Since sundials were in use both in Egypt and in Babylon by the eighth century B.C.E., these steps could refer to the degrees of a sundial that Hezekiah’s father, Ahaz, might have acquired.
( यशया ३९: ५, ६) १०० वर्षे व आणखी थोड्या काळानंतर ही भविष्यवाणी पूर्ण होते.