2 Kings 20:5

tell[R.V. say to] Hezekiah the captain[R.V. prince] of my people The first of these changes is in conformity with Isaiah. The latter clause -the captain &c." is not in the parallel place in Isaiah, where, in this portion of the narrative, the whole record is much briefer.

The name -prince" (Heb. nagid) is that which was applied by Jehovah Himself to the first elected king of Israel (1 Samuel 9:16), Saul.

behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go upunto the house of the Lord These words are not found in Isaiah. But there is given there the thanksgiving of Hezekiah which expresses the feelings with which the king would go up to the temple to acknowledge the goodness which had spared his life. It is called -the writing of Hezekiah when he had been sick and was recovered of his sickness" (Isaiah 38:9), and is a sort of psalm of thanksgiving.

Though the promise of God -thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord" is omitted in Isaiah we yet see from the concluding words of Isaiah 38. that the thought of it was in the writer's mind, for he tells us -Hezekiah had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?"