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     * Take a lump.
     # 2:20-22; 4:41; Isa 38:21|
     * the boil.
       The word {shechin,} from the Arabic {sachana,} to be hot,
       signifies an inflammatory tumour, or burning boil; and some
       think that Hezekiah's malady was a pleurisy; others, that it
       was the plague; and others, the elephantiasis, a species of
       leprosy, as one of the Hexapla versions renders in Job 2:7.  A
       poultice of figs might be very proper to maturate a boil, or
       dismiss any obstinate inflammatory swelling; but we need not
       discuss its propriety in this case, because it was as much the
       means which God chose to bless for his recovery, as the clay
       which Christ moistened to anoint the eyes of the blind man;
       for in both cases, without Divine interposition the cure could
       not have been effected.