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Do you see the shadow made by the setting sun on the stairway built for King Ahaz? I will make the shadow go back ten steps.

Then the shadow went back ten steps.[a]

King Hezekiah's Song of Praise

This is what Hezekiah wrote after he got well:

10 I thought I would die
    during my best years
and stay as a prisoner forever
    in the world of the dead.

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Footnotes

  1. 38.8 steps: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 8.

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