1 Kings 20

1 Kings 20:4

I am thine, and all that I have.

I do acknowledge myself a tributary unto thee, and yield myself over as thy liege-man.

1 Kings 20:9

All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do.

Thy first message, which challenged a power and interest in my silver, and gold, and houses, and land. I was willing to yield unto; but this, that thou shouldst utterly take them away out of my possession, I may by no means assent unto.

Shall the shadow go forward ten degrees? &c.

Shall the shadow in one moment skip over ten degrees, so as the day shall be so much shorter than ordinary?

1 Kings 20:11

And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow back ten degrees, by which it had gone down in the diol of Ahaz.

And Isaiah prayed earnestly unto the Lord; and he recalled the motion of the sun ten degrees back, from the point where it was; so as the day, which in ordinary course consisted of twelve hours, was now protracted to two-and-twenty: and that this retrograde motion might be sensibly discerned, he caused it to be apparently seen, and noted in the famous dial of Jerusalem, which was called by the name of Ahaz.

1 Kings 20:19

And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?

God hath dealt graciously with me herein; for I had well deserved a speedy judgment upon myself, in my own person, but lo, the mercy of God hath not proceeded thus against me, but hath, notwithstanding my offence, promised peace, and stability of his wonted grace to me, all my life.