Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

Stand thou

Bible References

Sun

Joshua 10:13
The sun stood still and the moon stood motionless while the nation took vengeance on its enemies. The event is recorded in the Scroll of the Upright One. The sun stood motionless in the middle of the sky and did not set for about a full day.
Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look up to the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars -- the whole heavenly creation -- you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, for the Lord your God has assigned them to all the people of the world.
Deuteronomy 17:3
by serving other gods and worshiping them -- the sun, moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship.
Job 9:7
he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;
Job 31:26
if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,
Psalm 19:4
Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth; its words carry to the distant horizon. In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun.
Psalm 74:16
You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.
Psalm 148:3
Praise him, O sun and moon! Praise him, all you shiny stars!
Isaiah 28:21
For the Lord will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon, to accomplish his work, his peculiar work, to perform his task, his strange task.
Isaiah 38:8
Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz." And then the shadow went back ten steps.
Isaiah 60:20
Your sun will no longer set; your moon will not disappear; the Lord will be your permanent source of light; your time of sorrow will be over.
Amos 8:9
In that day," says the sovereign Lord, "I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.
Habakkuk 3:11
The sun and moon stand still in their courses; the flash of your arrows drives them away, the bright light of your lightning-quick spear.

Stand thou

Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in his majestic palace. The whole earth is speechless in his presence!"

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