Exo 10:21-22, Jos 10:12, Dan 4:35, Amo 4:13, 8:9, Mat 24:29 | TSK | STEP | Stretch. darkness.As the Egyptians not only worshipped the light and sun, but also paid the same veneration to night and darkness, nothing could be more terrible than this punishment of palpable and coercive darkness, such as their luminary Osiris could not dispel. See Bryant, pp. 141-160. even darkness which may be felt. Heb. that one may feeldarkness.

Exodus 10:21-22

Stretch.

darkness.As the Egyptians not only worshipped the light and sun, but also paid the same veneration to night and darkness, nothing could be more terrible than this punishment of palpable and coercive darkness, such as their luminary Osiris could not dispel. See Bryant, pp. 141-160.

Ps 35:6; 78:49; 105:28; Pr 4:19; Ec 2:14; 6:4; Isa 8:21,22

Mt 27:45; Mr 15:33; Lu 23:44; 2Pe 2:4,17; Jude 1:6,13; Re 16:10,11

even darkness which may be felt. Heb. that one may feeldarkness.

thick darkness.

20:21; De 4:11; 5:22; Ps 105:28; Joe 2:2,31; Am 4:13; Re 16:10

Joshua 10:12

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; 148:3

Isa 28:21; 38:8; 60:20; Am 8:9; Hab 3:11

stand thou. Heb. be silent.

Hab 2:20; *marg:

Zec 2:13

Ajalon.

19:42; Jud 12:12

Aijalon.

Daniel 4:35

all.

Job 34:14,15,19-24; Isa 40:15-17,22-24

and he.

1Sa 3:18; Job 23:13; Ps 33:9-11; 115:3; 135:6; Isa 14:24-27

Isa 46:10,11; Mt 11:25,26; Ac 4:28; Eph 1:11; Php 2:10,11

the inhabitants.

Ps 33:8,14; 49:1; Isa 26:9

none.

Job 9:4,13; 34:29; 40:9-12; 42:2; Pr 21:30; Isa 43:13; Ac 5:39; 9:5

Ac 11:17; 1Co 10:22

What.

Job 9:12; 33:12,13; 40:2; Isa 45:9-11; Ro 9:19,20; 11:33-36

1Co 2:16

Amos 4:13

he that.This is a most powerful description of the majesty of Jehovah, the God of hosts.

Job 38:4-11; Ps 65:6; Isa 40:12; Zec 12:1

and createth.

Ps 135:7; 147:18; Jer 10:13; 51:16

wind. or, spirit.

Joh 3:8

and declareth.

Ps 139:2; Da 2:28; Mt 9:4; Lu 7:39,40; Joh 2:25

that maketh.

5:8; 8:9; Ex 10:22; 14:20; Isa 5:30; Jer 13:16

and treadeth.

De 32:13; 33:29; Mic 1:3; Hab 3:19

The Lord.

3:13; 5:8; 6:8; 9:6; Isa 47:4; 48:2; Jer 10:16; 51:19

Amos 8:9

that I.This is supposed to refer to an eclipse; and Abp. Usher has shown that about eleven years after Amos prophesied there were two great eclipses of the sun, one at the feast of tabernacles, and the other some time before the passover.

4:13; 5:8; Job 5:14; Isa 13:10; 29:9,10; 59:9,10; Jer 15:9; Mic 3:6

Mt 24:29; Re 6:12; 8:12

and I.

Ex 10:21-23; Mt 27:45; Mr 15:33; Lu 23:44

Matthew 24:29

Immediately.

8; Da 7:11,12; Mr 13:24,25

shall the.

Isa 13:10; 24:23; Jer 4:23-28; Eze 32:7,8; Joe 2:10,30,31; 3:15

Am 5:20; 8:9; Zep 1:14,15; Lu 21:25,26; Ac 2:19,20; Re 6:12-17

the powers.

2Pe 3:10