10 And Hezekiah answered, “It is an easy thing for the shadow to go down ten [a]degrees; no, but let the shadow go backward ten degrees.”

11 So Isaiah the prophet cried out to the Lord, and (A)He brought the shadow ten [b]degrees backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.

The Babylonian Envoys(B)

12 (C)At that time [c]Berodach-Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 20:10 Lit. steps
  2. 2 Kings 20:11 Lit. steps
  3. 2 Kings 20:12 Merodach-Baladan, Is. 39:1

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