4. And before Isaiah had gone out into the middle of the court, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
5. Turn again and tell Hezekiah, prince of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David, thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears; behold, I will heal thee; on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord.
6. And I will add unto thy days fifteen years, and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for my slave David’s sake.
7. And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
8. And Hezekiah had said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day?
9. And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees or go back ten degrees?
10. And Hezekiah answered, It is an easy thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees, but not for the shadow to return backward ten degrees.
11. Then Isaiah, the prophet, cried unto the Lord, and he caused the shadow to return by the degrees by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.
12. At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and presents unto Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
13. And Hezekiah hearkened unto them and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious ointment and all the house of his weapons and all that was found in his treasury; there was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.