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2 Kings 20:7
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Then Isaiah said, “Bring a lump of pressed figs.” So they brought it and applied it to his infected skin, and he recovered.
Yesha`yahu said, Take a cake of figs. They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
And Isaiah said, "Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover."
Then Isaiah said, "Make a paste from figs." So they made it and put it on Hezekiah's boil, and he got well.
Isaiah ordered, "Get a fig cake." So they did as he ordered and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered.
Then Isaiah said, "Bring a cake of figs. And they brought it and placed it on the [painful] inflammation, and he recovered."
Then Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." And they took it and placed it on the inflamed spot, and he recovered.
Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
Then Isaiah sayde, Take a lumpe of dry figges. And they tooke it, and layed it on the boyle, and he recouered.
Then Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." And they took and laid it on the boil, and he was restored to life.
Then Isaiah said, "Prepare a poultice of figs." So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and he recovered.
Then Isaiah said to the king's servants, "Bring some mashed figs and place them on the king's open sore. He will then get well."
And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
Then Isaiah said, "Crush figs together and put them on your sore; you will get well." So they took the mixture of figs and put it on Hezekiah's sore place, and he got well.
And Isaiah said. Let them take a cake of figs and lay it on the boil and he shall recover.
Then Isaiah told the king's attendants to put on his boil a paste made of figs, and he would get well.
Then Isaiah said, "Bring a lump of figs," so they took and put it on the skin sores, and he lived.
And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs; and they took and laid it on the boil; and he recovered.
And Esay sayde: Bringe hither a quantite of fygges. And whan they broughte them, they layed them vpon the sore, and it was healed.
And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
Then Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. So they took it and put it on his wound, and he got better.
And Isai sayd: Take a lumpe of dried figges. And they toke and layed it on the sore, and he recouered.
And Isaiah said: 'Take a cake of figs.' And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
And Isaiah said, Take a lumpe of figs. And they tooke and layd it on the boile, and he recouered.
And he said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it upon the ulcer, and he shall be well.
And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
And Ysaie seide, Brynge ye to me a gobet of figis. And whanne thei hadden brouyte it, and hadde putte on `his botche, he was heelid.
And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered.
Then Isaiah said, "Take a lump of figs." So they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
Then Isaiah said, "Make an ointment from figs." So Hezekiah's servants spread the ointment over the boil, and Hezekiah recovered!
Then Isaiah said, "Bring a loaf made of figs. Have them take and lay it on the sore on Hezekiah's body. Then he will be well again." And they took and laid it on the boil and he was healed.
Then Isaiah said, "Bring a lump of figs. Let them take it and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover."
And Isaiah said - Take ye a cake of figs. So they took and laid it upon the boil, and he recovered,
And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had brought it, and laid it upon his boil, he was healed.
And Isaiah said, "Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover."
And Isaiah saith, `Take ye a cake of figs;' and they take and lay [it] on the boil, and he reviveth.
Isaiah then said, "Prepare a plaster of figs." They prepared the plaster, applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah was on his way to recovery.
Then Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Take a lump: 2 Kings 2:20-22, 2 Kings 4:41, Isaiah 38:21
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.
Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:18 - a boil 2 Kings 20:5 - I will heal Hebrews 11:34 - out of Revelation 13:14 - they
Cross-References
except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You are not to eat from it, because on the day that you eat from it, it will become certain that you will die."
Pharaoh's princes saw her and commended her to Pharaoh, so the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
But Adonai inflicted great plagues on Pharaoh and his household because of Sarai Avram's wife.
Avraham traveled from there toward the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. While living as an alien in G'rar,
Avraham was saying of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister"; so Avimelekh king of G'rar sent and took Sarah.
But God came to Avimelekh in a dream one night and said to him, "You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, since she is someone's wife."
Now Avimelekh had not come near her; so he said, "Lord, will you kill even an upright nation?
Didn't he himself say to me, ‘She is my sister'? And even she herself said, ‘He is my brother.' In doing this, my heart has been pure and my hands innocent."
God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in doing this, your heart has been pure; and I too have kept you from sinning against me. This is why I didn't let you touch her.
Then Avimelekh called Avraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you to cause you to bring on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done things to me that are just not done."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Isaiah said, take a lump of figs,.... Not moist figs, but a cake of dried figs, as the word used signifies, and so the less likely to have any effect in curing the boil:
and they took, and laid it on the boil, and he recovered; made a plaster of it, and laid it on the ulcer, and it was healed. Physicians observe u, that as such like inflammations consist in a painful extension of the fibres by the hinderance of the circulation of the blood, through the extreme little arteries, which may be mitigated, or dissipated, or ripened, by such things as are emollient and loosening, so consequently by figs; and, in a time of pestilence, figs beaten together with butter and treacle have been applied to plague of boils with great success; yet these figs being only a cake of dry figs, and, the boil not only malignant, but deadly, and the cure so suddenly performed, show that this was done not in a natural, but in a supernatural way, though means were directed to be made use of.
u Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 3. p. 620. Vid. Levin. Lemnii Herb. Bibl. Explicat. c. 19. p. 60.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A lump of figs - The usual remedy in the East, even at the present day, for ordinary boils. But such a remedy would not naturally cure the dangerous tumor or carbuncle from which Hezekiah suffered. Thus the means used in this miracle were means having a tendency toward the result performed by them, but insufficient of themselves to produce that result (compare 2 Kings 4:34 note).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Kings 20:7. Take a lump of figs - and laid it on the boil — We cannot exactly say in what Hezekiah's malady consisted. שחין shechin signifies any inflammatory tumour, boil, abscess, c. The versions translate it sore, wound, and such like. Some think it was a pleurisy others, that it was the plague; others, the elephantiasis; and others, that it was a quinsey. A poultice of figs might be very proper to maturate a boil, or to discuss any obstinate inflammatory swelling. This Pliny remarks, Omnibus quae maturanda ant discutienda sunt imponuntur. But we cannot pronounce on the propriety of the application, unless we were certain of the nature of the malady. This, however was the natural means which God chose to bless to the recovery of Hezekiah's health; and without this interposition he must have died.
