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11 the moon stood still in its exalted place,
    at the light of your arrows speeding by,
    at the gleam of your flashing spear.(A)

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Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
    touch the mountains so that they smoke.(A)
Make the lightning flash and scatter them;
    send out your arrows and rout them.(B)

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12 Out of the brightness before him
    there broke through his clouds
    hailstones and coals of fire.(A)
13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens,
    and the Most High uttered his voice.[a](B)
14 And he sent out his arrows and scattered them;
    he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 18.13 Gk: Heb adds hailstones and coals of fire

11 As they fled before Israel, while they were going down the slope of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down huge stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died; there were more who died because of the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.(A)

12 On the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the Lord, and he said in the sight of Israel,

“Sun, stand still at Gibeon,
    and Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.”(B)
13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped
    until the nation took vengeance on their enemies.

Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in midheaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.(C)

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See, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.[a](A)

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  1. 38.8 Meaning of Heb uncertain

21 For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim;
    he will rage as in the valley of Gibeon
to do his deed—strange is his deed!—
    and to work his work—alien is his work!(A)

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17 The clouds poured out water;
    the skies thundered;
    your arrows flashed on every side.(A)
18 The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind;
    your lightnings lit up the world;
    the earth trembled and shook.(B)

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yet their voice[a] goes out through all the earth
    and their words to the end of the world.

In the heavens[b] he has set a tent for the sun,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 19.4 Gk Jerome Compare Syr: Heb line
  2. 19.4 Heb In them