2 Kings 20:10-11
Context20:10 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
Isaiah 38:8
Context38:8 Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” 4 And then the shadow went back ten steps. 5
[20:10] 1 tn Heb “the shadow.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[20:11] 2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
[20:11] 3 tn Heb “on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.”
[38:8] 4 tn Heb “the shadow on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, with the sun, back ten steps.”
[38:8] 5 tn Heb “and the sun returned ten steps on the steps which it had gone down.”