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It was interesting when I looked for this on the Internet. The scientists resolve this contradiction using Hebrew etymology. Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits. 10:13). Joshua 10:13 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Joshua 10:13, NIV: "So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar.The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day." 5, May 1978, Caldwell, Idaho.). If we would simply go back to the biblical text itself, we would see that the day didn’t go anywhere; we’re told only that the “sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day” (Jos. Interpretations of Joshua 10:12-14 presents five major interpretations of the day "the sun stopped in the middle of the sky." It was interesting when I looked for this on the Internet. Leah: The Woman No Man Loved But Every Woman Envied (Gen. 29:15-35), 1. Joshua commands the sun to stand still (Wikimedia) ... Their explanation, a solar eclipse, is precisely the opposite: the sun disappearing at a time it normally appears in the sky. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong either with the information fed into it, or with the results as compared to the standards. The “missing day found” story is simply a Christian urban myth (this and other such legends really hurt the apologetic cause, unfortunately). “The story predates Hill’s NASA version, and goes back to Charles A. L. Totten’s “Joshua’s Long Day and the Dial of Ahaz: A Scientific Vindication” (1890). This is the fact here attested, and this we are bound to believe on the divine testimony.
Another writer http://answering-islam.org notes that the “July 1989 issue of “Bible-Science Newsletter” carries an excellent article which debunks this farce.” See also newsletter “Reason & Revelation,” August 1989, p. 31, published by Apologetics Press http://www.ApologeticsPress.org. When we get to the sun standing still and the moon, this is hard to come up with some kind of a naturalistic explanation.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible. Joshua’s poetical exclamation and the report of the miraculous victory were preserved in the “book of Jasher”, apparently, an early collection of poetic songs commemorating Israel’s heroic deeds (compare 2 Sam. So he needed to have more day light to win the war. “How does the devout Bible student explain the ‘long day’ that is related in the book of Joshua?” Joshua, chapter 10, contains the account of a great battle between the children of Israel and the pagan Amorites. Additionally, the historical lore of the Aztecs, Peruvians, and Babylonians speak of a “day of twice natural length.” See http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tword16a.htm ; see also Immanuel Velikovsky’s “Worlds in Collision.” If Joshua’s long day (not “missing” day) occurred—and of course I believe that it did—then we would expect its effects to show up in the historical records of other nations, and that is exactly what we find. 10:13). Unfortunately there are so many Christians who do not first check out a story before they begin to use it in their apologetics. Joshua 10:13 Context. (1-5) Adoni-Zedek and his fear of Israel. 1. 13. Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore Maryland, and a consultant in the space program, relates the following development: I think one of the most amazing things that God has for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland.
And the sun stood still, etc The question how the sun stood in Gibeon, is no less unseasonably raised by some than unskillfully explained by others. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua’s day was 23 hours and 20 minutes-not a whole day. One good resource to refer to would be the Christian Research Institute http://www.equip.org . There is apologetic value in ancient legends from various parts of the globe, however, including the following: “It is reported by historians that records of the Chinese during the reign of Emperor Yeo, who lived at the same time as Joshua, report ‘a long day.’ Also, Heroditus, a Greek historian, wrote that an account of ‘a long day’ appears in records of Egyptian priests. They were checking the position of the sun, moon, and planets out in space where they would be, 100 years and 1000 years from now. I simply entered “missing day” in my search engine, and under Yahoo came up with dozens of results.
(Logos International was a Christian publisher with no qualms about publishing phony testimonies—it also published Mike Warnke’s “The Satan Seller,” Michael Esses’ “Michael, Michael, Why Do You Hate Me?”, and Fernand Navarra’s “Noah’s Ark—I Touched It,” all of which have been debunked.)”. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! Characters), The Net Pastor’s Journal, Eng Ed, Issue 37, Fall 2020, http://www.57piano.com/scispks.htm#Mark11, http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tword16a.htm. There was no answer.
11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, … Joshua 10:13. It was interesting when I looked for this on the Internet. Resources » Matthew Henry's Commentary » Joshua » Chapter 1 » Verses 10–13 Verses 10–13 Joshua, being settled in the government, immediately applies himself to business; not to take state or to take his pleasure, but to further the work of God among, the people over whom God had set him. That’s right-”The sun stood still and the moon stayed-and hasted not to go down about a whole day!” ... (Jos. A miraculous victory for Israel. I have read similar debunkings in sources I trust. They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries and it came to a halt. Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! They called in the service department to check it out and they said “what’s wrong?” Well they found there is a day missing in space, in elapsed time.
“How does the devout Bible student explain the ‘long day’ that is related in the book of Joshua?” Joshua, chapter 10, contains the account of a great battle between the children of Israel and the pagan Amorites. Joshua 10:13.
