 so it is according to the marginal reading, which we follow; but the textual reading is, "the middle city"; Jerusalem was divided into three parts, and this was the middle part Isaiah was entering into: but before he did, so it was: that the word of the Lord came to him, saying; as follows.

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

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Prayers that have much life and affection in them are in a special manner pleasing to God. God exceeds his prayers; he only begged that God would remember his integrity, but God here promises (1.) To restore him from his illness: I will heal thee. Diseases are his servants; as they go where he sends them, so they come when he remands them.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Into the middle court - הצר hatstser, the court. This is the reading of the Masoretic Keri: העיר haair, “of the city,” is the reading of the text, and of most MSS.; but the versions follow the Keri.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֣י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
יְשַׁעְיָ֔הוּ	ye.sha'.Ya.hu	Isaiah	H3470 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יָצָ֔א	ya.Tza'	he had gone out	H3318 →
חָצֵ֖ר	ha.'ir	[the] court	H2691 →
הַתִּֽיכֹנָ֑ה	ha.ti.kho.Nah	<the> middle	H8484 →
וּדְבַר־	u.de.var-	and [the] word of	H1697 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
הָיָ֥ה	ha.Yah	it came	H1961 →
אֵלָ֖יו	'e.Lav	to him	H413 →
לֵאמֹֽר׃	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →

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
1 Kings 7:8
And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 8:11
  Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king…
- 1 Kings 3:1
  Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the…
- 1 Kings 9:24
  As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.
Through
2 Kings 22:14
So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived…
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 34:22
  So Hilkiah and those the king had designated went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in…
- Judges 4:4
  Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
- 2 Kings 10:22
  And Jehu said to the keeper of the wardrobe, “Bring out garments for all the servants of Baal.” So he brought out garments for them.
- Luke 2:36
  There was also a prophetess named Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, who was well along in years. She had been married for seven years,
- Micah 6:4