2 Kings 20:10
Good News Translation
Hezekiah answered, "It's easy to have the shadow go forward ten steps! Have it go back ten steps."

New Revised Standard Version
Hezekiah answered, “It is normal for the shadow to lengthen ten intervals; rather let the shadow retreat ten intervals.”

Contemporary English Version
"It's normal for the sun to go forward," Hezekiah answered. "But how can it go back?"

New American Bible
“It is easy for the shadow to advance ten steps,” Hezekiah answered. “Rather, let it go back ten steps.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for the shadow to go forward ten lines: and I do not desire that this be done, but let it return back ten degrees.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for the shadow to go forward ten lines: and I do not desire that this be done, but let it return back ten degrees.

2 Kings 2:10 And he answered: Thou hast asked a hard thing; nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, thou shalt have what thou hast asked: but if thou see me not, thou shalt not have it.

2 Kings 3:18 And this is a small thing in the sight of the Lord: moreover, he will deliver, also, Moab into your hands.

Isaiah 49:6 And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth.

Mark 9:28,29 And when he was come into the house, his disciples secretly asked him: Why could not we cast him out? . . .

John 14:12 Otherwise believe for the very works' sake. Amen, amen, I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do: and greater than these shall he do.

Context
Hezekiah's Illness and Recovery
9And Isaias said to him: This shall be the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do the word which he hath spoken: Wilt thou that the shadow go forward ten lines, or that it go back so many degrees? 10And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for the shadow to go forward ten lines: and I do not desire that this be done, but let it return back ten degrees.11And Isaias, the prophet, called upon the Lord, and he brought the shadow ten degrees backwards by the lines, by which it had already gone down on the dial of Achaz.…
Cross References
2 Kings 20:9
And Isaias said to him: This shall be the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do the word which he hath spoken: Wilt thou that the shadow go forward ten lines, or that it go back so many degrees?

2 Kings 20:11
And Isaias, the prophet, called upon the Lord, and he brought the shadow ten degrees backwards by the lines, by which it had already gone down on the dial of Achaz.

2 Kings 20:9
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