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2 Kings 20:10-12
Good News Translation
2 Kings 20:10-12
Good News Translation
10 Hezekiah answered, “It's easy to have the shadow go forward ten steps![a] Have it go back ten steps.”[b]
11 Isaiah prayed to the Lord, and the Lord made the shadow go back ten steps[c] on the stairway[d] set up by King Ahaz.
Messengers from Babylonia(A)
12 About that same time the king of Babylonia, Merodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, heard that King Hezekiah had been sick, so he sent him a letter and a present.
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- 2 Kings 20:10 steps; or degrees.
- 2 Kings 20:10 steps; or degrees.
- 2 Kings 20:11 steps; or degrees.
- 2 Kings 20:11 stairway; or sundial. Archaeological evidence suggests that the stairway referred to in this passage was one specially constructed to tell time.
Good News Translation (GNT)
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