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12 On the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the Lord, and he said in the sight of Israel,

“Sun, stand still at Gibeon,
    and Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.”(A)

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11 the moon stood still in its exalted place,
    at the light of your arrows speeding by,
    at the gleam of your flashing spear.(A)

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See, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.[a](A)

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  1. 38.8 Meaning of Heb uncertain

20 Your sun shall no more go down
    or your moon withdraw itself,
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and your days of mourning shall be ended.(A)

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21 For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim;
    he will rage as in the valley of Gibeon
to do his deed—strange is his deed!—
    and to work his work—alien is his work!(A)

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Praise him, sun and moon;
    praise him, all you shining stars!

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yet their voice[a] goes out through all the earth
    and their words to the end of the world.

In the heavens[b] he has set a tent for the sun,(A)

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  1. 19.4 Gk Jerome Compare Syr: Heb line
  2. 19.4 Heb In them

26 if I have looked at the sun[a] when it shone
    or the moon moving in splendor,(A)
27 and my heart has been secretly enticed,
    and my mouth has kissed my hand,

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  1. 31.26 Heb the light

13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped
    until the nation took vengeance on their enemies.

Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in midheaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.(A)

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19 And when you look up to the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, do not be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples everywhere under heaven.(A)

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13 Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.(A)

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20 But the Lord is in his holy temple;
    let all the earth keep silence before him!(A)

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he commands the sun, and it does not rise;
    he seals up the stars;

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42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,(A)

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by going to serve other gods and worshiping them—whether the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden—

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On that day, says the Lord God,
    I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.(A)

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16 Yours is the day, yours also the night;
    you established the luminaries[a] and the sun.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 74.16 Or moon; Heb light

12 Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

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