8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, ^a“What is the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the Lord the third day?”  ‡

9 Then Isaiah said, ^a“This is the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing which He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees or go backward ten degrees?”  ‡

11 So Isaiah the prophet cried out to the Lord, and ^aHe brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.  ‡

12 ^aAt that time¹ Berodach-Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.  ‡