The middle court—that is, the court of the royal palace. This interpretation is preferable to the one found in the margin.

Into the middle court. —This is the reading of some Hebrew Manuscripts, and of all the versions. The Hebrew text (city; …

This, of course, was not a sufficient means to cure the boil, but God made the means efficacious. Why were the means used? Why, to teach us that we…

And it came to pass, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle court,.... Of the king's palace, which is called the other court within the porch, …

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…