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
And 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?

So the sun stopped
in the middle of the sky
and delayed its setting
almost a full day.
Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the array of heaven—do not be led astray to bow down and worship them. The Lord your God has provided them for all people everywhere under heaven.
Deuteronomy 17:3
and has gone to worship other gods by bowing down to the sun, moon, or all the stars in the sky—which I have forbidden—
Job 9:7
He commands the sun not to shine
and seals off the stars.
Job 31:26
if I have gazed at the sun when it was shining
or at the moon moving in splendor,
Psalm 19:4
Their message has gone out to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the world.


In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
Psalm 74:16
The day is Yours, also the night;
You established the moon and the sun.
Psalm 148:3
Praise Him, sun and moon;
praise Him, all you shining stars.
Isaiah 28:21
For the Lord will rise up as He did at Mount Perazim.
He will rise in wrath, as at the Valley of Gibeon,
to do His work, His strange work,
and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
Isaiah 38:8
I am going to make the sun’s shadow that goes down on Ahaz’s stairway go back by 10 steps.” So the sun’s shadow went back the 10 steps it had descended.
Isaiah 60:20
Your sun will no longer set,
and your moon will not fade;
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and the days of your sorrow will be over.
Amos 8:9
And in that day—
this is the declaration of the Lord God
I will make the sun go down at noon;
I will darken the land in the daytime.
Habakkuk 3:11
Sun and moon stand still in their lofty residence,
at the flash of Your flying arrows,
at the brightness of Your shining spear.

Stand thou

Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in His holy temple;
let everyone on earth
be silent in His presence.

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