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11 Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord[a] made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 20:11 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. 2 Kings 20:11 tn Heb “made the shadow return, on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.” sn These steps probably functioned as a type of sundial. See HALOT 614 s.v. מַעֲלָה and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 256.

11 Then the prophet Isaiah called on the Lord, and the Lord made the shadow go back(A) the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.

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