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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 38:3 - 38:3
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He mentions his past religious consistency, not as a boast or a ground for justification; but according to the Old Testament dispensation, wherein temporal rewards (as long life, etc., Exo 20:12) followed legal obedience, he makes his religious conduct a plea for asking the prolongation of his life.
walked - Life is a journey; the pious “walk with God” (Gen 5:24; 1Ki 9:4).
perfect - sincere; not absolutely perfect, but aiming towards it (Mat 5:45); single-minded in walking as in the presence of God (Gen 17:1). The letter of the Old Testament legal righteousness was, however, a standard very much below the spirit of the law as unfolded by Christ (Mat 5:20-48; 2Co 3:6, 2Co 3:14, 2Co 3:17).
wept sore - Josephus says, the reason why he wept so sorely was that being childless, he was leaving the kingdom without a successor. How often our wishes, when gratified, prove curses! Hezekiah lived to have a son; that son was the idolater Manasseh, the chief cause of God’s wrath against Judah, and of the overthrow of the kingdom (2Ki 23:26, 2Ki 23:27).