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The 'Steps' of the Sun
Commentators explain that the 'dial of Ahaz' was likely not a flat sundial but a set of steps or stairs with an obelisk at the top. The word translated as 'degrees' literally means 'steps.' The time was told by observing which step the obelisk's shadow fell upon as the sun moved across the sky.
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Kings 20:9
18th Century
Theologian
Ten degrees—literally, "ten steps." It is perhaps not entirely certain whether the "dial of Ahaz" (2 Kings 20:11) was a true dia…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Kings 20:9
19th Century
Bishop
Shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? —Rather, the shadow has marched (or travelled) …
John Gill
On 2 Kings 20:9
17th Century
Pastor
And Isaiah said, this sign shall you have of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has spoken,.... Cure him of his disorder, so that he…
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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…