Thoughts on 2 Kings 20: 8-11

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Was this done only as a sign? The Lord stopped time in other ocasions but there were also huge disruptions to the Earth.

Was there another reason for this or was it only just as a sign....

Curious.

Please provide input.

Thanks

[Hemidakota]

Being curious only opens the mind to expand upon deeper meanings in the gospel.

8 ¶ And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the asign 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 hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?

10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the ashadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

11 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.

Something here may aid you;

Hippolytus, (Bishop) of Rome on Hezekiah

When Hezekiah, king of Judah, was still sick and weeping, there came an angel, and said to him: "I have seen thy tears, and I have heard thy voice. Behold, I add unto thy time fifteen years. And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord: Behold, I turn back the shadow of the degrees of the house of thy father, by which the sun has gone down, the ten degrees by which the shadow has gone down," so that that day be a day of thirty-two hours. For when the sun had run its course to the tenth hour, it returned again. And again, when Joshua the son of Nun was fighting against the Amorites, when the sun was now inclining to its setting, and the battle was being pressed closely, Joshua, being anxious lest the heathen host should escape on the descent of night, cried out, saying, "Sun, stand thou still in Gibeon; and thou moon, in the valley of Ajalon," until I vanquish this people. And the sun stood still, and the moon, in their places, so that day was one of twenty-four hours. And in the time of Hezekiah the moon also turned back along with the sun, that there might be no collision between the two elemental bodies, by their bearing against each other in defiance of law. And Merodach the Chaldean, king of Babylon, being struck with amazement at that time - for he studied the science of astrology, and measured the courses of these bodies carefully - on learning the cause, sent a letter and gifts to Hezekiah, just as also the wise men from the east did to Christ. (VOLUME 5 - FATHERS OF THE THIRD AND FOURTH CENTURIES)