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Isaiah 38:6 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 38 · verse 6
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.Isaiah 38:6 · King James Version
Isaiah 38:6 in context
4Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
6And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
7And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
8Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- delivernâtsalto snatch away, whether in a good or a bad senseH5337 →
- AssyriaʼAshshûwrAshshur, the second son of ShemH804 →
- defendgânanto hedge aboutH1598 →
- cityʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- handkaphthe hollow hand or palmH3709 →
- kingmeleka kingH4428 →
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We may hence observe, among others, these good lessons: - 1. That neither men's greatness nor their goodness will exempt them from the arrests of sickness and death. Hezekiah, a mighty potentate on earth and a mighty favourite of Heaven, is struck with a disease, which, without a miracle, will certainly be mortal;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8