2 Kings 20:10

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 2:10 : 10 He said, "You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so."
  • 2 Kgs 3:18 : 18 This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
  • Isa 49:6 : 6 yes, he says, "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth."
  • Mark 9:28-29 : 28 When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?" 29 He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting."
  • John 14:12 : 12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

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  • 2 Kgs 20:8-9
    2 verses
    91%

    8Hezekiah 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?"

    9Isaiah 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?"

  • 2 Kgs 20:11-16
    6 verses
    91%

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

    12At 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.

    13Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.

    14Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say? From where did they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "They are come from a far country, even from Babylon."

    15He said, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."

    16Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of Yahweh.

  • Isa 38:7-9
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    89%

    7This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.

    8Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down."'"

    9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.

  • Isa 38:22
    71%

    22Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I will go up to the house of Yahweh?"

  • 2 Kgs 20:1-6
    6 verses
    70%

    1In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.'"

    2Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying,

    3"Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight." Hezekiah wept bitterly.

    4It happened, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle part of the city, that the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

    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.

    6I 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."'"

  • 2 Kgs 20:19
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    19Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of Yahweh which you have spoken is good." He said moreover, "Isn't it so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?"

  • Isa 37:14-15
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    14Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh's house, and spread it before Yahweh.

    15Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,

  • Isa 38:4-5
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    4Then the word of Yahweh came to Isaiah, saying,

    5"Go, and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

  • Isa 39:4-5
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    4Then he asked, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."

    5Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies:

  • Isa 38:2
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    2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • 2 Chr 32:24-26
    3 verses
    67%

    24In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death: and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.

    25But Hezekiah didn't render again according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

    26Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh didn't come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

  • Isa 37:10
    67%

    10"Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, 'Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem won't be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

  • 2 Kgs 19:10
    67%

    10'Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, "Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

  • Isa 37:21
    67%

    21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

  • 2 Chr 29:20
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    20Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of Yahweh.

  • 2 Kgs 19:14
    67%

    14Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, and spread it before Yahweh.

  • Isa 39:8
    67%

    8Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "Yahweh's word which you have spoken is good." He said moreover, "For there will be peace and truth in my days."

  • Isa 37:5
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    5So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

  • Neh 10:17
    66%

    17Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,

  • Job 17:12
    66%

    12They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • 2 Chr 30:20
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    20Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

  • 2 Sam 22:10
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    10He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

  • 2 Kgs 19:5
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    5So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

  • Amos 8:9
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    9It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

  • 2 Chr 32:20
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    20Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.

  • Isa 7:10
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    10Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

  • Job 10:21
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    21before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

  • 2 Kgs 19:20
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    20Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard you.

  • 1 Kgs 20:9
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    9Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, "Tell my lord the king, 'All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I cannot do.'" The messengers departed, and brought him back the message.

  • 2 Kgs 18:30
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    30Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

  • 2 Chr 32:11
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    11Doesn't Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, 'Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?'