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Isaiah 38:7

Miracles and God's intervention

5 “Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

6 And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.

This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:

8 I 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.

9 This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:
KJV
And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
WEB
This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has spoken.
ASV
And this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:
DARBY
And this [shall be] the sign to thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:
BLB
And this [is] to you the sign from YHWH that YHWH will do this thing that He has spoken:
ÅB
Og dette skal du ha til tegn fra Herren på at Herren vil holde det han nå har lovt:
OTB
“‘Dette skal være tegnet for deg fra Herren at Han vil gjøre det Han har lovet:
B1930
Og dette skal du ha til tegn fra Herren på at Herren vil holde det han nu har lovt:

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 37:30

    And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

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  • Judges 6:37–39

    then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”

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  • 2 Kings 20:8–21

    Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”

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  • Judges 6:17–22

    Gideon answered, “If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that it is You speaking with me.

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  • Isaiah 7:11–14

    “Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.”

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  • Genesis 9:13

    I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

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  • Isaiah 38:22

    And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”

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