Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 38:1
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Isaiah38:1
CHAPTER 38
Is 38:1-22. Hezekiah's Sickness; Perhaps Connected with the Plague or Blast Whereby the Assyrian Army Had Been Destroyed.
1. Set ... house in order--Make arrangement as to the succession to the throne; for he had then no son; and as to thy other concerns.
thou shall die--speaking according to the ordinary course of the disease. His being spared fifteen years was not a change in God's mind, but an illustration of God's dealings being unchangeably regulated by the state of man in relation to Him.
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