Isaiah 38:22
in Isaiah 38And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”
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ASV
Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah?
KJV
Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?
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This verse in Isaiah 38
Commentary
8 notes on this verse(Verses 21, 22.) And Isaiah commanded them to take a lump of figs and apply it to the boil, and he would be healed. And Hezekiah said that the sign would be that he would go up to the house of the Lord. This should be read before Hezekiah's prayer, or Scripture, which we have just interpreted: for the poultice was applied to the wound first, and the sign of future healing was requested from him before he thanked the Lord for healing him.
This site's exposition
Prepare a lump of pressed figs
on Isaiah 38:21-22
The narrative resumes with the ordinary remedy Isaiah prescribed: Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover. Hezekiah's question, What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD, is answered in verses 7 and 8.
This site's exposition
go up to the house of the LORD
Matthew Henry notes that Hezekiah took it for granted that a restored king would go up to the temple with thank offerings. The house of the LORD was his first goal. Jesus later found the healed man of John 5 in the temple.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Second, Ezechias asks for a sign: and Ezechias had said: what shall be the sign? The Jews require signs: and the Greeks seek after wisdom (1 Cor 1:22).
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
It is taken for granted that if God would restore him to health he would immediately go up to the temple with his thank-offerings. There Christ found the impotent man whom he had healed, John
Hezekiah also had said,.... Unto Isaiah, as in 2Ki 20:8, what is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord? both of his health, and of his going up to the temple with thanksgiving for it; though the former is not here mentioned, as it is elsewhere; partly because it is supposed in the latter, for without that he could not have gone up to the temple; and partly because he was more solicitous for the worship and honour of God in his house, the for his health.
This is a chapter which will entertain the thoughts, direct the devotions, and encourage the faith and hopes of those that are confined by bodily distempers; it visits those that are visited with sickness.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Hezekiah also had said - What evidence or proof have I that I shall be restored, and permitted to go to the temple? The miracle on the sun-dial was performed in answer to this request, and as a demonstration that he should yet be permitted to visit the temple of God (see the note at Isa 38:7).
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֹּ֥אמֶר | vaiyomer | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ | chizkiyahu | Hezekiah | H2396 → | 127 times |
| מָ֣ה | mah | what? | H4100 → | 752 times |
| א֑וֹת | ʾot | [will be the] sign | H226 → | 80 times |
| כִּ֥י | ki | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֶעֱלֶ֖ה | ʾeeleh | I will go up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| בֵּ֥ית | beit | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ ס | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וַיֹּ֥אמֶרand he said
vaiyomerH559 →5305 times
חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּHezekiah
chizkiyahuH2396 →127 times
מָ֣הwhat?
mahH4100 →752 times
א֑וֹת[will be the] sign
ʾotH226 →80 times
כִּ֥יthat
kiH3588 →4482 times
אֶעֱלֶ֖הI will go up
ʾeelehH5927 →890 times
בֵּ֥ית[the] house of
beitH1004 →2046 times
יְהוָֽה׃ סYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 122:1I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
it leads to
- Psalms 84:10
For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
- Micah 4:2
And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that…
- Isaiah 2:3
And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that…
- Psalms 128:1
Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
- Psalms 84:1–2
How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts!
- Psalms 84:10
Through
John 5:14Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”
it leads to
- John 8:11
“No one, Lord,” she answered. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Now go and sin no more.”
- Leviticus 26:23–24
And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
- Psalms 118:18
The LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.
- John 8:11
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.