7. Then Isaiah said, “Get a fig cake, and put it on the boil so that the king will get well.”
8. Hezekiah asked Isaiah, “What is the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I’ll go to the Lord’s temple the day after tomorrow?”
9. Isaiah said, “This is your sign from the Lord that he will do what he promises. Do you want the shadow to go forward ten steps or come back ten steps?”
10. Hezekiah replied, “It’s easy for the shadow to extend ten ⌊more⌋ steps forward. No, let it come back ten steps.”
11. Then the prophet Isaiah called on the Lord, and the Lord made the shadow that had gone down on Ahaz’s stairway go back up ten steps.
12. At that time Baladan’s son, King Merodach Baladan of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah because he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.