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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 20:3 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
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| 2Ki 20:3 |
Strong Concordance |
I beseech [0577] thee, O LORD [03068], remember [02142] now how I have walked [01980] before [06440] thee in truth [0571] and with a perfect [08003] heart [03824], and have done [06213] that which is good [02896] in thy sight [05869]. And Hezekiah [02396] wept [01058] [01065] sore [01419]. |
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King James |
I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| remember now how I have walked before thee, &c.--The course of Hezekiah's thoughts was evidently directed to the promise made to David and his successors on the throne (Kg1 8:25). He had kept the conditions as faithfully as human infirmity admitted; and as he had been all along free from any of those great crimes by which, through the judgment of God, human life was often suddenly cut short, his great grief might arise partly from the love of life, partly from the obscurity of the Mosaic dispensation, where life and immortality had not been fully brought to light, and partly from his plans for the reformation of his kingdom being frustrated by his death. He pleaded the fulfilment of the promise. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Remember now - The old covenant promised temporal prosperity, including length of days, to the righteous. Hezekiah, conscious of his faithfulness and integrity Kg2 18:3-6, ventures to expostulate (compare also Kg2 21:1 note). According to the highest standard of morality revealed up to this time, there was nothing unseemly in the self vindication of the monarch, which has many parallels in the Psalms of David (Psa 7:3-10; Psa 18:19-26; Psa 26:1-8, etc.). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| In truth - Sincerely with an honest mind. I am not conscious to myself of any gross exorbitances, for which thou usest to shorten mens days. Wept - For that horror of death which is and was common to men, especially, in the times of the Old Testament, when the grace of God in Christ was not so fully manifested, as now it is: and, for the distracted condition in which the church and state were then likely to be left, through the uncertainty of the succession to the crown. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
I beseech thee, O Lord - Hezekiah knew that, although the words of Isaiah were delivered to him in an absolute form, yet they were to be conditionally understood, else he could not have prayed to God to reverse a purpose which he knew to be irrevocable. Even this passage is a key to many prophecies and Divine declarations: see Isa 18:1-7 of Jeremiah.
Hezekiah pleads his uprightness and holy conduct in his own behalf. Was it impious to do so? No; but it certainly did not savor much either of humility or of a due sense of his own weakness. If he had a perfect heart, who made it such? - God. If he did good in God's sights who enabled him to do so? - God. Could he therefore plead in his behalf dispositions and actions which he could neither have felt nor practiced but by the power of the grace of God? I trow not. But the times of this ignorance God winked at. The Gospel teaches us a different lesson.
Wept sore - How clouded must his prospects of another world have been! But it is said that, as he saw the nation in danger from the Assyrian army, which was then invading it, and threatened to destroy the religion of the true God, he was greatly affected at the news of his death, as he wished to live to see the enemies of God overthrown. And therefore God promises that he will deliver the city out of the hands of the king of Assyria, at the same time that he promises him a respite of fifteen years, Kg2 20:6. His lamentation on this occasion may be seen in Isaiah, Isa 38:9-22. |
25 Therefore now, LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478], keep [08104] with thy servant [05650] David [01732] my father [01] that thou promisedst [01696] him, saying [0559], There shall not fail [03772] thee a man [0376] in my sight [06440] to sit [03427] on the throne [03678] of Israel [03478]; so [07535] that thy children [01121] take heed [08104] to their way [01870], that they walk [03212] before [06440] me as thou hast walked [01980] before [06440] me.
1 A Psalm of David [01732]. Judge [08199] me, O LORD [03068]; for I have walked [01980] in mine integrity [08537]: I have trusted [0982] also in the LORD [03068]; therefore I shall not slide [04571].
2 Examine [0974] me, O LORD [03068], and prove [05254] me; try [06884] my reins [03629] and my heart [03820].
3 For thy lovingkindness [02617] is before mine eyes [05869]: and I have walked [01980] in thy truth [0571].
4 I have not sat [03427] with vain [07723] persons [04962], neither will I go in [0935] with dissemblers [05956].
5 I have hated [08130] the congregation [06951] of evil doers [07489]; and will not sit [03427] with the wicked [07563].
6 I will wash [07364] mine hands [03709] in innocency [05356]: so will I compass [05437] thine altar [04196], O LORD [03068]:
7 That I may publish [08085] with the voice [06963] of thanksgiving [08426], and tell [05608] of all thy wondrous works [06381].
