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I will send the sun backwards ten degrees as measured on Ahaz’s sundial!”

So the sun retraced ten degrees that it had gone down!

When King Hezekiah was well again, he wrote this poem about his experience:

10 “My life is but half done and I must leave it all. I am robbed of my normal years, and now I must enter the gates of Sheol.

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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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