Isaiah 38:19 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 38:19

The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

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ASV

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.

KJV

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 19) Living, the living himself will confess to you, as I do today. The father will make your truth known to the children. The living, the living themselves will confess to you, just as I do today. And this confession is set forth for praise. For he does not confess his own crimes, but gives thanks to God; and there is no beautiful praise on the mouth of a sinner (Sirach 15). And when Hell and death do not confess or praise God, on the contrary, life and the living glorify the Lord.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

The living, the living - An emphatic or intensive form of expression, as in Isa 38:11, Isa 38:17. Nothing would express his idea but a repetition of the word, as if the heart was full of it. The father to the children - One generation of the living to another. The father shall have so deep a sense of the goodness of God that he shall desire to make it known to his children, and to perpetuate the memory of it in the earth.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

He probably, also, hints at his own desire to live until he should have a child, the successor to his throne, to whom he might make known and so perpetuate the memory of God's truth. truth--faithfulness to His promises; especially in Hezekiah's case, His promise of hearing prayer.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of Second Kings and Second Chronicles. Isa 38:9 is the heading or inscription.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
חַ֥י	chai	[the] living	H2416 →
חַ֛י	chai	[the] living	H2416 →
ה֥וּא	hu'	he	H1931 →
יוֹדֶ֖ךָ	yo.De.kha	he gives thanks to you	H3034 →
כָּמ֣וֹנִי	ka.Mo.ni	as I	H3644 →
הַיּ֑וֹם	hai.Yom	this day	H3117 →
אָ֣ב	'av	a father	H1 →
לְבָנִ֔ים	le.va.Nim	to children	H1121 →
יוֹדִ֖יעַ	yo.Di.a'	he makes known	H3045 →
אֶל־	'el-	concerning	H413 →
אֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃	'a.mi.Te.kha	faithfulness your	H571 →

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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
Deuteronomy 4:9
Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 11:19
  Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 6:7
  And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Psalms 78:3–8
  that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
- Genesis 18:19
  For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that…
- Deuteronomy 32:46
  he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
Through
Deuteronomy 6:7
And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
leads to
- Ephesians 6:4
  Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Genesis 18:19
For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 4:9–10
  Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Timothy 3:4–5
  An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.

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06About Isaiah

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Where the connections lead

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About Isaiah