Joshua 10:13

And the sun and the moon stood still, 1 Until God executed vengeance on their enemies; and the sun stood still in the midst of heaven; it did not proceed to set till the end of one day.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

In Context

12Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, in the day in which the Lord delivered the Amorite into the power of Israel, when he destroyed them in Gibeon, and they were destroyed from before the children of Israel: and Joshua said, 1 Let the sun stand over against Gibeon, 1 And the moon over against the Valley of Aijalon. 1

14And there was not such a day either before or after, so that God should hearken to a man, because the Lord fought on the side of Israel.

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Cross References

Numbers 31:2Avenge the wrongs of the children of Israel on the Midianites, and afterward thou shalt be added to thy people.

Joshua 10:14And there was not such a day either before or after, so that God should hearken to a man, because the Lord fought on the side of Israel.

Judges 16:28And Samson wept before the Lord, and said, O Lord, my Lord, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, O God, yet this once, and I will requite one recompense to the Philistines for my two eyes.

2 Kings 20:10And Hezekiah said, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return ten degrees backward on the dial.

Job 9:7Who commands the sun, and it rises not; 1 And he seals up the stars. 1

Matthew Henry on Joshua 10:8-15

The Sun and Moon Stand Still. ( b. c. 1450.) 7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour. 8 And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee. 9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night. 10 And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to… Read the whole commentary →

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