It should be noted that the only accurate way people had of measuring time of day in biblical times was using the position of the sun. Therefore, even if Joshua did tell the sun and moon to stand in place, there would be no way for people then to know whether it acutally happened. People fighting the battle may have felt that it was dragging on indefinitely and wondered when it would end. If afterwards they heard that Joshua had told the sun and moon to stay in place, they may have believed it happened with no way of determining if it were true.HH: This seems like contradiction of the text. The text says something, and somebody three thousand years later comes along and denies what it says. The Egyptians used a waterclock at night. Sand clocks could be made (the hourglass), though their known origins don't go back to the time of Joshua:
Stephen Segall
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