20:10 Hezekiah answered, “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps, but not for it 1 to go back ten steps.”
20:11 Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord 2 made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz. 3
1 tnHeb “the shadow.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
2 tnHeb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tnHeb “on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.”