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Dial
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A contrivance for indicating time by the sun’s rays
2 Kgs 20:11; Isa 38:8
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.
2 Kings 20:118 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.
Isaiah 38:8
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
