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Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 …
19th Century
Anglican
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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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