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.
"Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years
I am so weary of toil and of tears,
Toll without recompense, tears all in vain,—
Take them, and give me my childhood again."
The apostate Ahaz, king of Judah, was a barbarous, unprincipled and unscrupulous fellow believing in and practicing idolatry, witchcraft and spiritualism, — anything and everything void of principle, uprightness and honesty; but Hezekiah, his son, was of a different mould. He was one of the finest and most worthy kings that ruled over Israel. Hezekiah signifies "the might of Jehovah".
