2 Kings 20:9
King James Version
6 Jun 2026
“And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?”
מַעֲלָה
Steps, ascent, degrees. Mahalah. The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD. God orders every step. You are not stumbling through life. You are being led.
עָשָׂה
he will do
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עָשָׂה
To do, to make, to accomplish. Asah. God looked at everything He had made and called it very good. Your life is also His asah. He is still working on it.
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שׁוּב
will it go back
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שׁוּב
To return, to turn back. Shuwb. The Hebrew word behind both repentance and restoration. Return to Me and I will return to you.
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יְהֹוָה
Yahweh
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יְהֹוָה
LORD. Yahweh. The covenant name of God. I AM WHO I AM. The self-existent eternal One who was is and always will be.
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דָבַר
he has spoken
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דָבַר
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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הָלַךְ
it has gone
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הָלַךְ
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
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עֶשֶׂר
ten
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עֶשֶׂר
ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits)
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יְשַׁעְיָה
Isaiah
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יְשַׁעְיָה
Jeshajah, the name of seven Israelites
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