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Isaiah 38:21–22

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21Then Isaiah said, “Take a fig cake, and place it over the boil so that the king will get well.” 

22Hezekiah asked, “What is the sign that I’ll go to the Lord’s temple?”a

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Footnotes

  1. a38:21 Verses 21 and 22 have been placed after verse 6 to communicate the order of the account more clearly in English. According to most scholars, if these verses were originally in Isaiah 38, they most likely ended up being misplaced See 2 Kings 20:7–8 for the proper placement of these verses in the narrative.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.” Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a lump of pressed figs and apply it to his infected skin, so that he may recover.” And Hezekiah had asked, “What is the sign that I will go up to the Lord’s temple?”

NLTNew Living Translation

Isaiah had said to Hezekiah’s servants, “Make an ointment from figs and spread it over the boil, and Hezekiah will recover.”

And Hezekiah had asked, “What sign will prove that I will go to the Temple of the Lord?”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

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

KJV 1900King James Version

For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?