JOSHUA—NOTE ON Joshua 10:12 Sun, stand still suggests a cosmic miracle, in which the earth ceased rotating for a time. While scholars have proposed many other explanations for this amazing event, each one has difficulties. Each also fails to do justice to the claim that there has been no day like it before or since. The author’s emphasis is on the extraordinary answer that God gave to Joshua’s prayer: the LORD heeded the voice of a man. The Book of Jashar is also mentioned in 2 Samuel 1:18. It may have contained poetic accounts or songs of the deeds of heroes, but there are no surviving copies.

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