Berean Standard Bible

Joshua 10:7-14

7So Joshua and his whole army, including all the mighty men of valor, came from Gilgal.

8The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for I have delivered them into your hand. Not one of them shall stand against you.”

9After marching all night from Gilgal, Joshua caught them by surprise. 10And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah. 11As 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.

12On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel:

“O sun, stand still over Gibeon,O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”1

13So the sun stood stilland the moon stoppeduntil the nation took vengeanceupon its enemies.2

Is this not written in the Book of Jashar?3

“So the sun stoppedin the middle of the skyand delayed going downabout a full day.”4

14There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man, because the LORD fought for Israel.

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Notes

1. Joshua 10:12 See Jasher 88:63. ↩
2. Joshua 10:13 Or triumphed over its enemies ↩
3. Joshua 10:13 Or the Book of the Upright One, commonly cited as Jasher ↩
4. Joshua 10:13 See Jasher 88:64. ↩

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