Isaiah 38:8

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Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.” ’ ” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.

Context

5“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

6I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.

7This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.

8Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.” ’ ” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.

9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.

10I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

11I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

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