Isaiah said, “This is the sign(A) to you from the Lord that he will do what he has promised: Should the shadow go ahead ten steps or go back ten steps?”

10 Then Hezekiah answered, “It’s easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. No, let the shadow go back ten steps.” 11 So the prophet Isaiah called out to the Lord, and he brought the shadow[a] back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz.[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 20:11 Lit shadow on the steps
  2. 20:11 Tg, Vg; DSS read on the steps of Ahaz’s roof chamber; Is 38:8

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