KJV King James Version
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.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
On 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.”
WEB World English Bible
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!”
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Then speaketh Joshua to Jehovah in the day of Jehovah’s giving up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he saith, before the eyes of Israel, ‘Sun—in Gibeon stand still; and moon—in the valley of Ajalon;’
Surrounding context — Joshua 10
9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, [and] went up from Gilgal all night.
10 And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, [and] were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: [they were] more which died with hailstones than [they] whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
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.
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 hasted not to go down about a whole day.
14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
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אָ֣זH227 · azthenיְדַבֵּ֤רH1696 · da.varto speak: speakיְהוֹשֻׁעַ֙H3091 · ye.ho.shu.aJoshuaלַֽיהוָ֔הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDבְּי֗וֹםH3117 · yomdayתֵּ֤תH5414 · na.tanto give: giveיְהוָה֙H3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔יH567 · e.mo.riAmoriteלִפְנֵ֖יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeבְּנֵ֣יH1121 · benson: childיִשְׂרָאֵ֑לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelוַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀H559 · a.marto sayלְעֵינֵ֣יH5869 · a.yineyeיִשְׂרָאֵ֗לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelשֶׁ֚מֶשׁH8121 · she.meshsunבְּגִבְע֣וֹןH1391 · giv.onGibeonדּ֔וֹםH1826 · da.mamto silence: stationaryוְיָרֵ֖חַH3394 · ya.re.achmoonבְּעֵ֥מֶקH6010 · e.meqValley (of Achor)אַיָּלֽוֹן׃H357 · ay.ya.lonAijalon
Cross-references
Habakkuk 3:11The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, [and] at the shining of thy glittering spear.Isaiah 38:8Behold, 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.Isaiah 60:20Thy 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.Joshua 10:13And 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 hasted not to go down about a whole day.Deuteronomy 4:19And 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 thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.Job 9:7Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.Isaiah 28:21For 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.Psalm 148:3Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.Psalm 19:4Their 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,Job 31:26-27If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness;Zechariah 2:13Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.Habakkuk 2:20But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.Psalm 74:16The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.Joshua 19:42And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,Deuteronomy 17:3And 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;Judges 12:12And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.Amos 8:9And 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:
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