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Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
2 Koningen 20:8
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En Hizka sprak tot Jesaja: Welk is het teken, dat de Heer mij gezond zal maken, en dat ik in het huis des Heren zal opgaan op den derden dag?
Hizkia nu had gezegd tot Jesaja: Welk is het teken, dat de HEERE mij gezond maken zal, en dat ik den derden dag in des HEEREN huis zal opgaan?
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
What shall be: 2 Kings 20:5, 2 Kings 19:29, Judges 6:17, Judges 6:37-40, Isaiah 7:11, Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 38:22, Hosea 6:2
Reciprocal: Genesis 15:8 - General Genesis 24:14 - thereby 1 Kings 13:3 - General 2 Chronicles 32:31 - the wonder Isaiah 38:7 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah,.... Or "had said", w before the plaster of figs was directed to, or, however, laid on, and as soon as he was told he should be healed:
what shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day? not that he disbelieved the promise of God, or doubted of a cure, but this he requested for the confirmation of his faith; which good men sometimes asked, when they doubted not, as Gideon; and Ahaz, Hezekiah's father, was bid to ask a sign for the like purpose, and it was resented in him that he did not, see Judges 6:17.
w ויאמר "dixerat autem", V. L. Vatablus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And Hezekiah said - Previous to the actual recovery, Hezekiah, who at first may have felt himself no better, asked for a “sign” that he would indeed be restored to health.
Asking for a sign is a pious or a wicked act according to the spirit in which it is done. No blame is attached to the requests of Gideon Judges 6:17, Judges 6:37, Judges 6:39, or to this of Hezekiah, because they were real wishes of the heart expressed humbly. The “evil generation” that “sought for a sign” in our Lord’s days did not really want one, but made the demand captiously, neither expecting nor wishing that it should be granted.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Kings 20:8. What shall be the sign — He wished to be fully convinced that his cure was to be entirely supernatural; and, in order to this, he seeks one miracle to prove the truth of the other, that nothing might remain equivocal.
