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ESAY XXXVIII. 2 KING. XX. to ver. 12. & 2 CHRON. XXXII. ver. 24.

HEZEKIAHS sickness of the Plague seemeth to have been in the very time while the Assyrian Army lay about Jerusalem; for though the destruction of that Army, by the Angel, be related before the Story of his sickness, yet that his sickness was while that Army was alive may be conjectured upon these two collections.

First, It is past all doubt that his sickness was this very same year that the Assyrian Army was destroyed by the Angel, for if he reigned nine and twenty years, as 2 King. 18. 2. and that stroke of the Angel upon that Army was in his fourteenth year, as vers. 13. of that Chapter; and he lived fifteen years after his sickness, as 2 King. 20. 6. then it makes that matter past controverting.

Secondly, The Lord in his sickness doth not only promise him reco∣very from his disease, but also that he will deliver him and that City out of the hand of the King of Assyria; which shews there was then dan∣ger to him and Jerusalem from that King; And this may be conceived one cause that made Hezekiah to weep so bitterly when the message of death was denounced unto him; because he was to leave Jerusalem and Judea under the pressure and danger of the Assyrian Tyrant, and must not see the delivery of it.

Therefore though the whole story of Sennacherib be laid together as was fit; yet can I not but in my thoughts insert this story of Heze∣kiahs sickness, before the destruction of his Army; as no doubt it came to pass before Sennacheribs death; and yet is that storyed before it, for the concluding of his History all at once.

To Hezekiah alone is it given to know the term of his life; and the Sun in the Firmament knoweth not his going down, that Hezekiah may know his.