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Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
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God Works Through Means
Commentators unanimously agree that while the fig poultice was a known remedy for boils, it was insufficient to cure Hezekiah's deadly illness on its own. The healing was a miracle, demonstrating that God often chooses to work through natural means, supernaturally empowering them to accomplish His will. The power was God's, not the figs'.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
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…
Baptist
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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 Assyria besieged Jerusalem. Isaiah brought a warning to Hezekiah to prepa…
