Joshua 10:12

World English Bible (2000)

Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!"

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  • Hab 3:11 : 11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
  • Isa 38:8 : 8 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down."'"
  • Isa 60:20 : 20 Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
  • Deut 17:3 : 3 and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded;
  • Josh 10:13 : 13 The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn't this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of the sky, and didn't hurry to go down about a whole day.
  • Josh 19:42 : 42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
  • Judg 12:12 : 12 Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
  • Job 9:7 : 7 He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars.
  • Job 31:26-27 : 26 if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor, 27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
  • Ps 19:4 : 4 Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
  • Ps 148:3 : 3 Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!
  • Isa 28:21 : 21 For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
  • Hab 2:20 : 20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!"
  • Zech 2:13 : 13 Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!"

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  • Josh 10:13-15
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    13 The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn't this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of the sky, and didn't hurry to go down about a whole day.

    14 There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.

    15 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

  • Hab 3:11
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    11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

  • Josh 4:14-15
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    14 On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

    15 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Josh 10:6-11
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    6 The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, "Don't abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us."

    7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.

    8 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you."

    9 Joshua therefore came on them suddenly. He went up from Gilgal all night.

    10 Yahweh confused them before Israel, and he killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.

    11 It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than who the children of Israel killed with the sword.

  • Josh 5:13
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    13 It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"

  • Josh 20:1
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    1 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Josh 10:41-42
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    41 Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon.

    42 Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.

  • Josh 3:7-9
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    7 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

    8 You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, 'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'"

    9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God."

  • Josh 7:7-8
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    7 Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

    8 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

  • Josh 7:10
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    10 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you fallen on your face like that?

  • Josh 11:6-7
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    6 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire."

    7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell on them.

  • Josh 5:1
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    1 It happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

  • Josh 10:25
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    25 Joshua said to them, "Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight."

  • Josh 6:10
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    10 Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout."

  • Josh 10:27
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    27 It happened at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.

  • Josh 4:1
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    1 It happened, when all the nation had completely passed over the Jordan, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Exod 17:13
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    13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

  • Josh 8:13
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    13 So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

  • Exod 17:10
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    10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

  • Ps 121:6
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    6 The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

  • Josh 4:9
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    9 Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.

  • Josh 23:1
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    1 It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,