9. Isaiah said, “This is the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that He has spoken: Should the shadow walk forward ten steps or go back ten steps?”
10. And Hezekiah answered, “It is an easy thing for the shadow to stretch ten steps, so let it go back ten steps.”
11. Isaiah the prophet called to the Lord, and He made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.
12. At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been ill.
13. Hezekiah welcomed them and showed them all the treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine oil, all the armory, and all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
14. Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?”Hezekiah said, “They came from a distant land, from Babylon.”
15. He said, “What have they seen in your house?”Hezekiah said, “They have seen everything in my house. There is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”
16. Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord:
17. The days are coming when everything that is in your house and that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord.