פירוש על ברכות 20:5

HE HID THE BOOK OF REMEDIES. So that people would ask for compassion.

See p. 56.

King Solomon was reputed to have compiled a book containing infallible prescriptions for almost all ailments. Josephus, Antiq. viii. ii. 5, mentions that he was skilled in expelling demons and "composed incantations by which distempers are alleviated." Hezekiah destroyed the book so that people in times of sickness should pray to God and not depend upon these cures.