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.
Sun stand still verse.
Joshua prayed for the sun to stand still in order to have time to complete the victory.
Is it true that the sun stood still answer.
For the book of jasher from which it is apparently a quotation see introduction sec.
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 thou still.
On the day the lord gave the amorites over to israel joshua said to the lord in the presence of israel.
13 and the sun stood still and the moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies.
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.
O sun stand still.
The poetic form of this passage is clear to every one who has the smallest acquaintance with the laws of hebrew poetry.
This is not the literal rendering of the original.
Joshua 10 12 14 may just relate the most amazing miracle of all time 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.
And the sun stood still and the moon stayed until the nation had avenged themselves of their 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.
The sun stands still.
Is not this written in the book of jashar.
God answered his prayer.
Is this not 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.
Sun stand still over gibeon and you moon over the valley of aijalon so the sun stood still and the moon stopped.