KJV King James Version
And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
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2 Kings 20:10
And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”
WEB World English Bible
Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”
ASV American Standard Version
And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Hezekiah saith, ‘It hath been light for the shadow to incline ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow turn backward ten degrees.’
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 20
7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered.
8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What [shall be] the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
12 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and [all] the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
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וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙H559 · a.marto sayיְחִזְקִיָּ֔הוּH2396 · chiz.qiy.yahHezekiahנָקֵ֣לH7043 · qa.lalto lightenלַצֵּ֔לH6738 · tselshadowלִנְט֖וֹתH5186 · na.tahto stretchעֶ֣שֶׂרH6235 · e.sertenמַעֲל֑וֹתH4609 · ma.a.lahthoughtלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotכִ֔יH3588 · kiforיָשׁ֥וּבH7725 · shuvto return: returnהַצֵּ֛לH6738 · tselshadowאֲחֹרַנִּ֖יתH322 · a.cho.ran.nitbackwardsעֶ֥שֶׂרH6235 · e.sertenמַעֲלֽוֹת׃H4609 · ma.a.lahthought
Cross-references
John 14:12Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.2 Kings 2:10And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: [nevertheless], if thou see me [when I am] taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be [so].Isaiah 49:6And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.2 Kings 3:18And this is [but] a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.Mark 9:28-29And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
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