Exodus 14:15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? NIV - 10 "It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps," said Hezekiah. Clarify • Share • Report • … Click for direct links to the passages! . Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, OT History: 2 Kings 20:10 Hezekiah answered It is a light thing (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg) Christian Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: no, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. Isaiah prayed, and the LORD made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairway built for King Ahaz. (Isaiah 38:8 says "the sun returned," by a perfectly natural usus loquendi.) Chapter Parallel. Keil assumes "a wondrous refraction of the sun's rays effected by God at the prayer of Isaiah." It was a light thing, said he, for it to go down ten degrees; it did that every day anyway; "nay, let the shadow return back ten degrees." - And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees. ?, another use of the Hebrew verb. "Rather, have it go back ten steps." 2 Kings 2:10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so. 2 Kings 2:10 And he said, You have asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so to you; but if not... 2 Kings 3:18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand. The Targum, Syriac, and Arabic render "to go forward" (march). And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees. "Rather, have it go back ten steps." Hezekiah views it as a comparatively easy thing for the shadow, which is already descending the steps, to accelerate its pace and rapidly descend fifteen degrees instead of slowly traversing them; and therefore accepts Isaiah's other offer. Good News Translation Isaiah prayed to the LORD, and the LORD made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairway set up by King Ahaz. …, 1 Kings 18:36-38 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word…, Joshua 10:12-14 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon…, 2 Chronicles 32:24,31 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign…. And he brought the shadow ten degrees backward. He brought . American Standard Version And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps. "That the sign was granted, and that it was due to the direct agency of Him who ordereth all things according to His Divine will, is certain. Verse 10. How it was effected the narrative does not in any way disclose" (the Editor). The first section of Bible reading for 6.16.19: Like to read online? 2 Kings 3:18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand. Hebrew Names Version. And the shadow went back! Either the shadow of the "sundial of Ahaz" was to go down ten degrees, or it was to return back ten degrees. made the shadow return on the steps, which it had descended in the steps of Ahaz, backward ten steps. The LXX. Hezekiah chose the latter.
2 Kings 20 Psalm 41:1-6 Proverbs 16:1-15 So let the shadow go backward ten steps." You may scoff and say that's not possible, but you can do it too, just stop an apple from falling off the tree and hitting the ground, throw it up high in the air, and as it's rising, you are interrupting the laws of nature, momentarily. So the sun on the stairway went back up the ten steps it had gone down. International Standard Version Hezekiah answered, "It's an easy thing for a shadow to lengthen ten steps. Ewald and others wish to see in the retrogression of the shadow a token that "Hezekiah's life-limit was to go back many years;" but the prophet gave the king is choice whether the shadow should go forward or backward. And Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz. GNT. And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: no, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. On the question of how it was done, a good many opinions have been expressed, e.g., by means of a mock sun, a cloud of vapour, an earthquake, a contrivance applied by Isaiah (!)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular, Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct, To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend, Elevation, the act, the condition, a climactic progression, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular, Hezekiah -- 'Yah has strengthened', a king of Judah, also several other Israelites, Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. Isaiah 49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. 713 B.C. Isaiah 49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel... Mark 9:28,29 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out... John 14:12 Truly, truly, I say to you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do... OT History: 2 Kings 20:10 Hezekiah answered It is a light thing (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg). Isaiah -- 'salvation of Yah', four Israelites, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular, LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct, Elevation, the act, the condition, a climactic progression, Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular. to the sun-dial, &c. Ephrem Syrus, and other church fathers, believed that the sun receded in his celestial path; but it is not said that the sun went back, but the shadow. Ahaz.--Literally, and he (i.e., Jehovah) made the shadow return on the steps, which it had descended in the steps of Ahaz, backward ten steps. This sounds like a most amazing happening. Isaiah 38:8 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, to go back ten steps.” So the sun’s shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down. To go down.--Rather, to spread.