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Joshua 10:12

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On the day that the Lord handed the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke by the Lord in the presence of the Israelites, saying, “Sun, stand still over Gibeon! Moon, stand still over the Valley of Aijalon!”

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One day Abner and Ishbosheth's men left Mahanaim and went to the town of Gibeon.

“It's easy enough for the shadow to go forward ten steps, but not to go back ten steps,” Hezekiah answered.

So Isaiah the prophet asked the Lord, and he moved the shadow back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.

Isaiah replied, “This is the sign from the Lord to you that the Lord will do what he promised: Do you want the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”

and Beriah and Shema, who were family heads living in Aijalon and who drove away the people who lived in Gath.

Zorah, Aijalon and Hebron. These are the fortified towns in Judah and in Benjamin.

He is the one who can command the sun not to rise and the stars not to shine.

Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!

Yet what they say is heard all over the earth; their message goes to the whole world. God has made a home in the heavens for the sun.

You created the day, and also the night; you made the moon and the sun.

The Lord will come on the attack like he did to the Philistines at Mount Perazim, like he shook them in the Valley of Gibeon, coming to do what he has to do, his strange work; coming to act as he must, his unusual action.

Look, I will make the shadow made by the sun go back the ten steps that it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz. So the sun went back the ten steps that it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.”

Your sun will never set, and your moon will never wane, for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your time of mourning will end.

This is what happened in the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, in the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year. The prophet Hananiah, son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, told me in the Lord's Temple in front of the priests and all the people:

Yet it was I who was the one who destroyed the Amorites before you, even though they were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks. I destroyed them root and branch.

On that day, declares the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the land during the daytime.

But the Lord is in his holy Temple; let all the earth be silent in his presence.

The sun and moon stood still in the sky as your sparkling arrows flew and your spears flashed bright.

Be silent before the Lord, everyone, for he has risen from the holy place where he lives.

This person has done this by going to worship other gods, bowing down to them—or to the sun, moon, or any of the stars of heaven—which I have ordered you not to do.

When you look up at the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the heavenly bodies—don't be tempted to bow down to them. Don't worship them like all the other nations on earth in the way that the Lord has allowed.

The sun stopped moving, and the moon stood still, until the nation of Israel had inflicted defeat on their enemies. (This is recorded in the Book of Jashar). The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not go down for around a full day.

Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,

Then he died and was buried at Aijalon in the territory of Zebulun.

The stars fought from heaven. The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

Then Samuel prayed to the Lord, and that very day the Lord sent thunder and rain. Everyone was in absolute awe of the Lord and of Samuel.

After defeating the Philistines that day, killing them from Michmash to Aijalon, the Israelites were totally exhausted.




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