Joshua 10:14

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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
day	כַּיּ֤וֹם kai.Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
before	לְפָנָ֣יו le.fa.Nav	H6440	the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
after	וְאַחֲרָ֔יו ve.'a.cha.Rav	H310	properly · conjunction + cardinal number, masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
LORD	יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
hearkened	לִשְׁמֹ֥עַ lish.Mo.a'	H8085	to hear intelligently (often with implication of attent… · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
voice	בְּק֣וֹל be.Kol	H6963	a voice or sound · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
man	אִ֑ישׁ 'Ish	H376	a man as an individual or a male person · noun, common masculine singular absolute
LORD	יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
fought	נִלְחָ֖ם nil.Cham	H3898	to feed on · verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Israel	לְיִשְׂרָאֵֽל le.Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · preposition + proper noun, a place name

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 1:30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
Exodus 14:14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Joshua 10:42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
Joshua 23:3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought fo…
Isaiah 38:8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned…
Mark 11:22-24 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
Luke 17:6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be…
Zechariah 4:6-7 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spir…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joshua 10:7-14

Here, I. Joshua resolves to assist the Gibeonites, and God encourages him in this resolve. 1. He ascended from Gilgal (Jos 10:7), that is, he designed, determined, and prepared for, this expedition to relieve Gibeon, for it is probable it was before he stirred a step that God spoke to him to encourage him. It was generous and just in Joshua to help his new allies, though perhaps the king of Jerusalem, when he attacked them, little thought that Joshua would be so ready to help them, but expected he would abandon them as Canaanites, the rather because they had obtained their league with him by fraud; therefore he speaks with assurance (Jos 10:4) of smiting Gibeon. But Joshua knew that his prom…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 10:12

THE SUN AND MOON STAND STILL AT THE WORD OF JOSHUA. (Jos 10:12-15) Then spake Joshua to the Lord . . . and . . . he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still . . . and thou, Moon--The inspired author here breaks off the thread of his history of this miraculous victory to introduce a quotation from an ancient poem, in which the mighty acts of that day were commemorated. The passage, which is parenthetical, contains a poetical description of the victory which was miraculously gained by the help of God, and forms an extract from "the book of Jasher," that is, "the upright"--an anthology, or collection of national songs, in honor of renowned and eminently pious heroes. The language of…

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Adam Clarke on Joshua 10:14

And there was no day like that - There was no period of time in which the sun was kept so long above the horizon as on that occasion. Some learned men have supposed that the Fable of Phaeton was founded on this historic fact. The fable may be seen with all the elegance of poetic embellishment in the commencement of the second book of Ovid's Metamorphoses; but I confess I can see nothing in the pretended copy that can justify the above opinion.

John Gill

The Church Fathers

What we say is that God not only stands outside the power of all necessity; he is its Lord and Maker. For in that he is authority and the very source whence authority flows, he himself does nothing through any necessity of nature or at the bidding of any inviolable law. On the contrary, all things are possible to him, including those we call impossible. To prove this, he established once for all the courses of the sun and moon, which are borne on their way by inevitable laws, and forever and ever will be thus borne, and at the same time to prove that nothing is to him inevitable but that all things are possible that he may choose, just once he made a special "day" that Scripture sets forth as a "sign," solely that he might the more proclaim, and in no way invalidate, that divine ordinance with which, from the beginning, he fixed the undeviating orbits of the stars.
— Nemesius of Emesa, ON THE NATURE OF MAN 38.55

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Dictionary and topics

Adoni-zedec — Lord of justice or righteousness, was king in Jerusalem at the time when the Israelites invaded Palestine (Josh. 10:1, 3). He formed a confederacy with the other Canaanitish kings against the…
Adonizedek — (lord of justice), the Amorite king of Jerusalem who organized a league with four other Amorite princes against Joshua. The confederate kings having laid siege to Gibeon, Joshua marched to the relief…
Joshua, The Book of — Contains a history of the Israelites from the death of Moses to that of Joshua. It consists of three parts: (1.) The history of the conquest of the land (1-12). (2.) The allotment of the land to the…
Makkedah — Herdsman’s place, one of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:16), near which was a cave where the five kings who had confederated against Israel sought refuge (10:10-29). They were put to…
Adoni-Zedek · A king of — A king of
Amorites · Kings of — Kings of
Amorites, The · Miraculous overthrow of — Miraculous overthrow of
Astronomy · SI — SI
Debir · 1. King of Eglon — 1. King of Eglon
Gibeon · confe — confe
Hebron · against Joshua — against Joshua
Jerusalem · The king of, defeated and slain by Joshua — The king of, defeated and slain by Joshua

Joshua 10:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joshua 10:7-14

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 10:12

Adam Clarke on Joshua 10:14

John Gill

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Joshua 10:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joshua 10:7-14

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 10:12

Adam Clarke on Joshua 10:14

John Gill

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Joshua 10:1-14

Keil & Delitzsch on Joshua 10:12-15

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Joshua 10:13

Rashi on Joshua 10:13