"“The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, As I do this day: The father to the children shall make known Thy truth. PK 344.1"
"The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence. But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the Lord."
The passage echoes the sentiment of praising God while alive, contrasting it with the silence of death. While Psalms 115:17-18 is not a perfect match, it captures the essence of the contrast between the living and the dead in relation to praising God.
"And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up."
The EGW passage emphasizes the living praising God and fathers teaching their children about God's truth. Deuteronomy 6:7 directly commands parents to teach their children diligently. The connection is a valid principle.
"“The Lord was ready to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of the Lord.” Isaiah 38:10-20 . PK 344.2"
"I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me. What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord."
Ellen White directly references Isaiah 38:10-20 in this passage.
"For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth."
Both passages emphasize God's supreme authority and kingship. The EGW passage directly affirms God's sovereignty, while the Psalm acknowledges God as a great King over all the earth. This is more than a vague thematic overlap.
"But pride and vanity took possession of Hezekiah's heart, and in self-exaltation he laid open to covetous eyes the treasures with which God had enriched His people. The king “showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.” Isaiah 39:2 . Not to glorify God did he do this, but to exalt himself in the eyes of the foreign princes. He did not stop to consider that these men were representatives of a powerful nation that had not the fear nor the love of God in their hearts, and that it was imprudent to make them his confidants concerning the temporal riches of the nation. PK 344.5"
"And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not."
Ellen White directly references Isaiah 39:2 in this passage.
"But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem."
The EGW passage directly references Hezekiah's pride and lifted-up heart, mirroring the language and context of 2 Chronicles 32:25. The passage is not just thematically similar; it's a direct commentary on the biblical account.
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
The EGW passage illustrates the principle of pride leading to a fall, as seen in Hezekiah's actions. Proverbs 16:18 explicitly states this principle. The EGW passage provides a specific example of the proverb in action.