2 Kings 20:10-12
1599 Geneva Bible
10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to pass forward ten degrees: not so then, but let the shadow [a]go back ten degrees.
11 And Isaiah the Prophet called unto the Lord, and he brought again the shadow ten degrees back by the degrees whereby it had gone down in the [b]dial of Ahaz.
12 (A)The same season Berodach-Baladan the son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a [c]present to Hezekiah: for he had heard how that Hezekiah was sick.
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- 2 Kings 20:10 Let the sun go so many degrees back, that the hours may be so many the fewer in the king’s dial.
- 2 Kings 20:11 Which dial was set the top of the stairs that Ahaz had made.
- 2 Kings 20:12 Moved with the favor that God showed to Hezekiah, and also because he had declared himself enemy to Sennacherib his enemy which was now destroyed.
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