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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 38:19 - 38:19
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living ... living - emphatic repetition, as in Isa 38:11, Isa 38:17; his heart is so full of the main object of his prayer that, for want of adequate words, he repeats the same word.
father to the children - one generation of the living to another. He probably, also, hints at his own desire to live until he should have a child, the successor to his throne, to whom he might make known and so perpetuate the memory of God’s truth.
truth - faithfulness to His promises; especially in Hezekiah’s case, His promise of hearing prayer.