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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."
Then Yesha‘yahu said, "Prepare a fig-plaster." They brought it and laid it on the inflammation, so that he would recover.
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 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
forsothe ete thou not of the tre of kunnyng of good and of yuel; for in what euere dai thou schalt ete therof, thou schalt die bi deeth.
and the womman was takun vp in to the hous of Farao.
Forsothe the Lord beet Farao and his hous with moste veniaunces, for Saray, the wijf of Abram.
Abraham yede forth fro thennus in to the lond of the south, and dwellide bitwixe Cades and Sur, and was a pilgrym in Geraris;
and he seide of Sare, his wijf, Sche is my sistir. Therfor Abymalec, kyng of Gerare, sente, and took hir.
Sotheli God cam to Abymalec bi a sweuene in the nyyt, and seide to hym, Lo! thou schalt die, for the wooman which thou hast take, for sche hath an hosebond.
Forsothe Abymalech touchide not hir; and he seide, Lord, whether thou schalt sle folc vnkunnynge and iust?
Whether he seide not to me, Sche is my sistir, and sche seide, He is my brother? In the symplenesse of myn herte, and in the clennesse of myn hondis Y dide this.
And the Lord seide to hym, And Y woot that thou didist bi symple herte, and therfor Y kepte thee, lest thou didist synne ayens me, and I suffride not that thou touchidist hir;
Sotheli Abymalec clepide also Abraham, and seide to hym, What hast thou do to vs? what synneden we ayens thee, for thou hast brouyt in on me and on my rewme a greuouse synne? thou hast do to vs whiche thingis thou ouytist not do.
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.
