Joshua 10
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Summary
The kings of the Amorites come together to fight against the Israelites, and are all destroyed. Hailstones fall from the sky upon the Amorites, and when Joshua commands the sun and moon to stand still during battle, they cease to move for a time. The kings of the Amorites are killed and hung by Joshua, and their bodies are tossed into a cave. The Lord fights for the children of Israel.
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Book of Mormon Central, “Why Did the Stripling Warriors Perform Their Duties ‘With Exactness’? (Alma 57:21),” KnoWhy 165 (August 15, 2016).
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Albert Barnes (1834)
Exposition of the Entire Bible
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Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch (1857–78)
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