Joshua 10:12

Contemporary English Version 1995

The Lord was helping the Israelites defeat the Amorites that day. So about noon, Joshua prayed to the Lord loud enough for the Israelites to hear: “Our Lord, make the sun stop in the sky over Gibeon, and the moon stand still over Aijalon Valley.” So the sun and the moon stopped and stood still until Israel defeated its enemies. This poem can be found in The Book of Jashar. The sun stood still and didn't go down for about a whole day.

Cross References

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood still, while your arrows and spears flashed like lightning.

Isaiah 38:8

Do you see the shadow made by the setting sun on the stairway built for King Ahaz? I will make the shadow go back ten steps. Then the shadow went back ten steps.

Isaiah 60:20

Your sun will never set or your moon go down. I, the Lord, will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will come to an end.

Isaiah 28:21

The Lord will fiercely attack as he did at Mount Perazim and in Gibeon Valley. But this time the Lord will do something surprising, not what you expect.

Psalm 19:4

Yet their message reaches all the earth, and it travels around the world. In the heavens a tent is set up for the sun.

Psalm 148:3

Sun and moon, and all of you bright stars, come and offer praise.

Job 9:7

or command the sun and stars to hold back their light.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And when you see the sun or moon or stars, don't be tempted to bow down and worship them. The Lord put them there for all the other nations to worship.

Zechariah 2:13

Everyone, be silent! The Lord is present and moving about in his holy place.

Habakkuk 2:20

Let all the world be silent— the Lord is present in his holy temple.

Psalm 74:16

You rule the day and the night, and you put the moon and the sun in place.

Amos 8:9

On that day, I, the Lord God, will make the sun go down at noon, and I will turn daylight into darkness.

Judges 12:12

before he died and was buried in Aijalon that belonged to the Zebulun tribe.

Judges 5:20

From their pathways in the sky the stars fought Sisera,

1 Samuel 14:31

By evening the Israelite army was exhausted from killing Philistines all the way from Michmash to Aijalon.

2 Samuel 2:12

One day, Abner and the soldiers of Ishbosheth left Mahanaim and went to Gibeon.

2 Kings 20:11

Isaiah prayed, and the Lord made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairway built for King Ahaz.

Jeremiah 28:1

Later that same year, in the fifth month of the fourth year that Zedekiah was king, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur from Gibeon came up to me in the temple. And while the priests and others in the temple were listening,

Amos 2:9

Israel, the Amorites were there when you entered Canaan. They were tall as cedars and strong as oaks. But I wiped them out— I destroyed their branches and their roots.

1 Samuel 12:18

Samuel prayed, and that same day the Lord sent a thunderstorm. Everyone was afraid of the Lord and of Samuel.

2 Kings 20:9

Isaiah replied, “The Lord will prove to you that he will keep his promise. Will the shadow made by the setting sun on the stairway go forward ten steps or back ten steps?”

2 Kings 20:10

“It's normal for the sun to go forward,” Hezekiah answered. “But how can it go back?”

1 Chronicles 8:13

Beriah and Shema were family leaders in the clan that lived in the town of Aijalon and that forced out the people of Gath.

2 Chronicles 11:10

Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron. After he had fortified these cities in the territories of Judah and Benjamin,