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Isaiah 38
Book of Isaiah
Isaiah 38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine
house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord,
3 And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee
in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy
sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
4 Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,
5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I
have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days
fifteen years.
6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria:
and I will defend this city.
7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this
thing that he hath spoken;
8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in
the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by
which degrees it was gone down.
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Joshua 10:12 Then spake Joshua to the
LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the
Amorites before the children of Israel, and he
said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand
thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon,
in the valley of Ajalon.
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The sun dial = Hebrew the degrees by, or, with
the sun.
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Or, as the Hebrew might be rendered, "the steps
of Ahaz." The researches of curious travellers
in Hindostan, observes Bp.
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Stock, have lately discovered in that country,
three observatories of similar form, the most
remarkable of which is to be seen within four
miles of Delhi, the ancient capital of the Mogul
empire.
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A rectangled triangle, whose hypotenuse
is a staircase, (apparently parallel to
the axis of the earth,) bisects a zone, or
coping of a wall, which wall connects the
two terminating towers at right and left.
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The coping itself is of a circular form, and
accurately graduated, to mark, by the gnomon
above, the sun's progress before and after noon.
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Isaiah 66:18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will
gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
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Verses
7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this
thing that he hath spoken;
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Sign = a present visible token or pledge. This word is used eight times in the
"former" portion and three times in the "latter" portion = compare Hezekiah's
sign.
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Isaiah 38:7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will
do this thing that he hath spoken;
8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in
the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by
which degrees it was gone down.
9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was
recovered of his sickness:
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The shadow of the degrees = It is to these "degrees", or steps of the sundial of
Ahaz his father, that Hezekiah refers in the title for "The Songs of the
Degrees".
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Degrees = steps = Note the emphasis placed on these by the fivefold repetition
of the word.
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Dial = degrees (making the fifth repetition of the word).
9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was
recovered of his sickness:
10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I
am deprived of the residue of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I
shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut
off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day
even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from
day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes
fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I
shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16 O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my
spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul
delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind
thy back.
18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go
down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to
the children shall make known thy truth.
20 The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the
stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.
21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister
upon the boil, and he shall recover.
22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of
the Lord?
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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