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Joshua prayed in 10:
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3. be struck dumb, astounded, in amazement and fear
It was not possible physically. It was a supernatural event.
How to explain this miracle from a scientific perspective?
The Bible did not explain, and Joshua used poetic language, not a scientific one. It was a sustained miracle similar to the parting of the Red Sea but at an astronomical scale. God created the heavens and earth in the first place. Nothing was too difficult for him.
Strong's Hebrew: 1826. דָּמַם (damam) — 30 Occurrences12 At that time Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel,
“Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.” 13 And the sun stood still [H1826],
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3. be struck dumb, astounded, in amazement and fear
How was this possible physically?and the moon stopped [H5975], until the nation took vengeance on their enemies.
It was not possible physically. It was a supernatural event.
How to explain this miracle from a scientific perspective?
The Bible did not explain, and Joshua used poetic language, not a scientific one. It was a sustained miracle similar to the parting of the Red Sea but at an astronomical scale. God created the heavens and earth in the first place. Nothing was too difficult for him.
Gill commented:Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped [H5975] in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.
In the Chinese history (g) it is reported, that in the time of their seventh, emperor, Yao [堯帝], the sun did not set for ten days, and that men were afraid the world would be burnt, and there were great fires at that time; and though the time of the sun's standing still is enlarged beyond the bounds of truth, yet it seems to refer to this fact, and was manifestly about the same time; for this miracle was wrought in the year of the world 2554, which fell in the seventy fifth, or, as some say, the sixty seventh year of that emperor's reign, who reigned ninety years.
(g) Martin. Sinie. Histor. l. 1. p. 25.