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21 And Isaiah said, “Let them take[a] a lump of figs, and let them rub it on the boil so that[b] he may recover.” 22 And Hezekiah said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the temple[c] of Yahweh?”

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  1. Isaiah 38:21 Literally “lift up”
  2. Isaiah 38:21 Or “and”
  3. Isaiah 38:22 Or “house”

21 [a] (Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.” 22 Hezekiah said, “What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the Lord’s temple?”)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:21 tc If original to Isaiah 38, vv. 21-22 have obviously been misplaced in the course of the text’s transmission, and would most naturally be placed here, between Isa 38:6 and 38:7. See 2 Kgs 20:7-8, where these verses are placed at this point in the narrative, not at the end. Another possibility is that these verses were not in the original account, and a scribe, familiar with the 2 Kgs version of the story, appended vv. 21-22 to the end of the account in Isaiah 38.