Joshua 10:13
And the sun and the moon stood still, until the people had avenged themselves of their enemies. Has this not been written in the book of the just? And so the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and it did not hurry to its rest for the space of one day.
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Numbers 31:2“First, avenge the sons of Israel from the Midianites, and then you shall be gathered to your people.”
Joshua 10:14Never before and never after was there so long a day, as when the Lord obeyed the voice of a man, and fought for Israel.
Judges 16:28Then, calling upon the Lord, he said, “O Lord God remember me, and restore to me now my former strength, O my God, so that I may avenge myself against my enemies, and so that I may receive one vengeance for the deprivation of my two eyes.”
2 Kings 20:10And Hezekiah said: “It is easy for the shadow to increase for ten lines. And so I do not wish that this be done. Instead, let it turn back for ten degrees.”
Job 9:7He commands the sun and it does not rise, and he closes the stars as if under a seal.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 10:8-15
The Sun and Moon Stand Still. ( b. c. 1450.) 7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour. 8 And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee. 9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night. 10 And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to… Read the whole commentary →