Joshua 10:12

New American Bible - revised edition

It was then, when the Lord delivered up the Amorites to the Israelites, that Joshua prayed to the Lord, and said in the presence of Israel: Sun, stand still at Gibeon, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon!

Cross References

Habakkuk 3:11

the moon left its lofty station, At the light of your flying arrows, at the gleam of your flashing spear.

Isaiah 38:8

See, I will make the shadow cast by the sun on the stairway to the terrace of Ahaz go back the ten steps it has advanced. So the sun came back the ten steps it had advanced. Hezekiah’s Hymn of Thanksgiving.

Isaiah 60:20

No longer will your sun set, or your moon wane; For the Lord will be your light forever, and the days of your grieving will be over.

Isaiah 28:21

For the Lord shall rise up as on Mount Perazim, bestir himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, To carry out his work—strange his work! to perform his deed—alien his deed!

Psalm 19:4

There is no speech, no words; their voice is not heard;

Joshua 10:13

The sun stood still, the moon stayed, while the nation took vengeance on its foes. This is recorded in the Book of Jashar. The sun halted halfway across the heavens; not for an entire day did it press on.

Psalm 148:3

Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all shining stars.

Job 9:7

He commands the sun, and it does not rise; he seals up the stars.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And when you look up to the heavens and behold the sun or the moon or the stars, the whole heavenly host, do not be led astray into bowing down to them and serving them. These the Lord, your God, has apportioned to all the other nations under the heavens;

Zechariah 2:13

Now I wave my hand over them, and they become plunder for their own servants. Thus you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.

Habakkuk 2:20

But the Lord is in his holy temple; silence before him, all the earth!

Psalm 74:16

Yours the day and yours the night too; you set the moon and sun in place.

Joshua 19:42

Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,

Deuteronomy 17:3

by going to serve other gods, by bowing down to them, to the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, contrary to my command;

Amos 8:9

On that day—oracle of the Lord God— I will make the sun set at midday and in broad daylight cover the land with darkness.

Judges 12:12

Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. Abdon.

Judges 5:20

From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.

1 Samuel 14:31

After the Philistines were routed that day from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were completely exhausted.

2 Samuel 2:12

Now Abner, son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbaal, Saul’s son, set out from Mahanaim for Gibeon.

2 Kings 20:11

So Isaiah the prophet invoked the Lord. He made the shadow go back the ten steps it had descended on the staircase to the terrace of Ahaz.

Jeremiah 28:1

That same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the prophet, son of Azzur, from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the Lord in the sight of the priests and all the people:

Amos 2:9

Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites before them, who were as tall as cedars, and as strong as oak trees. I destroyed their fruit above and their roots beneath.

Joshua 21:24

Aijalon with its pasture lands, and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands: four cities.

1 Samuel 12:18

Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day. Assistance Promised. Then all the people feared the Lord and Samuel.

2 Kings 20:9

Isaiah replied, “This will be the sign for you from the Lord that he will carry out the word he has spoken: Shall the shadow go forward or back ten steps?”

2 Kings 20:10

“It is easy for the shadow to advance ten steps,” Hezekiah answered. “Rather, let it go back ten steps.”

1 Chronicles 8:13

and Beriah, and Shema. They were family heads of those who dwelt in Aijalon, and they put the inhabitants of Gath to flight.

2 Chronicles 11:10

Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron; these were fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.