Joshua 10:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel. ”

• Joshua 10:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  These four verses seem to be a fragment or extract taken from some other and independent source and inserted into the thread of the narrative after it had been completed, and inserted most probably...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD (f) fought for Israel. (f) By taking away the enemies hearts and destroying them w...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Defeat and Death of the Five Kings. Here we have the account of the famous battle of Bethhoron. Five kings band themselves together against Gibeon; the Gibeonites send for help to Joshua, who comes...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  14. And there was no day like that, etc We read in Isaiah and in the Sacred History, that the course of the sun was afterwards changed as a favor to King Hezekiah. ( Isaiah 38:5 ) For to ass...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel. And there was no day like that - There was no period of time in...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 12-14. Then spake Joshua, &c.— We may refer all that is necessary to say on this remarkable passage to the five following heads. I. The miracle itself, and the manner in which it i...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Joshua 10:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Conquest of Southern Canaan This chapter narrates the successful campaign against the five confederate chiefs of the S., who are roused by the fall of Jericho and Ai and the alliance with Gibe...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Beth-horon — is identified as Beit’ Ur. Azekah — is unknown. Makkedah. — Probably el-Moghâr. (11) Great stones from heaven. — Compare Job 38:22-23 , “Hast thou seen the treasures of the h...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XIX. THE BATTLE OF BETHHORON. Joshua 10:1-43 . OUT of the larger confederacy of the whole Canaanite chiefs against Joshua and his people recorded in the beginning of chap 9, a smaller n...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Lord Fought for Israel” Joshua 10:1-14 The honor of Israel was implicated in this attack on their confederates, and Joshua went to their assistance. The deception which had been practiced...

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• Joshua 10:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This action of the Gibeonites in securing their own safety aroused the anger of the confederate kings and they proceeded to act against Gibeon in order to punish it. In their peril the men of Gibeon...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  This memorable event, one of the most extraordinary we meet with in history, hath mightily amused sceptics. But it is the misapprehension of the thing itself, which hath occasioned their folly, and n...

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• Joshua 10:14 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  A WONDERFUL DAY! ‘No day like that!’ Joshua 10:14 We shall speak of the power and art of making the sun to stand still. How may we, like Joshua, virtually lengthen out our day of life, how m...

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• Joshua 10:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And there was no day like that, before it, or after it ,.... Which must be understood as referring not to natural days, or such as are according to the natural course of things, as those in the nort...

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• Joshua 10:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel. Ver. 14. And there was no day llke that. ] No, not Hezekiah's...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  There was no day like that Namely in those parts of the world in which he here speaks. Vain, therefore, is that objection, that the days are longer near the northern and southern poles, where they...

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• Joshua 10:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ISRAEL DEFEATS FIVE KINGS (vs.1-10) The news of Gibeon's treaty with Israel greatly alarmed other nations in the land, for Gibeon was considered prominent and important, so that the king of Jerus...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Sun and Moon Stand Still. B. C. 1450.       7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and al...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  There was no day like that, to wit, in those parts of the world in which he here speaks, and about which the comparison is here made: vain therefore is that objection, that the days are longer near...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Joshua 10:12-13 a ‘Then spoke Joshua to YHWH, in the day when YHWH delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun on Gibeon be silent (still)...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Joshua 10:12-15 THE VICTORY OF FAITH John says, “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith.” This triumph at Beth-horon is hardly less ow...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Joshua 10:1 . Adonizedek, lord of righteousness. Zedek was common in the names of the kings of Jerusalem, as Melchizedek. Joshua 10:11 . Great stones hail stones, as in many versions. So i...

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• Joshua 10:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE BATTLE OF BETH - HORON , AND THE SUBJUGATION OF SOUTHERN PALESTINE .— Joshua 10:1 Adoni-zedec (cf. Melchizedek in Genesis 14:18 ). The name given to t...

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• Joshua 10:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Defeat of the Five Kings on a Day of Miraculous Length

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• Joshua 10:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 20:10 ; 2 Kings 20:11 ; Deuteronomy 1:30 ; Isaiah 38:8 ; Joshua 10:42 ; Joshua 23:3 ; Luke 17:6 ; Mark 11:22-24 ; Matthew 21:21 ; Matthew 21:22 ; Zechariah 4:6 ; Zechariah 4:7

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• Joshua 10:14 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Kings Gather Against God Joshua 10:1-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Is the world approaching another world war? Is that war leading toward the final great war of wars? These and similar questions a...

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• Joshua 10:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  No day like that — Namely, in those parts of the world in which he here speaks, vain therefore is that objection, that the days are longer near the northern and southern poles, where they are const...

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