Joshua 10:12
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.
KJV
Tunc locutus est Josue Domino, in die qua tradidit Amorrhæum in conspectu filiorum Israël, dixitque coram eis : Sol, contra Gabaon ne movearis, et luna contra vallem Ajalon.
Vulgate
Τότε ἐλάλησεν Ἰησοῦς πρὸς Κύριον, ᾗ ἡμέρᾳ παρέδωκεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν Ἀμορραῖον ὑποχείριον Ἰσραήλ, ἡνίκα συνέτριψεν αὐτοὺς ἐν Γαβαὼν καὶ συνετρίβησαν ἀπὸ προσώπου υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ· καὶ εἶπεν Ἰησοῦς Στήτω ὁ ἥλιος κατὰ Γαβαών, καὶ ἡ σελήνη κατὰ φάραγγα Αἰλών.
LXX
Then spake Joshua to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah 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 Aijalon.
ASV
אָ֣ז יְדַבֵּ֤ר יְהוֹשֻׁעַ֙ לַֽ/יהוָ֔ה בְּ/י֗וֹם תֵּ֤ת יְהוָה֙ אֶת הָ֣/אֱמֹרִ֔י לִ/פְנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר לְ/עֵינֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל שֶׁ֚מֶשׁ בְּ/גִבְע֣וֹן דּ֔וֹם וְ/יָרֵ֖חַ בְּ/עֵ֥מֶק אַיָּלֽוֹן
Hebrew
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19 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Themes
Miracle
Historic Christian voices
8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Covers Joshua's conquest of Canaan (the crossing of the Jordan, fall of Jericho, the allotment of the land) and the period of the Judges (Othniel, Ehud, Deborah, Gideon, Jephthah, Samson). Josephus follows the biblical narrative closely while harmonizing chronological difficulties.
Cross-references
- 1Chr 6:69 — And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs:
- 1Sam 14:31 — And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
- 2Kgs 20:11 — And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
- Amos 8:9 — And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
- Deut 4:19 — And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD
- Deut 4:19 — And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD
- Deut 17:3 — And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
- Exod 34:10 — And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the w
- Gen 1:16 — And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
- Hab 2:20 — But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
- Hab 3:11 — The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
- Isa 28:21 — For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
- Isa 28:21 — For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
- Isa 38:8 — Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
- Isa 38:8 — Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
- Isa 45:11 — Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
- Isa 60:20 — Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
- Jas 5:16 — Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
- Job 9:7 — Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
- Job 9:7 — Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
- Job 31:26 — If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
- Josh 10:13 — 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
- Josh 19:42 — And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
- Judg 1:35 — But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.
- Judg 12:12 — And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.
- Luke 8:25 — And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.
- Ps 19:4 — Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
- Ps 37:7 — Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
- Ps 74:16 — The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
- Ps 148:3 — Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
- Zech 2:13 — Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.