Joshua 10:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

On the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the Lord, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:12

Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ishbaal son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

2 Kings 20:10

Hezekiah answered, “It is normal for the shadow to lengthen ten intervals; rather, let the shadow retreat ten intervals.”

2 Kings 20:11

The prophet Isaiah cried to the Lord, and he brought the shadow back the ten intervals, by which the sun had declined on the dial of Ahaz.

2 Kings 20:9

Isaiah said, “This is the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has promised: Shall the shadow advance ten intervals, or shall it retreat ten intervals?”

1 Chronicles 8:13

and Beriah and Shema (they were heads of ancestral houses of the inhabitants of Aijalon who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath),

2 Chronicles 11:10

Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, fortified cities that are in Judah and in Benjamin.

Job 9:7

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

Psalm 148:3

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

Psalm 19:4

yet their voice goes out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. In the heavens he has set a tent for the sun,

Psalm 74:16

Yours is the day, yours also the night; you established the luminaries and the sun.

Isaiah 28:21

For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim; he will rage as in the valley of Gibeon to do his deed—strange is his deed!— and to work his work—alien is his work!

Isaiah 38:8

See, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.

Isaiah 60:20

Your sun shall no more go down or your moon withdraw itself, for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.

Jeremiah 28:1

In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying,

Amos 2:9

Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of cedars and who was as strong as oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

Amos 8:9

On that day, says the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

Habakkuk 2:20

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

Habakkuk 3:11

the moon stood still in its exalted place, at the light of your arrows speeding by, at the gleam of your flashing spear.

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.

Deuteronomy 17:3

by going to serve other gods and worshiping them—whether the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden—

Deuteronomy 4:19

And when you look up to the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, do not be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples everywhere under heaven.

Joshua 10:13

And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in midheaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.

Joshua 19:42

Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,

Joshua 21:24

Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands—four towns.

Judges 12:12

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

Judges 5:20

The stars fought from heaven; from their courses they fought against Sisera.

1 Samuel 12:18

So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

1 Samuel 14:31

After they had struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon, the troops were very faint,