2 Kings 20:9

2 Kings chapter 20 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And Isaiah said, This shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And Isaiah said, This shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?

Context

v.8And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Jehovah will heal me, and that I shall go up unto the house of Jehovah the third day?

v.9This passage

v.10And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Matthew 16:1
And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and trying him asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
Mark 8:11
And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, trying him.
Luke 11:29
And when the multitudes were gathering together unto him, he began to say, This generation is an evil generation: it seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah.
Isaiah 38:7
And this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken: