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Isaiah 38:21

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

For Isaiah {H3470} had said {H559}, Let them take {H5375} a lump {H1690} of figs {H8384}, and lay it for a plaister {H4799} upon the boil {H7822}, and he shall recover {H2421}.

Then Yesha'yahu said, "Have them take a fig-plaster and apply it to the inflammation, and he will recover."

Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”

Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.

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Cross-References

  • 2 Kings 20:7 (5 votes)

    And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered.
  • 2 Kings 20:8 (5 votes)

    And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What [shall be] the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
  • John 9:6 (4 votes)

    When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
  • Mark 7:33 (4 votes)

    And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
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