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12 On the day the Lord gave the Israelites victory over the Amorites, Joshua prayed to the Lord in front of all the people of Israel. He said,

“Let the sun stand still over Gibeon,
    and the moon over the valley of Aijalon.”

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11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky
    as your brilliant arrows flew
    and your glittering spear flashed.

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I will cause the sun’s shadow to move ten steps backward on the sundial[a] of Ahaz!’” So the shadow on the sundial moved backward ten steps.

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Footnotes

  1. 38:8 Hebrew the steps.

20 Your sun will never set;
    your moon will not go down.
For the Lord will be your everlasting light.
    Your days of mourning will come to an end.

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21 The Lord will come as he did against the Philistines at Mount Perazim
    and against the Amorites at Gibeon.
He will come to do a strange thing;
    he will come to do an unusual deed:

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Praise him, sun and moon!
    Praise him, all you twinkling stars!

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Yet their message has gone throughout the earth,
    and their words to all the world.

God has made a home in the heavens for the sun.

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26 “Have I looked at the sun shining in the skies,
    or the moon walking down its silver pathway,
27 and been secretly enticed in my heart
    to throw kisses at them in worship?

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19 And when you look up into the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the forces of heaven—don’t be seduced into worshiping them. The Lord your God gave them to all the peoples of the earth.

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13 Be silent before the Lord, all humanity, for he is springing into action from his holy dwelling.”

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20 But the Lord is in his holy Temple.
    Let all the earth be silent before him.”

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If he commands it, the sun won’t rise
    and the stars won’t shine.

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13 So the sun stood still and the moon stayed in place until the nation of Israel had defeated its enemies.

Is this event not recorded in The Book of Jashar[a]? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and it did not set as on a normal day.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 10:13a Or The Book of the Upright.
  2. 10:13b Or did not set for about a whole day.

For instance, they might serve other gods or worship the sun, the moon, or any of the stars—the forces of heaven—which I have strictly forbidden.

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“In that day,” says the Sovereign Lord,
“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth while it is still day.

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16 Both day and night belong to you;
    you made the starlight[a] and the sun.

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Footnotes

  1. 74:16 Or moon; Hebrew reads light.

12 When he died, he was buried at Aijalon in Zebulun.

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