This is not the literal rendering of the original.
Sun stand still verse.
Sun stand thou still.
10 now adoni zedek king of jerusalem heard that joshua had taken ai and totally destroyed it doing to ai and its king as he had done to jericho and its king and that the people of gibeon had made a treaty of peace with israel and had become their allies.
Sun stand still over gibeon and you moon over the valley of aijalon so the sun stood still and the moon stopped.
God answered his prayer.
And the sun stood still and the moon stayed until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies.
Is not this written in the book of jashar.
2 he and his people were very much alarmed at this because gibeon was an important city like one of the royal.
O sun stand still.
And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
13 and the sun stood still and the moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies.
The poetic form of this passage is clear to every one who has the smallest acquaintance with the laws of hebrew poetry.
Joshua prayed for the sun to stand still in order to have time to complete the victory.
O sun stand still over gibeon o moon over the valley of aijalon 13 so the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies.
12 then spake joshua to the lord in the day when the lord delivered up the amorites before the children of israel and he said in the sight of israel sun stand thou still upon gibeon.
Joshua 10 12 14 may just relate the most amazing miracle of all time the day the sun stood still.
The day the sun stood still 12 on the day that the lord gave the amorites over to the israelites joshua spoke to the lord in the presence of israel.
The sun stands still.
On the day the lord gave the amorites over to israel joshua said to the lord in the presence of israel.
For the book of jasher from which it is apparently a quotation see introduction sec.
Is this not written in the book of jashar.
The day the sun stood still 11 as they fled before israel along the descent from beth horon to azekah the lord cast down on them large hailstones from the sky and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the israelites.