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Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”

2 Kings 20:10 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી2 રાજાઓ ૨૦:૧૦
હિઝકિયાએ જવાબ આપ્યો, “છાંયડો દસ અંશ આગળ વધે એ તો નાની વાત છે; એમ નહિ, પણ દસ અંશ પાછો હઠે.”
हिन्दी2 राजाओं २०:१०
हिजकिय्याह ने कहा, “छाया का दस अंश आगे बढ़ना तो हलकी बात है, इसलिए ऐसा हो कि छाया दस अंश पीछे लौट जाए।”

In context

8Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I will go up to the LORD’s house the third day?”

9Isaiah said, “This will be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has spoken: should the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”

10Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”

11Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.

12At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

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