Joshua 10:12

New Century Version

On the day that the Lord gave up the Amorites to the Israelites, Joshua stood before all the people of Israel and said to the Lord: “Sun, stand still over Gibeon. Moon, stand still over the Valley of Aijalon.”

Cross References

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood still in the sky; they stopped when they saw the flash of your flying arrows and the gleam of your shining spear.

Isaiah 38:8

The sun has made a shadow go down the stairway of Ahaz, but I will make it go back ten steps.’ ” So the shadow made by the sun went back up the ten steps it had gone down.

Isaiah 60:20

Your sun will never set again, and your moon will never be dark, because the Lord will be your light forever, and your time of sadness will end.

Isaiah 28:21

The Lord will fight as he did at Mount Perazim. He will be angry as he was in the Valley of Gibeon. He will do his work, his strange work. He will finish his job, his strange job.

Psalm 19:4

But their message goes out through all the world; their words go everywhere on earth. The sky is like a home for the sun.

Joshua 10:13

So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped until the people defeated their enemies. These words are written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and waited to go down for a full day.

Psalm 148:3

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

Job 9:7

He commands the sun not to shine and shuts off the light of the stars.

Deuteronomy 4:19

When you look up at the sky, you see the sun, moon, and stars, and everything in the sky. But don’t bow down and worship them, because the Lord your God has made these things for all people everywhere.

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent, everyone, in the presence of the Lord. He is coming out of the holy place where he lives.”

Habakkuk 2:20

The Lord is in his Holy Temple; all the earth should be silent in his presence.”

Psalm 74:16

Both the day and the night are yours; you made the sun and the moon.

Joshua 19:42

Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,

Deuteronomy 17:3

That person may have served other gods and bowed down to them or to the sun or moon or stars of the sky, which I have commanded should not be done.

Amos 8:9

The Lord God says: “At that time I will cause the sun to go down at noon and make the earth dark on a bright day.

Judges 12:12

Then Elon, the man of Zebulun, died and was buried in the city of Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

Judges 5:20

The stars fought from heaven; from their paths, they fought Sisera.

1 Samuel 14:31

That day the Israelites defeated the Philistines from Micmash to Aijalon. After that, they were very tired.

2 Samuel 2:12

Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul left Mahanaim and went to Gibeon.

2 Kings 20:11

Then Isaiah the prophet called to the Lord, and the Lord brought the shadow ten steps back up the stairway of Ahaz that it had gone down.

Jeremiah 28:1

It was in that same year, in the fifth month of Zedekiah’s fourth year as king of Judah, soon after he began to rule. The prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, from the town of Gibeon, spoke to me in the Temple of the Lord in front of the priests and all the people. He said:

Amos 2:9

“But it was I who destroyed the Amorites before them, who were tall like cedar trees and as strong as oaks— I destroyed them completely.

Joshua 21:24

Aijalon, and Gath Rimmon. There were four towns and their pastures.

1 Samuel 12:18

Then Samuel prayed to the Lord, and that same day the Lord sent thunder and rain. So the people were very afraid of the Lord and Samuel.

2 Kings 20:9

Isaiah said, “The Lord will do what he says. This is the sign from the Lord to show you: Do you want the shadow to go forward ten steps or back ten steps?”

2 Kings 20:10

Hezekiah answered, “It’s easy for the shadow to go forward ten steps. Instead, let it go back ten steps.”

2 Chronicles 11:10

Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron. These were strong, walled cities in Judah and Benjamin.