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Isaiah 40:21 & 22 "Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in."
Isaiah understood that God sits above the "circle of the earth" or as could be translated "globe".
2)Job 26:7 "He stretches out the north over empty space And hangs the earth on nothing."
Job understood the idea that the earth is suspended in space.
3)Job 26:10 "He described a circle upon the face of the waters, until the day and night come to an end."
Job also understood the movement of the sun and moon in circular patterns.
4)Proverbs 8:27 "When He established the heavens, I was there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,"
The word circle here is translated from a phrase that is applied to the curvature of the horizon when on the open ocean. This is the same physical evidence used by the greeks some 1,000 years later to make their own observations about a round earth.
Isaiah understood that God sits above the "circle of the earth" or as could be translated "globe".
2)Job 26:7 "He stretches out the north over empty space And hangs the earth on nothing."
Job understood the idea that the earth is suspended in space.
3)Job 26:10 "He described a circle upon the face of the waters, until the day and night come to an end."
Job also understood the movement of the sun and moon in circular patterns.
4)Proverbs 8:27 "When He established the heavens, I was there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,"
The word circle here is translated from a phrase that is applied to the curvature of the horizon when on the open ocean. This is the same physical evidence used by the greeks some 1,000 years later to make their own observations about a round earth.