The Bible In Paintings: The LORD Fights for Israel — THE SUN STANDS STILL!

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Bible In Paintings 2
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE

J O S H U A
CHAPTER 10

Then the five kings of the Amorites joined forces. They moved up with all their troops and took up positions against Gibeon and attacked it.

The Gibeonites then sent word to Joshua: “Do not abandon your servants. Save us!”

So Joshua marched up with his entire army, including all the best fighting men. The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them; I have given them into your hand. Not one of them will be able to withstand you.”

After an all-night march, Joshua took them by surprise. The LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great victory. Israel pursued them and cut them down. As they fled before Israel, the LORD hurled large hailstones down on them from the sky, and more of them died from the hailstones than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.

On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the LORD in the presence of Israel:
“O sun, stand still over Gibeon,
O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies.

The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the LORD listened to a man. SURELY THE LORD WAS FIGHTING FOR ISRAEL!

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still"

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FRANCESCO FONTEBASSO
"Joshua Lets the Sun Stand Still in the Battle"

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JOSEPH-MARIE VIEN
"Joshua Ordering the Sun to Stand Still"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Joshua Commandeth the Sun to Stand Still"

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JACOB STEMPKY
"Joshua Commands the Sun to Stand Still"

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CARLO MARATTI
"Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still"

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CARLO MARATTA
"Joshua Stops the Race of the Sun"

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"Joshua at the Battle of Gibeon"

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J. BRUNETTI
"Joshua Commanding the Sun and Moon to Stand Still"

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S ALLEN
"Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still"

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JOHN LAUTERMILCH
"The Day the Sun Stood Still"

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MARC CHAGALL
"Joshuah Stops the Sun"

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PAUWELS CASTEELS
"Joshua Stopping the Sun"

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Source

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GIOVANNI LANFRANCO
"Joshua Commanding the Sun and the Moon to Stand Still"

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"Joshua Commands the Sun and Moon to Stand Still"

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JOHN MARTIN
"Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon"

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JOHN MARTIN
"Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon"

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NICOLAS POUSSIN
"The Victory of Joshua over the Amorites"

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Source

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Destruction of the Army of the Amorites"

[Hebrews 11:6]

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[Hebrews 11:6]

J O S H U A
RAHAB AND THE TWO SPIES
ISRAEL CROSSES THE JORDAN RIVER
ISRAEL MARCHES AROUND JERICHO
GOD FLATTENS JERICHO
THE SUN STANDS STILL!

J U D G E S
DEBORAH AND BARAK WIN A WAR
JAEL'S TENT-PEG THRU NOGGIN TRICK
GIDEON MEETS THE ANGEL OF THE LORD
GIDEON, THE ALTAR, AND THE FLEECE
GIDEON'S 300 DEFEAT THE MIDIANITES

[Red Badger]

[Hebrews 11:6]

Love that movie. Richard Burton, Sean Connery and Red Buttons are hilarious.

[Red Badger]

Red Buttons was a great comedian..........................

[Phinneous]

A MUST READ! (At least the excerpt below the link)

https://thecjn.ca/perspectives/opinions/sun-stood-still/

Although not a religious man, in that moment his thoughts turned to God and to his family. If only he would receive a sign. And then he realized that as he was flying west at almost 2,000 kilometres and hour in the late afternoon, the sun was standing still for him – just as it had done for Joshua!

[Hebrews 11:6]

Although not a religious man, in that moment his thoughts turned to God and to his family. If only he would receive a sign.

No atheists in foxholes, or in cockpits.

[Phinneous]

Amen

[Hebrews 11:6]

That’s what he said.

[etabeta]

Wonderful 1st picture and Dore’ at #2. Maratta at #9; Casteels at #15 for the detailed and compelling scene he painted on this large canvas.

[cicero2k]

Science is coming around to the idea of pauses in earth’s rotation. Many biblical stories interpreted as fantasy are real. Earths crust may be magnetically connected to the core and is occasionally disconnected. Gravity itself is an expression of magnetic alignment and not an independent physical force.

[rusureitflies?]

In 8 & 9 what is the rod Joshua has in his hand?

[Hebrews 11:6]

You know how to pick ‘em, Alba.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Have to take your word on that.

There are several extraordinary physical phenomena recorded in Scripture, including the sun retreating ten steps for Hezekiah and the Christmas star for the Magi, for which God offers no explanation.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Ya got me.

[Red Badger]

The Rod of God

https://christonline.wordpress.com/2017/09/11/weapons-of-warfare-the-rod-of-god-the-staff-of-moses/

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

No explanation is necessary.......................

[Hebrews 11:6]

Is the Rod of God only a foot long? Because that is how it’s depicted in #8&9.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Agreed.