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and here is my guarantee: I will send the sun backwards ten degrees as measured on Ahaz’s sundial!”

So the sun retraced ten degrees that it had gone down!

When King Hezekiah was well again, he wrote this poem about his experience:

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“‘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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