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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.

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

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

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Footnotes

  1. 38:10 Sheol is the place of the dead.

I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.(A)

A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:

10 I said, “In the prime of my life(B)
    must I go through the gates of death(C)
    and be robbed of the rest of my years?(D)

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