¹  Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”

biblegateway Isa 38:21

Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover."

Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a lump of figs and apply it to his infected skin, so that he may recover."

(SEE 38:6)

biblegateway Isa 38:21

Isaiah had said, "Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover."

Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover."

bibleoremus Isa 38:21

Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover."

Isaiah told them to prepare a fig-plaster; when it was made and applied to the inflammation, Hezekiah recovered.

biblegateway Isa 38:21

Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it as a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover."

For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay [it] for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

biblegateway Isa 38:21

¹  Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”

¹ tc If original to Isaiah 38, vv. 21-22 have obviously been misplaced in the course of the text’s transmission, and would most naturally be placed here, between Isa 38:6 and 38:7. See 2 Kgs 20:7-8, where these verses are placed at this point in the narrative, not at the end. Another possibility is that these verses were not in the original account, and a scribe, familiar with the 2 Kgs version of the story, appended vv. 21-22 to the end of the account in Isaiah 38.