In Context

5 |Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, |I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you shall go up to the house of Yahweh.

6 I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.|'|

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.|

2 Kings 20:8 in Other Translations