Discovery BoxIsaiah 38:7-8 
Context38:7 Isaiah replied, 1 “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said: 38:8 Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” 2 And then the shadow went back ten steps. 3
Isaiah 38:22
Context38:22 Hezekiah said, “What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the Lord’s temple?”
1 tn The words “Isaiah replied” are supplied in the translation for clarification. In the present form of the Hebrew text v. 7 is joined directly to v. 6, but vv. 21-22, if original to Isaiah 38, must be inserted here. See 2 Kgs 20:7-8.
2 tn Heb “the shadow on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, with the sun, back ten steps.”
sn These steps probably functioned as a type of sundial. See HALOT 614 s.v. מַעֲלָה and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 256.
3 tn Heb “and the sun returned ten steps on the steps which it had gone down.”
