Hezekiah and the Lord's Word

The fulfillment of the Lord's word is mapped onto the stages of Hezekiah's growth and his maturation towards kingship. While Kurds and honey might refer to foods that a child starts to eat at an earlier stage of their development, in the context it is more likely that they were specific forms of food associated with a land that had fallen into disuse and was uncultivated. In Isaiah chapter 5 verses 26 to 30, the Lord had declared that he would whistle for foreign nations to come up against his land and people. At the end of chapter 7, we return to this image. The Lord would whistle for the might of Egypt in Assyria, the fly and the bee,