Isaiah 38:8
Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” And then the shadow went back ten steps.
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- Josh 10:12-14 : 12 The day the LORD delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the LORD before Israel:“O sun, stand still over Gibeon! O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!” 13 The sun stood still and the moon stood motionless while the nation took vengeance on its enemies. The event is recorded in the Scroll of the Upright One. The sun stood motionless in the middle of the sky and did not set for about a full day. 14 There has not been a day like it before or since. The LORD obeyed a man, for the LORD fought for Israel!
- 2 Kgs 20:9-9 : 9 Isaiah replied,“This is your sign from the LORD confirming that the LORD will do what he has said. Do you want the shadow to move ahead ten steps or to go back ten steps?” 10 Hezekiah answered,“It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps, but not for it to go back ten steps.” 11 Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and the LORD made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.
- 2 Chr 32:24 : 24 Hezekiah’s Shortcomings and Accomplishments In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. He prayed to the LORD, who answered him and gave him a sign confirming that he would be healed.
- 2 Chr 32:31 : 31 So when the envoys arrived from the Babylonian officials to visit him and inquire about the sign that occurred in the land, God left him alone to test him, in order to know his true motives.
- Matt 16:1 : 1 The Demand for a Sign Now when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
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- 2 Kgs 20:8-114 verses90%
8Hezekiah had said to Isaiah,“What is the confirming sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the LORD’s temple the day after tomorrow?”
9Isaiah replied,“This is your sign from the LORD confirming that the LORD will do what he has said. Do you want the shadow to move ahead ten steps or to go back ten steps?”
10Hezekiah answered,“It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps, but not for it to go back ten steps.”
11Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and the LORD made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.
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1The Lord Hears Hezekiah’s Prayer In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him,“This is what the LORD says,‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”
2Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,
3“Please, LORD. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4The LORD’s message came to Isaiah,
5“Go and tell Hezekiah:‘This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says:“I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,
6and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city.”’”
7Isaiah replied,“This is your sign from the LORD confirming that the LORD will do what he has said:
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9Hezekiah’s Song of Thanks This is the prayer of King Hezekiah of Judah when he was sick and then recovered from his illness:
10“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’
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9In that day,” says the Sovereign LORD,“I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.
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21Isaiah ordered,“Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”
22Hezekiah said,“What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the LORD’s temple?”
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5The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.
6The wind goes to the south and circles around to the north; round and round the wind goes and on its rounds it returns.
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4Isaiah had not yet left the middle courtyard when the LORD’s message came to him,
5“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people:‘This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David has said:“I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. The day after tomorrow you will go up to the LORD’s temple.
6I will add fifteen years to your life and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.”’”
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18He also removed the Sabbath awning that had been built in the temple and the king’s outer entranceway to the LORD’s temple, on account of the king of Assyria.
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16Then he brought me to the inner court of the LORD’s house. Right there at the entrance to the LORD’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the LORD’s temple, facing east– they were worshiping the sun toward the east!
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6On that day there will be no light– the sources of light in the heavens will congeal.
7It will happen in one day(a day known to the LORD); not in the day or the night, but in the evening there will be light.
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10The LORD again spoke to Ahaz:
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10Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.
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16I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.
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26The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, when the LORD binds up his people’s fractured bones and heals their severe wound.
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15The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness.
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16Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.
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8Then your light will shine like the sunrise; your restoration will quickly arrive; your godly behavior will go before you, and the LORD’s splendor will be your rear guard.
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2before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;
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5Isaiah said to Hezekiah,“Listen to the message of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies:
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7he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;
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11The sun and moon stand still in their courses; the flash of your arrows drives them away, the bright light of your lightning-quick spear.
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16Isaiah said to Hezekiah,“Listen to the LORD’s message,
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21For the LORD will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon, to accomplish his work, his peculiar work, to perform his task, his strange task.
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23The full moon will be covered up, the bright sun will be darkened; for the LORD of Heaven’s Armies will rule on Mount Zion in Jerusalem in the presence of his assembly, in majestic splendor.
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12But when the Lord finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.
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21Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah:“This is what the LORD God of Israel has said:‘As to what you have prayed to me concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria,
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2But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.
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12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’
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6Messengers delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. This royal edict read:“O Israelites, return to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria.