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Let us not be too particular or dwell too long in our recapitulation of such sins as are gone by and are irremediable; for these regrets, however natural, are useless, and beyond a certain degree injurious. We must learn to live here on earth by the measures and qualities of heaven, in fellowship with saints and angels, and with the ever-blessed Trinity, before we can think to find our bliss in the kingdom of God. See 2 Kings 20:1-2, 2 Chronicles 32:24 {See Trapp on "2 Kings 20:1"} {See Trapp on "2 Kings 20:2"} {See Trapp on "2 Chronicles 32:24"}. Even Jesus wept at the loss of his friend.
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W. Evans, Parochial Sermons, vol. It would also, give him time to have a son to follow after him as king. Give charge concerning thy house, (72) or, to thy house. Thorough restitution is essential to prove that our repentance is genuine, and so also is sincere forgiveness of our enemies.
6 I will also rescue you and this city from the hands of the king of Assyria.
Hezekiah is about 39 years of age when this happens to him. 2012. Men practice evasion, even though death is at hand, and eagerly seek the means of escape; and, therefore, that Hezekiah may not look around him as if he were uncertain, he is twice informed that he must die.
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It was not thought of as weakness for a man to cry at the time of "Commentary on Isaiah 38:1". âI shall not seeâ: Hezekiah feared that death would terminate his fellowship
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thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back
It should be done tenderly, and with affection; but it should be done faithfully. Hezekiah.
This direction is twofold.
God is good for His Word. יא אָמַרְתִּי לֹא־אֶרְאֶה יָהּ יָהּ בְּאֶרֶץ הַחַיִּים לֹא־אַבִּיט אָדָם עוֹד עִם־יוֹשְׁבֵי חָדֶל׃. the sincerity of the prayer. knows God has heard his prayer and answered it. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/gsb/isaiah-38.html.
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39 We must next search and see whether there is anything in which our heart in its secret affections is at variance with the mind of God; for if so, then so far our whole being is at variance with His. What kind of life will Read More, Copyright © 2020 The Israel Bible All Rights Reserved.
65 Hurwitz, Marshall S. “The Septuagint of Isaiah 36-39 in Relation to that of 1-35, 40-66.” HUCA 28 (1957):22-38. Hezekiah is like so many of us would be, if we knew we were about to die.
It is never too late to return to Hashem and call out to Him in sincere prayer.2 comments. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/sbc/isaiah-38.html. him to live.
heir, he had another reason for frustration over dying in the prime of life. 25.
Consequently this sickness happened in the very same year that the king of Assyria invaded Judaea; but the sacred historian thought proper to defer the account of it, till he had finished the history of Sennacherib. saying I believe that God will heal me, when I do as He said. 38:1-8 When we pray in our sickness, though God send not to us such an answer as he here sent to Hezekiah, yet, if by his Spirit he bids us be of good cheer, assures us that our sins are forgiven, and that, whether we live or die, we shall be his, we do not pray in vain. As the declaration of a familiar truth.
59 Hezekiah wept sore.". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/phc/isaiah-38.html.
Hezekiah is saying here.
âSet thine house in orderâ: An instruction telling Hezekiah to make his final
The command implies, Make due arrangements for thy succession, and whatever else is left incomplete in thy plans. It may be viewed either as the declaration of a familiar truth or as the prediction of an immediate event. Hezekiah's ________ has been right with God. He feels he is too 48 God. Does not this attach dignity, solemnity, earnestness to the whole of life?
x. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bcc/isaiah-38.html. departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a
Sick unto death — With a sickness to all appearances fatal. Cox, Expositions, 2nd series, p. 59. His
died had not God intervened.
"Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". Isaiah 38:7 "And this [shall introduction to the coming Babylonian captivity, which is pictured throughout Isaiah 38:6 clarifies that Hezekiah became mortally ill before God delivered Jerusalem from Sennacherib.