Isaiah 38:7-8
7Isaiah replied, ▼ “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said: 8Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” ▼▼ Heb “the shadow on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, with the sun, back ten steps.”
▼▼ These steps probably functioned as a type of sundial. See HALOT 614 s.v. מַעֲלָה and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 256.
And then the shadow went back ten steps. ▼▼ Heb “and the sun returned ten steps on the steps which it had gone down.”
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