And the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying, “Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.” ’
(Isaiah 38:4-6) NKJV
The sign of the sundial was a precursor to a main event: during the the night 185,000 soldiers of the Assyrian army became dead corpses. The Assyrian king fled to Damascus where he was killed by his own children.
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