Joshua 10:13
The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.
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Numbers 31:2“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
Joshua 10:14There was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD listened to the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.
Judges 16:28Samson called to the LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”
2 Kings 20:10Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”
Job 9:7He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
Psalms 74:16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
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 →