Discovery BoxJoshua 10:12-13
Context10:12 The day the Lord delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the Lord before Israel: 1
“O sun, stand still over Gibeon!
O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!”
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. 2 The sun stood motionless in the middle of the sky and did not set for about a full day. 3
Isaiah 28:21
Context28:21 For the Lord will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim, 4
he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon, 5
to accomplish his work,
his peculiar work,
to perform his task,
his strange task. 6
Isaiah 38:8
Context38:8 Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” 7 And then the shadow went back ten steps. 8
[10:12] 1 tn Heb “Then Joshua spoke to the
[10:13] 2 tn Heb “Is it not written down in the Scroll of the Upright One.” Many modern translations render, “the Scroll [or Book] of Jashar,” leaving the Hebrew name “Jashar” (which means “Upright One”) untranslated.
[10:13] 3 tn Heb “and did not hurry to set [for] about a full day.”
[28:21] 4 sn This probably alludes to David’s victory over the Philistines at Baal Perazim. See 2 Sam 5:20.
[28:21] 5 sn This probably alludes to the Lord’s victory over the Canaanites at Gibeon, during the days of Joshua. See Josh 10:10-11.
[28:21] 6 sn God’s judgment of his own people is called “his peculiar work” and “his strange task,” because he must deal with them the way he treated their enemies in the past.
[38:8] 7 tn Heb “the shadow on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, with the sun, back ten steps.”
[38:8] 8 tn Heb “and the sun returned ten steps on the steps which it had gone down.”
