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Isaiah 38:4

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And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,

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Then came the word of Jehovah to Isaiah, saying,

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Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,

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This verse in Isaiah 38

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah · Written before 420.

(Verses 4-6) And the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying: Go and tell Hezekiah: Thus says the Lord God of David, your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your days, and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will protect it. The history, which is read consecutively in the volume of Kings, is referred to in a seemingly backwards order, as if it were a prophetic account.

This site's exposition

the word of the LORD came to Isaiah

on Isaiah 38:4-6

The sentence is reversed before Isaiah has left the palace, and the answer comes from the LORD, the God of your father David. The years are counted, I will add fifteen years. The same word joins the king's life to the city's safety, I will deliver you and this city.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Isaiah · Written before 1274.

proposed

774. And the word of the Lord came to Isaiah. Here the promise of healing is set out. And first, he sets out the hearing of the prayer, and the word of the Lord came, before he left the middle of the court (2 Kgs …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah,.... Before he had got out into the middle court, 2Ki 20:4, saying, as follows:

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Then came the word of the Lord - In the parallel place in 2Ki 20:4, it is said, ‘And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the Lord came unto him.’ That is, the message of God name to Isaiah before he had left Hezekiah; or as soon as he had offered his prayer. This circumstance is omitted by Isaiah on the revision of his narrative which we have before us. But there is no contradiction.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

In 2Ki 20:4, the quickness of God's answer to the prayer is marked, "afore Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him"; that is, before he had left Hezekiah, or at least when he had just left him, and Hezekiah was in the act of praying after having heard God's message by Isaiah (compare Isa 65:24;

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The words behind it

6 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַֽיְהִי֙and it came

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • דְּבַר־[the] word of

    devar-H1697 →1440 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶֽל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יְשַׁעְיָ֖הוּIsaiah

    yesha'yahuH3470 →39 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Isaiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Isaiah: the study guide →Read Isaiah 38 →

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); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.

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