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10 Hezekiah answered, “It's easy to have the shadow go forward ten steps![a] Have it go back ten steps.”[b]

11 Isaiah prayed to the Lord, and the Lord made the shadow go back ten steps[c] on the stairway[d] set up by King Ahaz.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 20:10 steps; or degrees.
  2. 2 Kings 20:10 steps; or degrees.
  3. 2 Kings 20:11 steps; or degrees.
  4. 2 Kings 20:11 stairway; or sundial. Archaeological evidence suggests that the stairway referred to in this passage was one specially constructed to tell time.

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