Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Ruthy & Baruch <alster AT bezeqint.net>]

Walter quotes Callaway:

> "Joshua is quoted as saying "Sun, stand thou still (literally, be silent,
> don't shine) at Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Aijalon" (Joshua
> 10:12). If the sun was over Gibeon and the moon over Aijalon, the sun was
> rising in the east and the moon was setting in the west, and Joshua was
> asking for a prolongation of the night. The biblical interpreter, however,
> was not as sensitive to geography in this account as he was in the Ai
> account, so he claimed that the day was prolonged. Did he not know that
> Gibeon was east of the valley of Aijalon ?"

Could be, that it was MORNING, and Joshua stopped the sun from shining in
the Israelites' eyes, as they were fighting from east to west.

Baruch