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This shall be the sign to you: You shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of it.
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A Verifiable Sign
Commentators explain that the sign wasn't a magical event, but a verifiable prediction of near-future events. By accurately foretelling the agricultural recovery over three years, God gave Hezekiah a tangible reason to trust in the more immediate, supernatural promise of deliverance from the Assyrian army.
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2 Kings
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The prophet now addresses Hezekiah once more and gives him a sign, or token, by which he and his people could be assured that Sennacherib was indee…
19th Century
Anglican
And this shall be a sign unto thee. —The prophet now addresses Hezekiah.
A sign. —Rather, the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on 2 Kings 19:1)
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All Sennacherib's movements were under Divine cognizance. God Himself undertakes to defend the city; and that person, that place, which He undertak…
