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10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps. 11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto Jehovah; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the [a]dial of Ahaz.

12 At that time [b]Berodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 20:11 Hebrew steps.
  2. 2 Kings 20:12 In Isa. 39:1, Merodach-baladan.