Verse 11
The sun and moon stand still in their courses; the flash of your arrows drives them away, the bright light of your lightning-quick spear.
Referenced Verses
- Ps 18:12-14 : 12 From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals. 13 The LORD thundered in the sky; the Most High shouted. 14 He shot his arrows and scattered them, many lightning bolts and routed them.
- Ps 144:5-6 : 5 O LORD, make the sky sink and come down! Touch the mountains and make them smolder! 6 Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!
- Isa 28:21 : 21 For the LORD will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon, to accomplish his work, his peculiar work, to perform his task, his strange task.
- Isa 38:8 : 8 Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” And then the shadow went back ten steps.
- Ps 19:4 : 4 Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth; its words carry to the distant horizon. In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun.
- Ps 77:17-18 : 17 The clouds poured down rain; the skies thundered. Yes, your arrows flashed about. 18 Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
- Josh 10:11-13 : 11 As they fled from Israel on the slope leading down from Beth Horon, the LORD threw down on them large hailstones from the sky, all the way to Azekah. They died– in fact, more died from the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword. 12 The day the LORD delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the LORD before Israel:“O sun, stand still over Gibeon! O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!” 13 The sun stood still and the moon stood motionless while the nation took vengeance on its enemies. The event is recorded in the Scroll of the Upright One. The sun stood motionless in the middle of the sky and did not set for about a full day.