Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
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Gill's Exposition
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah,.... The Septuagint and Arabic versions call it a "prayer": but the Targum, much better,
"a writing of confession;''
in which the king owns his murmurings and…
Barnes' Notes
Behold, I will bring again the shadow - The shadow, or shade which is made by the interception of the rays of the sun by the gnomon on the dial. The phrase ‘bring again’ (Hebrew, משׁיב mēshı̂yb)…
We may hence observe, among others, these good lessons: - 1. That neither men's greatness nor their goodness will exempt them from the arrests of sickness and death. Hezekiah, a mighty potentate on…
Cambridge Bible
The R.V. has (after Ahaz) the phrase "with the sun," which is wrongly taken by the A.V. as an adjunct of the word "dial" (the sun dial). It is necessary, however, to strike out the preposition "with"…
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