This would make a fourth day. So, by that time, Lazarus would have been dead four days. It would seem that Lazarus died the same day that Jesus received the message. He probably became sick, because of overwork. Hezekiah's Poultice A distinguished Christian physician, who is also the author of a writing on Bible diseases, believed this sickness to be carbuncle, followed by blood poisoning.
Carbuncle is similar to a large boil involving the deeper tissues of the body.
Because Hezekiah prayed for healing, he was told that 15 years would be added to his life. Maybe it was used as a cleaning, of some kind. However, it could have been a test of Naaman s faith. And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch. And his faith was not always perfect.