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In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, So says Jehovah, Command your house, for you are dying, and shall not live.

And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Jehovah,

and said, O Jehovah, I beg You to remember now that I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart; and I have done the good in Your eyes. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

Then the Word of Jehovah was to Isaiah, saying,

Go and say to Hezekiah, So says Jehovah the God of your father David, I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your days.

And I will deliver you and this city out of the king of Assyria's hand. And I will shield over this city.

So this shall be the sign to you from Jehovah, that Jehovah shall do this thing that He has spoken:

Behold, I will bring back the shadow of the steps which has gone down in the steps of Ahaz with the sun, backward ten steps. So the sun went back up ten steps, by which steps it had gone down!