Hezekiah also had said; literally, and Hezekiah said. Our translators, both in this verse and at the commencement of Isaiah 38:21, have endeavoured to conceal the awkwardness of the nexus, or rather want of nexus, with what precedes, by a modification of the rendering. The true sense is brought out by the proceeding, which is, however, a little arbitrary.
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