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2Ki_20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
Ver. 11. And he brought the shadow.] Together with the body of the sun. This was the prodigy that the Babylonish ambassadors had observed and came to inquire of. {2Ch_32:31} The sun - which was their god - had honoured Hezekiah; therefore they were sent to honour him too with a visit and a present. And should not we therefore honour the saints whom Christ hath so honoured? {a} See on 2Ki_20:9.
Ten degrees backward.] Ten degrees, that is, five hours, as the most hold; so that that day was seventeen hours long, not twenty-two, as Junius will have it.
In the dial of Ahaz.] A famous dial, haply mural, and visible to Hezekiah out of his bedchamber.
{a} Abulens.