Genesis 1:16-18
to rule. Heb. for the rule, etc.De 4:19; Jos 10:12-14; Job 31:26; 38:7; Ps 8:3; 19:6; 74:16Ps 136:7,8,9; 148:3,5; Isa 13:10; 24:23; 45:7; Hab 3:11; Mt 24:29Mt 27:45; 1Co 15:41; Re 16:8,9; 21:23he made the stars also. Or, with the stars also. 9:13; Job 38:12; Ps 8:1,3; Ac 13:47 Ps 19:6; Jer 31:35Joshua 10:12-13
Sun.Joshua doubtless acted, on this occasion, by an immediate impulse upon his mind from the Spirit of God. The terms here employed to record the miracle, agree with the accustomed manner in which the the motions of the earth and sun are described in our own day. The sun apparently moves, but really is stationary; while the diurnal movement of the earth on its axis is by us unnoticed, and would not have been known except by astronomical science. The sun appeared to the Israelites over Gibeon, and the moon over the valley of Ajalon, and there they stayed in their course for "a whole day." Many vain enquiries have been made concerning the way in which this miracle was wrought, and many difficulties and objections have been urged against understanding it literally. But the fact is authenticated by the Divine testimony; and the manner in which it was accomplished lies entirely out of our province, because beyond our comprehension. 13; De 4:19; 17:3; Job 9:7; 31:26,27; Ps 19:4; 74:16; 148:3Isa 28:21; 38:8; 60:20; Am 8:9; Hab 3:11stand thou. Heb. be silent.Hab 2:20; *marg:Zec 2:13Ajalon.19:42; Jud 12:12Aijalon. until.Nu 31:2; Jud 5:2; 16:28; Es 8:13; Lu 18:7; Re 6:10Jasher. or, the upright.Nu 21:14; 2Sa 1:18So the sun.11,14; Ps 19:4; 74:16,17; 136:7-9; 148:3; Isa 24:23; 38:8Joe 2:10,31; 3:15; Mt 5:45; 24:29; Ac 2:20; Re 6:12; 8:12; 16:8,9Re 21:23Nehemiah 9:6
even thou.De 6:4; 2Ki 19:15,19; Ps 86:10; Isa 37:16,20; 43:10; 44:6,8Mr 12:29,30; Joh 10:30thou hast.Ge 1:1; 2:1; Eze 20:11; Ps 33:6; 136:5-9; 146:6; Jer 10:11,12Col 1:15,16; Re 4:11; 14:7the heaven.De 10:14; 1Ki 8:27preservest.Ps 36:6; Col 1:17; Heb 1:3the host.Ge 2:1; 32:2; 1Ki 22:19; Ps 103:21; 148:2-4; Isa 6:2,3; Heb 1:6Re 5:11-13Psalms 74:16-17
The day.136:7-9; Ge 1:3-5prepared.8:3; 19:1-6; 136:7-9; Ge 1:14-18; Mt 5:45 set.24:1,2; De 32:8; Ac 17:26made summer. Heb. made them summer.Ge 8:22; Ac 14:17Psalms 136:7-9
74:16,17; 104:19; Ge 1:14-19; De 4:19 The sun.148:3; Jer 31:35; Mt 5:45to rule. Heb. for the rulings. The moon and stars.The sun is the monarch of day, the state of light; the moon of the night, the state of darkness. The rays of the sun falling on the atmosphere, are refracted and diffused over the whole of the hemisphere of the earth immediately under his orb; while those rays of that vast luminary which, because of the earth's smallness in comparison with the sun, are diffused on all sides beyond the earth, falling on the opaque disc of the moon, are reflected back on the lower hemisphere, or the part of the earth opposite the sun. But the reflected light being 50,000 times less in intensity than that of the sun, there is a sufficient distinction between day and night, though each is ruled and determined by one of these two great lights. 8:3; 89:36,37; Job 31:26Psalms 148:3-5
sun.8:1-3; 19:1-6; 89:36,37; 136:7-9; Ge 1:14-16; 8:22; De 4:19Jer 33:20 heavens.113:6; 1Ki 8:27; 2Co 12:2waters.104:3; Ge 1:7; 7:11 for he.33:6-9; 95:5; Ge 1:1,2,6; Jer 10:11-13; Am 9:6; Re 4:11
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