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.
Isaiah 38 records King Hezekiah's terminal illness, his desperate prayer, and God's extraordinary response: fifteen added years and a sign involving the sun's shadow. This chapter sits within the historical interlude of Isaiah 36-39, bracketing the Assyrian crisis with a personal
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