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Isaiah replied, “This will be the sign to you from the Lord that he will do as he has promised. I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the stairway of Ahaz to turn back ten steps.” And the sun then retreated the ten steps it had previously advanced.

Hezekiah’s Hymn of Thanksgiving.[a] A canticle written by King Hezekiah of Judah after his recovery from his illness:

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:9 This prayer, which is lacking in 2 Kings, seems to be post-Exilic.