Isaiah 38:20

International Children’s Bible

²¹^[a] Then Isaiah said, “Make a paste from figs. Put it on Hezekiah’s boil. Then he will get well.”

²²Hezekiah asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign? What will show that I will go up to the Temple of the Lord?”

²⁰The Lord saved me.
So we will sing and play songs.
We will make music in the Temple of the Lord
all the days of our lives.

38:21-22 These verses are generally found at the end of chapter 38. But the same story in 2 Kings 20:6–9 shows the events happened in this order.

Isaiah 38:20-22

New International Version

²⁰The Lord will save me,
and we will sing^(A) with stringed instruments^(B)
all the days of our lives^(C)
in the temple^(D) of the Lord.

²¹Isaiah had said, “Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”

²²Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign^(E) that I will go up to the temple of the Lord?”

²⁰The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

²¹For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

²²Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?

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