CHAPTER XXXIX _The Babylonish monarch sends letters of congratulation and a_ _present to Hezekiah, on account of his recovery from his late_ _dangerous illness_, 1. _The king of Judah shows the messengers of Merodach-baladan all_ _the treasures of his house and kingdom_, 2. _The prophet takes... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 39:6. _TO BABYLON_] בבלה _babelah_, so two MSS., (one ancient;) rightly, without doubt as the other copy (2 Kings 20:17) has it. This prediction was fulfilled about one hundred and fifty years after it was spoken: see Daniel 1:2; Daniel 1:3. What a proof of Divine omniscience!... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 39:8. _THEN SAID HEZEKIAH_] The nature of Hezekiah's crime, and his humiliation on the message of God to him by the prophet, is more expressly declared by the author of the book of the Chronicles: "But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart wa... [ Continue Reading ]