Joshua 10:9–14

⁹So Joshua caught them by surprise, after marching all night from Gilgal. ¹⁰The Lord threw them into confusion^r before Israel. He defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, chased them through the ascent of Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah. ¹¹As they fled before Israel, the Lord threw large hailstones on them^a from the sky along the descent of Beth-horon all the way to Azekah, and they died. More of them died from the hail than the Israelites killed with the sword.

¹²On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the Lord in the presence of Israel:

“Sun,^b stand still over Gibeon,

and moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”

¹³And the sun stood still

and the moon stopped

until the nation took vengeance on its enemies.

Isn’t this written in the Book of Jashar?^A

So the sun stopped

in the middle of the sky

and delayed its setting

almost a full day.

¹⁴There has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord listened to a man, because the Lord fought for Israel.^c