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once the shadow cast by the sun descends on the steps of Ahaz, I will make it back up ten steps.” And the sun went back ten of the steps that it had already descended.

A composition by Judah’s King Hezekiah when he was sick and then recovered from his sickness:

10 I thought, I must depart in the prime of my life;
    I have been relegated to the gates of the underworld[a] for the rest of my life.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:10 Heb Sheol

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.(A)

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

10 I said, “In the prime of my life(B)
    must I go through the gates of death(C)
    and be robbed of the rest of my years?(D)

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