Sun Stand Still Bible Verse

Joshua 10 12 14 king james version kjv.

Sun stand still bible verse.

13 and the sun stood still and the moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. 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. 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. His command in the hebrew language was not sun stand thou still but sun cease acting or sun stop working it was then that the gravitational pull of the sun affected the earth.

13 and the sun stood still and the moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. And thou moon in the valley of ajalon. 2 he and his people were very much alarmed at this because gibeon was an important city like one of the royal. It was then the earth began to slow down and the day was lengthened robert boyd boyds bible handbook eugene oregon.

Is it true that the sun stood still answer. The sun stands still. So that is why joshua prays to jehovah and then says. It will be dark and many of the soldiers of the five bad kings will get away.

Joshua can see that soon the sun will go down. 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. Is this not written in the book of jashar. Harvest house 1983 p.

Joshua 10 12 14 may just relate the most amazing miracle of all time the day the sun stood still. 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. 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. On the day the lord gave the amorites over to israel joshua said to the lord in the presence of israel.

Though the bible mentions other cases of the sun standing still the story in the book of joshua is unique in that it also mentions the role the moon plays in the process. This led the scientists to conclude that the bible was relating a case of a solar eclipse in which the moon comes between the earth and the sun.