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Isaiah 38:8

Context
NETBible

Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” 1  And then the shadow went back ten steps. 2 

XREF

Jos 10:12-14; 2Ki 20:11; 2Ch 32:24,31; Mt 16:1

NET © Notes

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.

tn Heb “and the sun returned ten steps on the steps which it had gone down.”



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