From our point of view here on earth the sun does rise in the morning and set at night. Why did Joshua address the sun rather than the earth? Did he believe the sun actually moved?Īs we have already mentioned, Scripture speaks in the language of appearance, the language of observation. We know that the sun does not move around the earth causing day and night but rather the earth revolves around the sun.
And there has been no day like that, before it or after it, that the Lord heeded a voice of a man for the Lord fought for Israel ( Joshua 10:12-14). Is this not written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hastened to go down for about a whole day. So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the people had revenge upon their enemies. Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel: Sun, stand still over Gibeon and Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.
In the tenth chapter of the Book of Joshua the following account is recorded: It is one of the favorite texts of unbelievers to demonstrate the ignorance of the writers of Scripture.
Whenever the subject arises concerning biblical events and their relationship to science, the story of Joshua and the sun standing still is usually brought up.
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