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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Take a lump
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2Ki 2:20-22; 2Ki 4:41; Isa 38:21 |
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the boil
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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. |
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2Ki 2:20 |
And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought [it] to him. |
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2Ki 2:21 |
And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren [land]. |
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2Ki 2:22 |
So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake. |
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2Ki 4:41 |
But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast [it] into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot. |
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Isa 38:21 |
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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Job 2:7 |
So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "2 Kings 20:7," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/2Ki/20/7.html>.
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