Joshua 10:12

New Living Translation

On the day the Lord gave the Israelites victory over the Amorites, Joshua prayed to the Lord in front of all the people of Israel. He said, “Let the sun stand still over Gibeon, and the moon over the valley of Aijalon.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:12

One day Abner led Ishbosheth’s troops from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

2 Kings 20:10

“The shadow always moves forward,” Hezekiah replied, “so that would be easy. Make it go ten steps backward instead.”

2 Kings 20:11

So Isaiah the prophet asked the Lord to do this, and he caused the shadow to move ten steps backward on the sundial of Ahaz!

2 Kings 20:9

Isaiah replied, “This is the sign from the Lord to prove that he will do as he promised. Would you like the shadow on the sundial to go forward ten steps or backward ten steps?”

1 Chronicles 8:13

Beriah, and Shema. They were the leaders of the clans living in Aijalon, and they drove out the inhabitants of Gath.

2 Chronicles 11:10

Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron. These became the fortified towns of Judah and Benjamin.

Job 9:7

If he commands it, the sun won’t rise and the stars won’t shine.

Psalm 148:3

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

Psalm 19:4

Yet their message has gone throughout the earth, and their words to all the world. God has made a home in the heavens for the sun.

Psalm 74:16

Both day and night belong to you; you made the starlight and the sun.

Isaiah 28:21

The Lord will come as he did against the Philistines at Mount Perazim and against the Amorites at Gibeon. He will come to do a strange thing; he will come to do an unusual deed:

Isaiah 38:8

I will cause the sun’s shadow to move ten steps backward on the sundial of Ahaz!’” So the shadow on the sundial moved backward ten steps.

Isaiah 60:20

Your sun will never set; your moon will not go down. For the Lord will be your everlasting light. Your days of mourning will come to an end.

Jeremiah 28:1

One day in late summer of that same year—the fourth year of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah—Hananiah son of Azzur, a prophet from Gibeon, addressed me publicly in the Temple while all the priests and people listened. He said,

Amos 2:9

“But as my people watched, I destroyed the Amorites, though they were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks. I destroyed the fruit on their branches and dug out their roots.

Amos 8:9

“In that day,” says the Sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth while it is still day.

Habakkuk 2:20

But the Lord is in his holy Temple. Let all the earth be silent before him.”

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood still in the sky as your brilliant arrows flew and your glittering spear flashed.

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent before the Lord, all humanity, for he is springing into action from his holy dwelling.”

Deuteronomy 17:3

For instance, they might serve other gods or worship the sun, the moon, or any of the stars—the forces of heaven—which I have strictly forbidden.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And when you look up into the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the forces of heaven—don’t be seduced into worshiping them. The Lord your God gave them to all the peoples of the earth.

Joshua 10:13

So the sun stood still and the moon stayed in place until the nation of Israel had defeated its enemies. Is this event not recorded in The Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and it did not set as on a normal day.

Joshua 19:42

Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,

Joshua 21:24

Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon—four towns.

Judges 12:12

When he died, he was buried at Aijalon in Zebulun.

Judges 5:20

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

1 Samuel 12:18

So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people were terrified of the Lord and of Samuel.

1 Samuel 14:31

They chased and killed the Philistines all day from Micmash to Aijalon, growing more and more faint.