And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord. — Thus the sign is evidently regarded by the historian as something directly …

And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord,.... Or prayed, as the Targum; and was very earnest in prayer, that what Hezekiah had desired might be g…

Hezekiah was sick to the point of death in the same year that the king of A yria besieged Jerusalem. Isaiah brought a warning to Hezekiah to prepar…