2 Kings 20:8
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?
And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah,.... Or "had said", {w} before the plaster of figs was directed to, or, however, laid on, and as soon as he was told he should be healed:
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? not that he disbelieved the promise of God, or doubted of a cure, but this he requested for the confirmation of his faith; which good men sometimes asked, when they doubted not, as Gideon; and Ahaz, Hezekiah's father, was bid to ask a sign for the like purpose, and it was resented in him that he did not, see Judges 6:17.
{w} rmayw "dixerat autem", V. L. Vatablus.