At that time Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”
The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.
Behold, 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.
Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.
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 the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.
For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim; as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused; to do his deed—strange is his deed! and to work his work—alien is his work!
Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars!
Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor, and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand,
who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;
And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.
But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.”
Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.
Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden,
“And on that day,” declares the Lord God, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
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