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The sun delayed for others after this, e.g. Chizkiyah!

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Radak: The verse says that such a miracle will not happen again via someone's prayer. 1

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Malbim: (a) Other miracles are due to Hashem's desire, or via a Navi's Tefilah. Here, Yehoshua decreed! (b) Other miracles are to aggrandize Hashem's name, or to elevate Yisrael, or to save Yisrael. Only here, it was to show that Hashem fights for Yisrael.


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We find that the sun reappeared after it set, in response to the prayer of Nakdimun ben Guryon (Ta'anis 19b)! There, it was not an overt miracle; people could say that the sun had gone behind a cloud, and seemed to set. Alternatively, Nakdimun did not explicitly ask Hashem to make the sun appear again. (PF)

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