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Green's Literal Translation

2 Kings 20:7

And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs; and they took and laid it on the boil; and he recovered.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Boil;   Disease;   Faith;   Fig;   Hezekiah;   Isaiah;   Prayer;   Rulers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture-Horticulture;   Boils;   Disease;   Diseases;   Figs;   Fruit, Natural;   Health-Disease;   Miracles;   Prevention and Cure of Diseases;   Remedies;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Diseases;   Fig-Tree, the;   Miracles Wrought through Servants of God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fig;   Miracle;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Disease;   Healing;   Hezekiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heal, Health;   Miracle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Boil;   Fig;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Boil;   Sore;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fig;   Food;   Isaiah, Book of;   Israel;   Medicine;   Plaister, Plaster;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Writing;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Boil;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Manasseh;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hezekiah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Urim and Thummim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Dial of Ahaz, the;   Fig;   Food;   Heal;   Hosea;   Text of the Old Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Fig and Fig-Tree;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Isaiah said, “Bring a lump of pressed figs.” So they brought it and applied it to his infected skin, and he recovered.
Hebrew Names Version
Yesha`yahu said, Take a cake of figs. They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
King James Version
And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
English Standard Version
And Isaiah said, "Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover."
New Century Version
Then Isaiah said, "Make a paste from figs." So they made it and put it on Hezekiah's boil, and he got well.
New English Translation
Isaiah ordered, "Get a fig cake." So they did as he ordered and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered.
Amplified Bible
Then Isaiah said, "Bring a cake of figs. And they brought it and placed it on the [painful] inflammation, and he recovered."
New American Standard Bible
Then Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." And they took it and placed it on the inflamed spot, and he recovered.
World English Bible
Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Isaiah sayde, Take a lumpe of dry figges. And they tooke it, and layed it on the boyle, and he recouered.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." And they took and laid it on the boil, and he was restored to life.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Isaiah said, "Prepare a poultice of figs." So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and he recovered.
Contemporary English Version
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."
Complete Jewish Bible
Then Yesha‘yahu said, "Prepare a fig-plaster." They brought it and laid it on the inflammation, so that he would recover.
Darby Translation
And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
Easy-to-Read Version
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.
George Lamsa Translation
And Isaiah said. Let them take a cake of figs and lay it on the boil and he shall recover.
Good News Translation
Then Isaiah told the king's attendants to put on his boil a paste made of figs, and he would get well.
Lexham English Bible
Then Isaiah said, "Bring a lump of figs," so they took and put it on the skin sores, and he lived.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Esay sayde: Bringe hither a quantite of fygges. And whan they broughte them, they layed them vpon the sore, and it was healed.
American Standard Version
And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
Bible in Basic English
Then Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. So they took it and put it on his wound, and he got better.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Isai sayd: Take a lumpe of dried figges. And they toke and layed it on the sore, and he recouered.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Isaiah said: 'Take a cake of figs.' And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
King James Version (1611)
And Isaiah said, Take a lumpe of figs. And they tooke and layd it on the boile, and he recouered.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it upon the ulcer, and he shall be well.
English Revised Version
And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
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.
Update Bible Version
And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered.
New King James Version
Then Isaiah said, "Take a lump of figs." So they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
New Living Translation
Then Isaiah said, "Make an ointment from figs." So Hezekiah's servants spread the ointment over the boil, and Hezekiah recovered!
New Life Bible
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.
New Revised Standard
Then Isaiah said, "Bring a lump of figs. Let them take it and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Isaiah said - Take ye a cake of figs. So they took and laid it upon the boil, and he recovered,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had brought it, and laid it upon his boil, he was healed.
Revised Standard Version
And Isaiah said, "Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover."
Young's Literal Translation
And Isaiah saith, `Take ye a cake of figs;' and they take and lay [it] on the boil, and he reviveth.
THE MESSAGE
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

Contextual Overview

1 In those days Hezekiah was sick to death, and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, So says Jehovah, Order your house, for you are dying, and shall not live. 2 And he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Jehovah, saying, 3 I pray to You, O Jehovah, please remember how I have walked always before your face in truth, and with a perfect heart, and I have done the good in Your eyes. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping. 4 And it happened when Isaiah had not gone out to the middle court, the Word of Jehovah came to him, saying, 5 Turn back, and you shall say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, So says Jehovah, the God of your father David, I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you; you shall go up to the house of Jehovah the third day. 6 And I have added fifteen years to your days; and I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and shall defend this city for My own sake, and for My servant David's sake. 7 And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs; and they took and laid it on the boil; and he recovered. 8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What will be the sign that Jehovah will heal me, that I will go up on the third day to the house of Jehovah? 9 And Isaiah said, This will be the sign to you from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do the thing that He has spoken: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it turn back ten steps? 10 And Hezekiah said, It would be a light thing for the shadow to go down ten steps; no, but let the shadow go back ten steps.

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

Genesis 2:17
but of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil you may not eat, for in the day that you eat of it, dying you shall die.
Genesis 12:15
And Pharaoh's princes saw her, and they praised her before Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
Genesis 12:17
And Jehovah touched Pharaoh and his house with great plagues on the word of Sarai, Abram's wife.
Genesis 20:1
And Abraham pulled up stakes from there to the land of the Negeb, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.
Genesis 20:2
And Abraham said with regards to his wife Sarah, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, Behold, you are about to die because of the woman you have taken, she being married to a husband.
Genesis 20:4
And Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, O Lord, will You slay even a righteous nation?
Genesis 20:5
And did he not say to me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the honor of my heart and the purity of my hands I have done this.
Genesis 20:6
And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the honor of your heart, and I also withheld you from sinning against Me. On account of this I did not allow you to touch her.
Genesis 20:9
And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What have you done to us? And in what have I offended you that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done things to me that ought not to be 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.


 
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