Joshua 10:11

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And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were on the decent to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Azeca, for the space of twelve miles. Hailstones, of an uncommon size, accompanied with thunder and lightning, Habacuc iii. 11. (Josephus, v. 1.) (Calmet) (Ecclesiasticus xlvi. 6.) Of the same nature was the seventh plague of Egypt, Exodus ix. 23. (Menochius) Real stones may very probably have been hurled against the enemy, by means of some hurricane or vulcano, which God directed against the Chanaanites. Several instances of showers of stones are recorded in history. (Calmet, Dissert.) Even quantities of stone and earth, sufficient to form new islands, have been thus thrown up. (Montfaucon.) The isle of Santorin, in the Archipelago, appeared in 1707.

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