2Ki 20:1-11, 2Ch 32:24, Joh 11:1-5, Act 9:37, Phili 2:27-30 | TSK | STEP | Hezekiah, having received a message of death, by prayer has his life lengthened. The sun goes ten degrees backward for a sign of that promise. Berodach-baladan sending to visit Hezekiah, because of the wonder, has notice of his treasures. Isaiah understanding thereof, foretells the Babylonian captivity. Manasseh succeeds Hezekiah. A.M. 3291. B.C. 713. was Hezekiah. the prophet. Set thine house in order. Heb. Give charge concerning thinehouse. thou shalt die.

the boil.The word {shechin,} from the Arabic {sachana,} to be hot, signifies an inflammatory tumour, or burning boil; and some think that Hezekiah's malady was a pleurisy; others, that it was the plague; and others, the elephantiasis, a species of leprosy, as one of the Hexapla versions renders in Job 2:7. A poultice of figs might be very proper to maturate a boil, or dismiss any obstinate inflammatory swelling; but we need not discuss its propriety in this case, because it was as much the means which God chose to bless for his recovery, as the clay which Christ moistened to anoint the eyes of the blind man; for in both cases, without Divine interposition the cure could not have been effected.

What shall be.

5; 19:29; Jud 6:17,37-40; Isa 7:11,14; 38:22; Ho 6:2

This sign.

Isa 38:7,8; Mt 16:1-4; Mr 8:11,12; Lu 11:29,30

2:10; 3:18; Isa 49:6; Mr 9:28,29; Joh 14:12

cried unto.

Ex 14:15; 1Ki 17:20,21; 18:36-38; Ac 9:40

he brought.

Jos 10:12-14; 2Ch 32:24,31; Isa 38:8

dial. Heb. degrees.

2 Chronicles 32:24

Hezekiah.

2Ki 20:1-3; Isa 38:1-3

gave him a sign. or, wrought a miracle for him.

2Ki 20:4-11; Isa 38:4-8,21,22

John 11:1-5

1 Christ raises Lazarus, four days buried.

45 Many Jews believe.

47 The high priests and Pharisees gather a council against Christ.

49 Caiaphas prophesies.

54 Jesus hides himself.

55 At the passover they enquire after him, and lay wait for him.

Now.The raising of Lazarus from the dead, being a work of Christ beyond measure great, the most stupendous of all he had hitherto performed, and beyond all others calculated to evince his Divine majesty, was therefore purposely recorded by the Evangelist John; while it was omitted by the other Evangelists, probably, as Grotius supposes, because they wrote their histories during the life of Lazarus, and they did not mention him for fear of exciting the malice of the Jews against him; as we find from ch. 12:10, that they sought to put him to death, that our Lord might not have such a monument of his power and goodness remaining in the land.

was sick.

3,6; Ge 48:1; 2Ki 20:1-12; Ac 9:37

Lazarus.

5,11; 12:2,9,17; Lu 16:20-25

Bethany.

12:1; Mt 21:17; Mr 11:1

Mary.

Lu 10:38-42

that Mary.

12:3; Mt 26:6,7; Mr 14:3

anointed.

Lu 7:37,38