8 LORD [03068], I have loved [0157] the habitation [04583] of thy house [01004], and the place [04725] where thine honour [03519] dwelleth [04908].
19 He brought me forth [03318] also into a large place [04800]; he delivered [02502] me, because he delighted [02654] in me.
20 The LORD [03068] rewarded [01580] me according to my righteousness [06664]; according to the cleanness [01252] of my hands [03027] hath he recompensed [07725] me.
21 For I have kept [08104] the ways [01870] of the LORD [03068], and have not wickedly departed [07561] from my God [0430].
22 For all his judgments [04941] were before me, and I did not put away [05493] his statutes [02708] from me.
23 I was also upright [08549] before him, and I kept [08104] myself from mine iniquity [05771].
24 Therefore hath the LORD [03068] recompensed [07725] me according to my righteousness [06664], according to the cleanness [01252] of my hands [03027] in his eyesight [05869].
25 With the merciful [02623] thou wilt shew thyself merciful [02616]; with an upright [08549] man [01399] thou wilt shew thyself upright [08552];
26 With the pure [01305] thou wilt shew thyself pure [01305]; and with the froward [06141] thou wilt shew thyself froward [06617].
3 O LORD [03068] my God [0430], if I have done [06213] this; if there be [03426] iniquity [05766] in my hands [03709];
4 If I have rewarded [01580] evil [07451] unto him that was at peace [07999] with me; (yea, I have delivered [02502] him that without cause [07387] is mine enemy [06887]
5 Let the enemy [0341] persecute [07291] my soul [05315], and take [05381] it; yea, let him tread down [07429] my life [02416] upon the earth [0776], and lay [07931] mine honour [03519] in the dust [06083]. Selah [05542].
6 Arise [06965], O LORD [03068], in thine anger [0639], lift up [05375] thyself because of the rage [05678] of mine enemies [06887]: and awake [05782] for me to the judgment [04941] that thou hast commanded [06680].
7 So shall the congregation [05712] of the people [03816] compass thee about [05437]: for their sakes therefore return [07725] thou on high [04791].
8 The LORD [03068] shall judge [01777] the people [05971]: judge [08199] me, O LORD [03068], according to my righteousness [06664], and according to mine integrity [08537] that is in me.
9 Oh let the wickedness [07451] of the wicked [07563] come to an end [01584]; but establish [03559] the just [06662]: for the righteous [06662] God [0430] trieth [0974] the hearts [03826] and reins [03629].
10 My defence [04043] is of God [0430], which saveth [03467] the upright [03477] in heart [03820].
1 Manasseh [04519] was twelve [08147] [06240] years [08141] old [01121] when he began to reign [04427], and reigned [04427] fifty [02572] and five [02568] years [08141] in Jerusalem [03389]. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Hephzibah [02657].
3 And he did [06213] that which was right [03477] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068], according to all that David [01732] his father [01] did [06213].
4 He removed [05493] the high places [01116], and brake [07665] the images [04676], and cut down [03772] the groves [0842], and brake in pieces [03807] the brasen [05178] serpent [05175] that Moses [04872] had made [06213]: for unto those days [03117] the children [01121] of Israel [03478] did burn incense [06999] to it: and he called [07121] it Nehushtan [05180].
5 He trusted [0982] in the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478]; so that after [0310] him was none like him among all the kings [04428] of Judah [03063], nor any that were before [06440] him.
6 For he clave [01692] to the LORD [03068], and departed [05493] not from following [0310] him, but kept [08104] his commandments [04687], which the LORD [03068] commanded [06680] Moses [04872].
9 The writing [04385] of Hezekiah [02396] king [04428] of Judah [03063], when he had been sick [02470], and was recovered [02421] of his sickness [02483]:
10 I said [0559] in the cutting off [01824] of my days [03117], I shall go [03212] to the gates [08179] of the grave [07585]: I am deprived [06485] of the residue [03499] of my years [08141].
11 I said [0559], I shall not see [07200] the LORD [03050], even the LORD [03050], in the land [0776] of the living [02416]: I shall behold [05027] man [0120] no more with the inhabitants [03427] of the world [02309].
12 Mine age [01755] is departed [05265], and is removed [01540] from me as a shepherd's [07473] tent [0168]: I have cut off [07088] like a weaver [0707] my life [02416]: he will cut me off [01214] with pining sickness [01803]: from day [03117] even to night [03915] wilt thou make an end [07999] of me.
