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This is the Lord’s sign to you that the Lord will carry out this thing he has promised: Watch! I will make the shadow on the steps of the upper[a] dial of Ahaz that marks the sun go ten steps backwards.”’”

Then the sunlight turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had gone down.

Hezekiah’s Prayer

A composition by King Hezekiah of Judah, following his illness and recovery:

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:8 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks upper

“‘This is the Lord’s sign(A) to you that the Lord will do what he has promised: I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.(B)

A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:

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