Isaiah 38:5 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 38:5

“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

BSB

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ASV

Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

KJV

Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (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.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Hippolytus of Rome

Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments (235)

When Hezekiah, king of Judah, was still sick and weeping, there came an angel, and said to him: "I have seen thy tears, and I have heard thy voice. Behold, I add unto thy time fifteen years. And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord: Behold, I turn back the shadow of the degrees of the house of thy father, by which the sun has gone down, the ten degrees by which the shadow has gone down," so that day be a day of thirty-two hours.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

The God of David thy father - David is mentioned here, probably, because Hezekiah had a strong resemblance to him 2Ki 18:3, and because a long and happy reign had been granted to David; and also because the promise had been made to David that there should not fail a man to sit on his throne (see the note at Isa 37:35).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

God of David thy father--God remembers the covenant with the father to the children (Ex 20:5; Ps 89:28, 29). tears-- (Ps 56:8). days . . . years--Man's years, however many, are but as so many days (Ge 5:27).

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הָל֞וֹךְ	ha.Lokh	go	H1980 →
וְאָמַרְתָּ֣	ve.'a.mar.Ta	and you will say	H559 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
חִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ	chiz.ki.Ya.hu	Hezekiah	H2396 →
כֹּֽה־	koh-	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֤ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהֵי֙	'e.lo.Hei	[the] God of	H430 →
דָּוִ֣ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
אָבִ֔יךָ	'a.Vi.kha	ancestor your	H1 →
שָׁמַ֙עְתִּי֙	sha.Ma'.ti	I have heard	H8085 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
תְּפִלָּתֶ֔ךָ	te.fi.la.Te.kha	prayer your	H8605 →
רָאִ֖יתִי	ra.'I.ti	I have seen	H7200 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
דִּמְעָתֶ֑ךָ	dim.'a.Te.kha	tear[s] your	H1832 →
הִנְנִי֙	hi.Ni	here I	H2005 →
יוֹסִ֣ף	yo.Sif	he will add	H3254 →
עַל־	'al-	to	H5921 →
יָמֶ֔יךָ	ya.Mei.kha	days your	H3117 →
חֲמֵ֥שׁ	cha.Mesh	fif-	H2568 →
עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה	'es.Reh	teen	H6240 →
שָׁנָֽה׃	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →

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
Psalms 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
leads to
- Psalms 34:18
  The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
- Job 5:18
  For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- Jeremiah 33:6
  Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- Luke 4:18
  “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight…
- Isaiah 61:1
  The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty…
Through
Revelation 7:17
For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
leads to
- John 7:37–38
  On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Psalms 36:8–9
  They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
- John 4:14
  But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

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06About Isaiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Isaiah