Elijah replied, ‘You have asked for something difficult. If you see me being taken from you, you will have it. If not, you won’t.’
2 Kings 20:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Then Hezekiah answered, ‘It’s easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. No, let the shadow go back ten steps.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Hezekiah answered, It is an easy matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps; so let the shadow go back ten steps. American Standard Version (1901) And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps. Common English Bible “It’s easy for the shadow to go forward ten steps,” Hezekiah said, “but not for the shadow to go back ten steps.” Catholic Public Domain Version And Hezekiah said: "It is an easy for the shadow to increase for ten lines. And so I do not wish that this be done. Instead, let it turn back for ten degrees." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for the shadow to go forward ten lines; and I do not desire that this be done: but let it return back ten degrees. |
Elijah replied, ‘You have asked for something difficult. If you see me being taken from you, you will have it. If not, you won’t.’
So the prophet Isaiah called out to the Lord, and he brought the shadow back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz. ,
Isaiah said, ‘This is the sign to you from the Lord that he will do what he has promised: Should the shadow go ahead ten steps or go back ten steps? ’
This is easy in the Lord’s sight. He will also hand Moab over to you.
he says, ‘It is not enough for you to be my servant raising up the tribes of Jacob and restoring the protected ones of Israel. I will also make you a light for the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.’
‘Truly I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.
On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the Lord in the presence of Israel: ‘Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.’
And the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance on its enemies. Isn’t this written in the Book of Jashar? So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed its setting almost a full day.