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Psalms 116:14

The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 116:14

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people (comp. , , where the thought is repeated, and lengthened out). We are not told in Isaiah or 2 Kings that Hezekiah made any vows when he lay on his sick bed, but he may probably have done so.

He certainly intended, as soon as his cure was complete, to "go up to the house of the Lord" (; ).

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