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2Ki 20:7 (KJV) — And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

2Ki 20:7 (NASB) — Then Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

Phrase from KJV (Help)		Correlating Verses

Take a lump	2Ki 2:20-22; 2Ki 4:41; Isa 38:21
the boil	The word shechin, from the Arabic sachana, to be hot, signifies an inflammatory tumour, or burning boil; and some think that Hezekiah's malady was a pleurisy; others, that it was the plague; and others, the elephantiasis, a species of leprosy, as one of the Hexapla versions renders in Job 2:7. A poultice of figs might be very proper to maturate a boil, or dismiss any obstinate inflammatory swelling; but we need not discuss its propriety in this case, because it was as much the means which God chose to bless for his recovery, as the clay which Christ moistened to anoint the eyes of the blind man; for in both cases, without Divine interposition the cure could not have been effected.

Correlated Passages Using NASB

Take a lump

the boil

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