2 Raja-raja 20:10

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Hizkia berkata: "Itu perkara ringan bagi bayang-bayang itu untuk memanjang sepuluh tapak! Sebaliknya, biarlah bayang-bayang itu mundur ke belakang sepuluh tapak."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Hizkia berkata: "Itu perkara ringan bagi bayang-bayang itu untuk memanjang sepuluh tapak! Sebaliknya, biarlah bayang-bayang itu mundur ke belakang sepuluh tapak."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka titah raja Hizkia: Mudah juga bayang itu lalu ke hadapan sepuluh tapak, jangan begitu, melainkan hendaklah bayang itu undur ke belakang sepuluh tapak.

Contextual Overview

¹ About that time was Hezekia sicke vnto the death: And the prophete Isai the sonne of Amoz came to him, and sayde vnto him, Thus saith the Lord: Put thine houshold in an order, for thou shalt dye, and not lyue. ² And Hezekia turned his face to the wal, and prayed vnto the Lord, saying. ³ I beseche the, O Lorde, remember now how I haue walked before thee in trueth and with a perfect heart, & haue done that whiche is good in thy sight. And Hezekia wept sore. ⁴ And it fortuned that afore Isai was gone out into the middle of the court, the word of the Lorde came to him, saying: ⁵ Turne againe, and tell Hezekia the captayne of my people, thus sayth the Lorde God of Dauid thy father: I haue hearde thy prayer, and seene thy teares, and beholde I will heale thee, so that on the thirde day thou shalt go vp into the house of the Lorde. ⁶ And I wil adde vnto thy dayes yet fifteene yeres, & I will deliuer thee & this citie out of the hand of ye king of Assyria, & will defende this citie, for myne owne sake, & for Dauid my seruauntes sake. ⁷ And Isai sayd: Take a lumpe of dried figges. And they toke and layed it on the sore, and he recouered. ⁸ And Hezekia sayde vnto Isai: What shalbe the signe that the Lorde will heale me, and that I shal go vp into the house of the Lorde the thirde day? ⁹ Isai aunswered: This signe shalt thou haue of the Lord, that the Lord will do that he hath spoken: Shall the shadowe go forwarde ten degrees? or go backe againe ten degrees? ¹⁰ Hezekia aunswered: It is a light thing for the shadowe to go downe ten degrees, I desire not [that:] but let the shadowe go backwarde ten degrees.

Bible Verse Review
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2 Kings 2:10, 2 Kings 3:18, Isaiah 49:6, Mark 9:28, Mark 9:29, John 14:12

Reciprocal: Joshua 10:14 - there was

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Hezekiah answered, it is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees,.... That is, it was comparatively so, otherwise to go down ten degrees at once would be extraordinary and miraculous; but that was more agreeable to the nature and course of it to go forward, and so the miracle would be less apparent:

nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees; which was directly contrary to its natural order and course, whereby the miracle would appear more clear and manifest: these degrees are by some said x to be half hours, and not full ones, since it is observed the sun shines not twenty full hours on any dial, unless under the pole; the sun is supposed to have been now at the fifth full hour; the sun was brought back five whole hours, then came forward five, then came forward two degrees, or one hour, to the sixth hour; which made sixteen; then it was six hours to sunset; so that day was prolonged twenty two hours: the Chinese y relate, that, in the time of Kingcungus, the planet Mars, for sake of the king, went back three degrees.

x Weemse's Christ. Synagog. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 6. p. 167. See his Exposition of the Judicial Laws, c. 25. p. 90. &c. y Martin. Sinic. Hist. l. 4. p. 138.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is a light thing - It seemed to Hezekiah comparatively easy that the shadow, which had already begun to lengthen, should merely make a sudden jump in the same direction; but, wholly contrary to all experience that it should change its direction, advancing up the steps again when it had once begun to descend them.