Holy Scripture
Isaiah 38:8
A church father on this verse
“We find in the commentaries, written by our predecessors, that day had thirty-two hours. For when the sun had run its course, and reached the tenth hour, and the shadow had gone down by the ten degrees in the house of the temple, the sun turned back again by the ten degrees, according to the word of the Lord, and ther…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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In context
6And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians: and I will defend this city.
7And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that God will do this thing;
— Isaiah 38:8 —
9The prayer of Hezekiah king of Judea, when he had been sick, and was recovered from his sickness.
10I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years.