Holy Scripture
Isaiah 38:7
A church father on this verse
“(Verses 7-8) And this shall be a sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word that he has spoken: Behold, I will turn back the shadow of the steps by which it has gone down on the sun dial of Ahaz ten steps backwards: and the sun returned ten steps by the same steps that it had gone down. And Hezekiah sa…”
Source: Septuagint
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7And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that God will do this thing;
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5Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, and seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy time fifteen years.
6And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians: and I will defend this city.
— Isaiah 38:7 —
8behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees of the dial by which ten degrees on the house of thy father the sun has gone down—I will turn back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by which the shadow had gone down.
9The prayer of Hezekiah king of Judea, when he had been sick, and was recovered from his sickness.