2 Kings 20:8

And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah
Or "had said", ^F23 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?
not that he disbelieved the promise of God, or doubted of a cure, but this he requested for the confirmation of his faith; which good men sometimes asked, when they doubted not, as Gideon; and Ahaz, Hezekiah's father, was bid to ask a sign for the like purpose, and it was resented in him that he did not, see ( Judges 6:17 Judges 6:36 ) ( Isaiah 7:11-13 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 (rmayw) "dixerat autem", V. L. Vatablus.