And Isaiah said, “Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover.”
The historian, having shown us blaspheming Sennacherib destroyed in the midst of the prospects of life, here shows us praying Hezekiah delivered in the midst of the prospects of death - the days of the former shortened, of the latter prolonged. I. Here is Hezekiah's sickness. In those days, that is, in the same year in which the king of Assyria besieged Jerusalem; for he reigning reigned?
Commenting on 2 Kings 20:1-11
And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah,.... Or "had said", (w) before the plaster of figs was directed to, or, however, laid on, and as soon as he was told he should be healed: what shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day?
And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered. (f) He declares that though God can heal without other medicines, he will not have these inferior means contemned.