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2 Könige 20:10

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10 Und Hiskia sprach: Es ist dem Schatten ein Leichtes, zehn Grade zu fallen; nein, sondern der Schatten soll zehn Grade rückwärts gehen.

2 Könige 20:10 Meaning and Commentary

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 degrees at once would be extraordinary and miraculous; but that was more agreeable to the nature and course of it to go forward, and so the miracle would be less apparent:

nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees; which was directly contrary to its natural order and course, whereby the miracle would appear more clear and manifest: these degrees are by some said {x} to be half hours, and not full ones, since it is observed the sun shines not twenty full hours on any dial, unless under the pole; the sun is supposed to have been now at the fifth full hour; the sun was brought back five whole hours, then came forward five, then came forward two degrees, or one hour, to the sixth hour; which made sixteen; then it was six hours to sunset; so that day was prolonged twenty two hours: the Chinese {y} relate, that, in the time of Kingcungus, the planet Mars, for sake of the king, went back three degrees.

{x} Weemse's Christ. Synagog. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 6. p. 167. See his Exposition of the Judicial Laws, c. 25. p. 90. &c. {y} Martin. Sinic. Hist. l. 4. p. 138.

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2 Könige 20:10 In-Context

8 Und Hiskia sprach zu Jesaja: Welches ist das Zeichen, daß Jehova mich heilen wird, und daß ich am dritten Tage in das Haus Jehovas hinaufgehen werde?
9 Und Jesaja sprach: Dies wird dir das Zeichen sein von seiten Jehovas, daß Jehova das Wort tun wird, welches er geredet hat: Soll der Schatten zehn Grade vorwärts gehen, oder soll er zehn Grade zurückgehen?
10 Und Hiskia sprach: Es ist dem Schatten ein Leichtes, zehn Grade zu fallen; nein, sondern der Schatten soll zehn Grade rückwärts gehen.
11 Da rief der Prophet Jesaja zu Jehova; und er ließ den Schatten an den Graden, welche er am Sonnenzeiger Ahas' niederwärts gegangen war, um zehn Grade rückwärts gehen.
12 Zu jener Zeit sandte Berodak-Baladan, der Sohn Baladans, der König von Babel, Brief und Geschenk an Hiskia; denn er hatte gehört, daß Hiskia krank gewesen war.

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