Isaiah 38:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Behold, I will turn the shadow [denoting the time of day] on the steps or degrees, which has gone down on the steps or sundial of Ahaz, backward ten steps or degrees. And the sunlight turned back ten steps on the steps on which it had gone down.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.

Common English Bible

⁸ once the shadow cast by the sun descends on the steps of Ahaz, I will make it back up ten steps.” And the sun went back ten of the steps that it had already descended.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Behold, I will cause the shadow of the lines, which has now descended on the sundial of Ahaz, to move in reverse for ten lines." And so, the sun moved backward by ten lines, through the degrees by which it had descended.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the lines, by which it is now gone down in the sun-dial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines backward. And the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by which it was gone down.

Isaiah 38:8 Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:24

In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death, and he prayed to the Lord; and he answered him and gave him a sign.

2 Chronicles 32:31

And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to try him and to know all that was in his heart.

Isaiah 38:9

A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:

Isaiah 7:11

“Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.”

Matthew 16:1

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Judges 6:17

And he said to him, “If now I have found favor with thee, then show me a sign that it is thou who speakest with me.