2 Kings 20:10

20:10 Hezekiah answered, “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps, but not for it ¹  to go back ten steps.”

2 Kings 20:9

20:9 Isaiah replied, “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said. Do you want the shadow to move ahead ten steps or to go back ten steps?” ² 

2 Kings 15:17

Menahem’s Reign over Israel

15:17 In the thirty-ninth year of King Azariah’s reign over Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel. He reigned for twelve years in Samaria. ³ 

2 Kings 20:11

20:11 Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord ⁴  made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz. ⁵ 

2 Kings 5:5

5:5 The king of Syria said, “Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman ⁶  went, taking with him ten talents ⁷  of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, ⁸  and ten suits of clothes.

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ⁹  day of the twelfth month, ¹⁰  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ¹¹  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ¹²  from prison.

¹ tn Heb “the shadow.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn The Hebrew הָלַךְ (halakh, a perfect), “it has moved ahead,” should be emended to הֲיֵלֵךְ (hayelekh, an imperfect with interrogative he [ה] prefixed), “shall it move ahead.”

³ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.”

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 750 pounds of silver (cf. NCV, NLT, CEV).

⁷ tn Heb “six thousand gold […].” The unit of measure is not given in the Hebrew text. A number of English versions supply “pieces” (e.g., KJV, ASV, NAB, TEV) or “shekels” (e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV).

⁶ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

⁷ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁸ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

⁹ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.