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The More Difficult Sign
Hezekiah chose for the shadow to move backward because it was a more profound miracle. Commentators explain that while a sudden jump forward would have been miraculous, it was still in the shadow's natural direction. Moving backward was completely contrary to nature, making it a clearer and more undeniable sign of God's power.
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2 Kings
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Kings 20:10
18th Century
Theologian
It is a light thing: It seemed to Hezekiah a comparatively easy thing for the shadow, which had already begun to lengthen, to simply make a …
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Kings 20:10
19th Century
Bishop
It is a light thing for the shadow to go down. —Because that was the ordinary course of things. As a natural phenomenon, of course…
John Gill
On 2 Kings 20:10
17th Century
Pastor
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 de…
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Matthew Henry
On 2 Kings 20:1–11
17th Century
Minister
Hezekiah was sick to the point of death in the same year that the king of Assyria besieged Jerusalem. Isaiah brought a warning to Hezekiah to prepa…