10Hezekiah answered, |It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.|


In Context

7 Isaiah said, |Take a cake of figs.| They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

8 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, |What shall be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh the third day?|

9 Isaiah said, |This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?|

10 Hezekiah answered, |It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.|

11 Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.

12 At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

2 Kings 20:10 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:10"It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps," said Hezekiah. "Rather, have it go back ten steps."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:10And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:10And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for the shadow to go forward ten lines: and I do not desire that this be done, but let it return back ten degrees.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:10And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:10And Hezekiah said, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: no, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:10And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:10And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten degrees: no, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:10And Hezekiah saith, 'It hath been light for the shadow to incline ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow turn backward ten degrees.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:10And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: no, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.