Teks -- 2 Kings 20:3 (NET)

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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Wesley: 2Ki 20:3 - 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.

Wesley: 2Ki 20:3 - 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.

JFB: 2Ki 20:3 - 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 (1Ki 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.

Clarke: 2Ki 20:3 - I beseech thee, O Lord

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

Clarke: 2Ki 20:3 - Wept sore

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, 2Ki 20:6. His lamentation on this occasion may be seen in Isaiah, Isa 38:9-22.

TSK: 2Ki 20:3 - remember // I have walked // in truth // a perfect heart // wept sore

remember : Gen 8:1; Neh 5:19, Neh 13:14, Neh 13:22, Neh 13:31; Psa 25:7, Psa 89:47, Psa 89:50, Psa 119:49; Isa 63:11

I have walked : 2Ki 18:3-6; Gen 5:22, Gen 5:24, Gen 17:1; 1Ki 2:4, 1Ki 3:6; Job 1:1, Job 1:8; Luk 1:6

in truth : 2Ch 31:20, 2Ch 31:21; Psa 32:2, Psa 145:18; Jer 4:2; Joh 1:47; 2Co 1:12; 1Jo 3:21, 1Jo 3:22

a perfect heart : 1Ki 8:61, 1Ki 11:4, 1Ki 15:14; 2Ch 16:9

wept sore : Heb. wept with a great weeping, 2Sa 12:21, 2Sa 12:22; Psa 6:6, Psa 102:9; Isa 38:14; Heb 5:7

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Poole: 2Ki 20:3 - In truth // Hezekiah wept sore

In truth i.e. sincerely, with an honest mind, as the following words explain it. I have in some measure (human frailty excepted) kept the condition which thou didst require, 1Ki 8:25 , and therefore do humbly beg of thee that the promise made to David and to his posterity upon that condition may not fail in my person, for as yet thou hast not given me a son. See Poole "2Ki 20:1" . I am not conscious to myself of any gross exorbitances in the course of my life, for which thou usest to shorten men’ s days, and cut off my life in thy displeasure, which by this sharp message thou threatenest to do.

Hezekiah wept sore partly 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 principally for the distracted and miserable condition in which the church and state were then likely to be left, through the uncertainty of the succession to the crown, and the great proneness of the people to backslide to their false worship and evil practices; which he easily perceived, and which he knew would bring far worse calamities upon them if he were removed, as afterwards it came to pass.

Haydock: 2Ki 20:3 - Before thee // Weeping

Before thee. The saints of the old law frequently mention their good works, (Psalm vii. 9., &c., and 2 Esdras xiii. 14.) which is less common in those of the new. When God rewards our good works, he only crowns his own gifts. (Calmet) ---

Ezechias had sincerely desired to please God, though he might have given way to some imperfections, ver. 1. (Haydock) ---

Weeping; because he thought that the Messias would not be one of his posterity, as he had yet no children, chap. xxi. 1. (St. Jerome) ---

The saints of the Old Testament could only be received into Abraham's bosom. We may be with Christ immediately after death; so that it is far less terrible, Philippians i. 23. (Haydock)

Gill: 2Ki 20:1-3 - In these days was Hezekiah sick unto death

In these days was Hezekiah sick unto death,.... Of this sickness of Hezekiah, the message of the prophet Isaiah to him, and his prayer upon it; see Gill on Isa 38:1; see Gill on Isa 38:2; see Gill on Isa 38:3.