13 I reckoned [07737] till morning [01242], that, as a lion [0738], so will he break [07665] all my bones [06106]: from day [03117] even to night [03915] wilt thou make an end [07999] of me.
14 Like a crane [05483] or a swallow [05693], so did I chatter [06850]: I did mourn [01897] as a dove [03123]: mine eyes [05869] fail [01809] with looking upward [04791]: O LORD [03068], I am oppressed [06234]; undertake [06148] for me.
15 What shall I say [01696]? he hath both spoken [0559] unto me, and himself hath done [06213] it: I shall go softly [01718] all my years [08141] in the bitterness [04751] of my soul [05315].
16 O Lord [0136], by these things men live [02421], and in all these things is the life [02416] of my spirit [07307]: so wilt thou recover [02492] me, and make me to live [02421].
17 Behold, for peace [07965] I had great bitterness [04751] [04843]: but thou hast in love [02836] to my soul [05315] delivered it from the pit [07845] of corruption [01097]: for thou hast cast [07993] all my sins [02399] behind [0310] thy back [01460].
18 For the grave [07585] cannot praise [03034] thee, death [04194] can not celebrate [01984] thee: they that go down [03381] into the pit [0953] cannot hope [07663] for thy truth [0571].
19 The living [02416], the living [02416], he shall praise [03034] thee, as I do this day [03117]: the father [01] to the children [01121] shall make known [03045] thy truth [0571].
20 The LORD [03068] was ready to save [03467] me: therefore we will sing my songs [05058] to the stringed instruments [05059] all the days [03117] of our life [02416] in the house [01004] of the LORD [03068].
21 For Isaiah [03470] had said [0559], Let them take [05375] a lump [01690] of figs [08384], and lay it for a plaister [04799] upon the boil [07822], and he shall recover [02421].
22 Hezekiah [02396] also had said [0559], What is the sign [0226] that I shall go up [05927] to the house [01004] of the LORD [03068]?
6 And I will add [03254] unto thy days [03117] fifteen [02568] [06240] years [08141]; and I will deliver [05337] thee and this city [05892] out of the hand [03709] of the king [04428] of Assyria [0804]; and I will defend [01598] this city [05892] for mine own sake, and for my servant [05650] David's [01732] sake.
1 Woe [01945] to the land [0776] shadowing [06767] with wings [03671], which is beyond [05676] the rivers [05104] of Ethiopia [03568]:
2 That sendeth [07971] ambassadors [06735] by the sea [03220], even in vessels [03627] of bulrushes [01573] upon [06440] the waters [04325], saying, Go [03212], ye swift [07031] messengers [04397], to a nation [01471] scattered [04900] and peeled [04178], to a people [05971] terrible [03372] from their beginning hitherto [01973]; a nation [01471] meted out [06978] and trodden down [04001], whose land [0776] the rivers [05104] have spoiled [0958] !
3 All ye inhabitants [03427] of the world [08398], and dwellers [07931] on the earth [0776], see [07200] ye, when he lifteth up [05375] an ensign [05251] on the mountains [02022]; and when he bloweth [08628] a trumpet [07782], hear [08085] ye.
4 For so [03541] the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto me, I will take my rest [08252], and I will consider [05027] in my dwelling place [04349] like a clear [06703] heat [02527] upon herbs [0216], and like a cloud [05645] of dew [02919] in the heat [02527] of harvest [07105].
5 For afore [06440] the harvest [07105], when the bud [06525] is perfect [08552], and the sour grape [01155] is ripening [01580] in the flower [05328], he shall both cut off [03772] the sprigs [02150] with pruning hooks [04211], and take away [05493] and cut down [08456] the branches [05189].
6 They shall be left [05800] together [03162] unto the fowls [05861] of the mountains [02022], and to the beasts [0929] of the earth [0776]: and the fowls [05861] shall summer [06972] upon them, and all the beasts [0929] of the earth [0776] shall winter [02778] upon them.
7 In that time [06256] shall the present [07862] be brought [02986] unto the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635] of a people [05971] scattered [04900] and peeled [04178], and from a people [05971] terrible [03372] from their beginning hitherto [01973]; a nation [01471] meted out [06978] and trodden under foot [04001], whose land [0776] the rivers [05104] have spoiled [0958], to the place [04725] of the name [08034] of the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], the mount [02022] Zion [06726].