And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
Ver. 11. And he brought the shadow.] Together with the body of the sun. This was the prodigy that the Babylonish ambassadors had observed and came to inquire of. 2Ch 32:31 The sun - which was their god - had honoured Hezekiah; therefore they were sent to honour him too with a visit and a present. And should not we therefore honour the saints whom Christ hath so honoured? a See on 2 Kings 20:9 .
Ten degrees backward.] Ten degrees, that is, five hours, as the most hold; so that that day was seventeen hours long, not twenty-two, as Junius will have it.
In the dial of Ahaz.] A famous dial, haply mural, and visible to Hezekiah out of his bedchamber.
a Abulens.