8 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.

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Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.”

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

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a lump of pressed figs and apply it to his infected skin, so that he may recover.”

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

And Isaiah said, “Let them take a lump of figs, and let them rub it on the boil so that he may recover.”

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

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