Verse 11

The sun and moon stood still in their places at the light of Your arrows as they flew, at the flash of Your shining spear.

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  • Ps 18:12-14 : 12 He made darkness His covering, His canopy around Him—the dark rain clouds of the skies. 13 Out of the brightness of His presence, His clouds advanced, with hailstones and burning coals of fire. 14 The LORD thundered from the heavens; the Most High uttered His voice, with hailstones and burning coals.
  • Ps 144:5-6 : 5 Lord, bend down Your heavens and come down; touch the mountains, and they will smoke. 6 Send forth lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and confuse them.
  • Isa 28:21 : 21 For the LORD will rise up as He did at Mount Perazim; He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon to do His work, His strange work, and perform His task, His alien task.
  • Isa 38:8 : 8 Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the sun on the stairway of Ahaz go backward ten steps. And the sun moved back ten steps on the stairway where it had gone down.
  • Ps 19:4 : 4 There is no speech; there are no words; their voice is not heard.
  • Ps 77:17-18 : 17 The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and trembled; even the depths were shaken. 18 The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth sound; Your arrows flashed back and forth.
  • Josh 10:11-13 : 11 As they fled before Israel down the road from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD hurled large hailstones down on them from heaven, and they died. More of them died from the hailstones than were killed by the swords of the Israelites. 12 On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.” 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon halted until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down for about a full day.