⁹After an all-night march from Gilgal, Joshua took them by surprise. ¹⁰The Lord threw them into confusion^m before Israel,ⁿ so Joshua and the Israelites defeated them completely at Gibeon.^o Israel pursued them along the road going up to Beth Horon^p and cut them down all the way to Azekah^q and Makkedah.^r ¹¹As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the Lord hurled large hailstones^s down on them,^t and more of them died from the hail than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.

¹²On the day the Lord gave the Amorites^u over to Israel, Joshua said to the Lord in the presence of Israel:

“Sun, stand still over Gibeon,

and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.^v”

¹³So the sun stood still,^w

and the moon stopped,

till the nation avenged itself on^b its enemies,

as it is written in the Book of Jashar.^x

The sun stopped^y in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. ¹⁴There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the Lord listened to a human being. Surely the Lord was fighting^z for Israel!

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Footnotes

bOr nation triumphed over

Cross references

mSee Ex 14:24
nSee Dt 7:23
oSee Jos 9:3
p Jos 16:3, 5; 18:13, 14; 21:22; 1 Sa 13:18; 1 Ki 9:17; 1 Ch 6:68; 7:24; 2 Ch 8:5; 25:13
q Jos 15:35; 1 Sa 17:1; 2 Ch 11:9; Ne 11:30; Jer 34:7
rver 16, 17, 21; Jos 12:16; 15:41
sSee Ex 9:18; Ps 18:12; Isa 28:2, 17; 32:19; Eze 13:11, 13
t Jdg 5:20
u Am 2:9
v Jos 19:42; 21:24; Jdg 1:35; 12:12; 1 Sa 14:31; 1 Ch 6:69; 8:13; 2 Ch 11:10; 28:18
w Hab 3:11
x 2 Sa 1:18
y Isa 38:8
zver 42; See Ex 14:14; Ps 106:43; 136:24; Isa 63:10; Jer 21:5