Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageWatch — I am turning the shadow backward on the stairway of Ahaz — the very steps the sun has already descended — back by ten steps.' And the sun reversed ten steps on the stairway by which it had descended.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GLook — I am causing the shadow to go back on the steps of Achaz — the steps by which the sun has gone down — backward ten steps.' And the sun turned back ten steps on the steps by which it had descended.
KJV
King James VersionBehold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleI will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.
Footnotes
The מַּעֲלוֹת (*ma'alot*) of Ahaz were likely a series of stepped degrees functioning as a sundial or a stairway-gnomon measuring solar movement. This miracle is not merely a stoppage of time (as in Joshua 10) but a *reversal* — the shadow going backward. Typologically, this mirrors the reversal enacted in Hezekiah himself: from death back toward life, from descent into the grave back into the days of the living. The sign embodies the message.
