| 1824 - 418 pages
...Israel,*' should be connected with the command of Joshua, so that the passage will read thus : " And Joshua said, ' In the sight of Israel, sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ;' " expressive of his wish that the miracle should be conspicuous to nil the army. But although this... | |
| 1824 - 844 pages
...to face — Joshua, the friend of Moses, is made in the 10th chapter of the book of Joshua to say, " Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon." This circumstance might have been believed in the absence of astronomical knowledge, but... | |
| Books - 1825 - 392 pages
...now hear of Joshua who made the Sun and Moon to stand still " in the sight of Israel" — saying, " Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou Moon,...their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? so the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.... | |
| Henry Southern - 1825 - 388 pages
...now hear of Joshua who made the Sun and Moon to stand still " in the sight of Israel" — saying, " Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou Moon,...their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? so the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.... | |
| Books - 1825 - 390 pages
...We now hear of Joshua who made the Sun and Moon to stand still "in the sight of Israel"— saying, " Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou Moon,...their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? so the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 626 pages
...first in Josh. x. 13. where tho quotation is evidently poetical, and forms exactly three distiches. " Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, And thou moon,...Ajalon : And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed her course, Until the people were avenged of their enemies. And the sun tarried in the midst of the... | |
| Pendlebury Houghton - 1825 - 322 pages
...the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makhedah." Then cried Joshua in the sight of Israel, " Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon:" Stop, and lengthen out the day, and point thy beams upon our enemies, that the shades of... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 622 pages
...poetical, and fo/ms exactly three distiches. " Sun. stand thou stiJl upon Gibeon, And thou moon, in tho valley of Ajalon : And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed her course, Until the people were avenged of their enemies. And the sun tarried in the midst of the... | |
| Freedom of the press - 1825 - 546 pages
...to face — Joshua, the friend of Moses, is made in the 10th chapter of the book of Joshua to say, " Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon." This circumstance might have been believed in the absence of astronomical knowledge, but... | |
| Classical philology - 1825 - 396 pages
...was going down on the horizon (DVOiyn ^STQ), what could be more natural than the words of the text, " Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon ?" As to the assertion in the first clause of this argument, that half the world must have... | |
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