Lièwángjìxià 20:10

10 Xīxījiā huídá shuō , rì yǐng xiàng qián jìn shí dù róngyi , wǒ yào rì yǐng wǎng hòu tuì shí dù .

Lièwángjìxià 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.

Lièwángjìxià 20:10 In-Context

8 Xīxījiā wèn Yǐsaìyà shuō , Yēhéhuá bì yīzhì wǒ , dào dì sān rì , wǒ néng shàng Yēhéhuá de diàn , yǒu shénme zhào tóu ne .

9 Yǐsaìyà shuō , Yēhéhuá bì chéngjiù tā suǒ shuō de . zhè shì tā gĕi nǐde zhào tóu , nǐ yào rì yǐng xiàng qián jìn shí dù ne . shì yào wǎng hòu tuì shí dù ne .

10 Xīxījiā huídá shuō , rì yǐng xiàng qián jìn shí dù róngyi , wǒ yào rì yǐng wǎng hòu tuì shí dù .

11 Xiānzhī Yǐsaìyà qiúgào Yēhéhuá , Yēhéhuá jiù shǐ Yàhāsī de rì guǐ xiàng qián jìn de rì yǐng , wǎng hòu tuì le shí dù .

12 Nàshí , Bābǐlún wáng Bālā dàn de érzi bǐ luó dá Bālā dàn tīngjian Xīxījiā bìng ér quányù , jiù sòng shūxìn hé lǐwù gĕi tā .