This is not the literal rendering of the original.
Sun stand still verse.
Is it true that the sun stood still answer.
And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
12 on the day that the lord gave the amorites over to the israelites joshua spoke to the lord in the presence of israel.
Sun stand still over gibeon and you moon over the valley of aijalon so the sun stood still and the moon stopped.
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.
Joshua 10 12 14 may just relate the most amazing miracle of all time the day the sun stood still.
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.
And thou moon in the valley of ajalon.
2 he and his people were very much alarmed at this because gibeon was an important city like one of the royal.
Joshua prayed for the sun to stand still in order to have time to complete the victory.
O sun stand still.
Is not this written in the book of jashar.
Is this not written in the book of jashar.
Sun stand thou still.
On the day the lord gave the amorites over to israel joshua said to the lord in the presence of israel.
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.
For the book of jasher from which it is apparently a quotation see introduction sec.
And the sun stood still and the moon stayed until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies.
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.
The poetic form of this passage is clear to every one who has the smallest acquaintance with the laws of hebrew poetry.
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.