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2 Reyes 20:9
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Respondió Isaías: Esta será la señal del Señor para ti, de que el Señor hará lo que ha dicho: ¿avanzará la sombra diez grados o retrocederá diez grados?
Y respondió Isaías: Esta señal tendrás de Jehová, de que Jehová hará esto que ha dicho: ¿Avanzará la sombra diez grados, o retrocederá diez grados?
Y respondió Isaías: Esta señal tendrás del SEÑOR, de que hará el SEÑOR esto que ha dicho: ¿Avanzará la sombra diez grados, o retrocederá diez grados?
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
This sign: Isaiah 38:7, Isaiah 38:8, Matthew 16:1-4, Mark 8:11, Mark 8:12, Luke 11:29, Luke 11:30
Reciprocal: Judges 6:36 - If thou wilt 2 Kings 19:29 - a sign Isaiah 37:30 - this shall
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Isaiah said, this sign shalt thou have of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken,.... Cure him of his disorder, so that he should be able to go to the temple on the third day:
shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? that is, the shadow of the sun on a dial plate; it was left to his option to choose which he would, as the confirming sign of his recovery.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Ten degrees - literally, “ten steps.†It is not, perhaps, altogether certain whether the “dial of Ahaz†2 Kings 20:11 was really a dial with a gnomon in the center, and “degrees†marked round it, or a construction fur marking time by means of “steps.†Sundials proper had been invented by the Babylonians before the time of Herodotus; but the instrument here was probably an instrument consisting of a set of steps, or stairs, with an obelisk at the top, the shadow of which descended or ascended the steps according as the sun rose higher in the heavens or declined.
The question as to the mode whereby the return of the shadow was produced is one on which many opinions have been held. Recently, it has been urged that the true cause of the phenomenon was a solar eclipse, in which the moon obscured the entire upper limb of the sun; and it has been clearly shown that if such an occurrence took place a little before mid-day, it would have had the effect described as having taken place - i. e., during the obscuration of the sun’s upper limb shadows would be sensibly lengthened, and that of the obelisk would descend the stairs; as the obscuration passed off the reverse would take place, shadows would shorten, and that of the obelisk would once more retire up the steps. If this be the true account, the miracle would consist in Isaiah’s supernatural foreknowledge of an event which the astronomy of the age was quite incapable of predicting, and in the providential guidance of Hezekiah’s will, so that he chose the “sign†which in the natural course of things was about to be manifested.
