Geneva Bible Notes: 2 Kings 20

2 Kings 20:1 (!) Hezekiah is sicke and receyueth the signe of his health.

2 Kings 20:2 (a) That his minde might not be troubled.

2 Kings 20:3 (c) Not so muche for his owne death, as for feare that idolatrie shulde be restored which he had destroyed, and so Gods Name be dishonored.

2 Kings 20:3 (b) Meaning, without all hypocrisie.

2 Kings 20:5 (e) To giue thankes for thy deliuerance.

2 Kings 20:5 (d) Because of his vnfained repentance & prayer God turned away his wrath.

2 Kings 20:7 (f) He declareth that albeit God can heale without other medecines, yet he sheweth that he wil not haue these inferior meanes contemned.

2 Kings 20:10 (g) Let the sunne go so manie degrees backe that the houres may be so manie the fewer in the Kings dial.

2 Kings 20:11 (h) Which dial was set in the top of the stayres that Ahaz had made.

2 Kings 20:12 (!) He receyueth rewardes of Berodach,

2 Kings 20:12 (i) Moued with the fauour that God shewed to Hezekiah & also because he had declared him selfe enemie to Saneherib his enemie which was now destroied.

2 Kings 20:13 (!) Sheweth his treasures, and is reprehended of Isaiah.

2 Kings 20:13 (k) Being moued with ambition and vaine glorie, & also because he semed to rejoyce in the friendship of him that was Gods enemies & an infidele.

2 Kings 20:19 (l) He acknowledgeth Isaiah to be the true Prophet of God, and therefore humbleth him selfe to his worde.

2 Kings 20:19 (m) Seing that God hathe shewed me this fauour to grant me quietnes during my life: for he was afraied lest the enemies hsulde haue had occasion to rejoyce, if the Church had decaied in his time because he had restored religion.

2 Kings 20:22 (!) He dyeth and Manasseh his sonne reigneth in his steade.