A lump of figs - This was the usual remedy in the East for ordinary boils, even today. But such a remedy would not naturally cure the danger…

In Isaiah these two verses are given at the end of the narrative, a position in which they are obviously out of place. Probably some copyist, after…

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 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 …

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…