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Isaiah 38:21–22

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38:218 Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.” 38:22Hezekiah said, “What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the Lord’s temple?”

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  1. 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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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?