And the sun stood still — God heard Joshua’s request, and gave him the thing he asked for, a prolongation of the day to near twice the length of any other day. Joshua 10:12–13, "Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “O sun, stand still at Gibeon, And O moon in the valley of Aijalon.” 13 So the sun stood still, and the moon … Even without scientific knowledge we can deduce this simply on the basis of logic: that day long ago was not “missing”—-it simply paused, and then resumed. In a discussion group one writer had this to say: “This story has been circulating in its NASA version at least since the 1960s, largely due to its promulgation by one Harold Hill, who says that he was present at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center when the above events allegedly took place. Special care has been given to rightly understand whether the sun and mon standing in the sky is to be understood as a miracle or not. Joshua ascended — Having no doubt asked advice of God first, which is implied by the answer God gives him, verse 8.. All the mighty men — That is, an army of the most valiant men picked out from the rest; for it is not probable, either that he would take so many hundred thousands with him, which would have hindered one another, or that he would leave the camp without an army to defend it. I simply entered “missing day” in my search engine, and under Yahoo came up with dozens of results. It was a miracle.Joshua prayed to God to help him win the war. Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in Second Kings make the missing day in the universe!
It was interesting when I looked for this on the Internet. The scientists resolve this contradiction using Hebrew etymology. Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits. 10:13). Joshua 10:13 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Joshua 10:13, NIV: "So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar.The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day." 5, May 1978, Caldwell, Idaho.). If we would simply go back to the biblical text itself, we would see that the day didn’t go anywhere; we’re told only that the “sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day” (Jos. Interpretations of Joshua 10:12-14 presents five major interpretations of the day "the sun stopped in the middle of the sky." It was interesting when I looked for this on the Internet. Leah: The Woman No Man Loved But Every Woman Envied (Gen. 29:15-35), 1. Joshua commands the sun to stand still (Wikimedia) ... Their explanation, a solar eclipse, is precisely the opposite: the sun disappearing at a time it normally appears in the sky. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong either with the information fed into it, or with the results as compared to the standards. The “missing day found” story is simply a Christian urban myth (this and other such legends really hurt the apologetic cause, unfortunately). “The story predates Hill’s NASA version, and goes back to Charles A. L. Totten’s “Joshua’s Long Day and the Dial of Ahaz: A Scientific Vindication” (1890). This is the fact here attested, and this we are bound to believe on the divine testimony.
Another writer http://answering-islam.org notes that the “July 1989 issue of “Bible-Science Newsletter” carries an excellent article which debunks this farce.” See also newsletter “Reason & Revelation,” August 1989, p. 31, published by Apologetics Press http://www.ApologeticsPress.org. When we get to the sun standing still and the moon, this is hard to come up with some kind of a naturalistic explanation.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible. Joshua’s poetical exclamation and the report of the miraculous victory were preserved in the “book of Jasher”, apparently, an early collection of poetic songs commemorating Israel’s heroic deeds (compare 2 Sam. So he needed to have more day light to win the war. “How does the devout Bible student explain the ‘long day’ that is related in the book of Joshua?” Joshua, chapter 10, contains the account of a great battle between the children of Israel and the pagan Amorites. Additionally, the historical lore of the Aztecs, Peruvians, and Babylonians speak of a “day of twice natural length.” See http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tword16a.htm ; see also Immanuel Velikovsky’s “Worlds in Collision.” If Joshua’s long day (not “missing” day) occurred—and of course I believe that it did—then we would expect its effects to show up in the historical records of other nations, and that is exactly what we find. 10:13). Unfortunately there are so many Christians who do not first check out a story before they begin to use it in their apologetics. Joshua 10:13 Context. (1-5) Adoni-Zedek and his fear of Israel. 1. 13. Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore Maryland, and a consultant in the space program, relates the following development: I think one of the most amazing things that God has for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland.
And the sun stood still, etc The question how the sun stood in Gibeon, is no less unseasonably raised by some than unskillfully explained by others. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua’s day was 23 hours and 20 minutes-not a whole day. One good resource to refer to would be the Christian Research Institute http://www.equip.org . There is apologetic value in ancient legends from various parts of the globe, however, including the following: “It is reported by historians that records of the Chinese during the reign of Emperor Yeo, who lived at the same time as Joshua, report ‘a long day.’ Also, Heroditus, a Greek historian, wrote that an account of ‘a long day’ appears in records of Egyptian priests. They were checking the position of the sun, moon, and planets out in space where they would be, 100 years and 1000 years from now. I simply entered “missing day” in my search engine, and under Yahoo came up with dozens of results.
(Logos International was a Christian publisher with no qualms about publishing phony testimonies—it also published Mike Warnke’s “The Satan Seller,” Michael Esses’ “Michael, Michael, Why Do You Hate Me?”, and Fernand Navarra’s “Noah’s Ark—I Touched It,” all of which have been debunked.)”. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! Characters), The Net Pastor’s Journal, Eng Ed, Issue 37, Fall 2020, http://www.57piano.com/scispks.htm#Mark11, http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tword16a.htm. There was no answer.
11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, … Joshua 10:13. It was interesting when I looked for this on the Internet. Resources » Matthew Henry's Commentary » Joshua » Chapter 1 » Verses 10–13 Verses 10–13 Joshua, being settled in the government, immediately applies himself to business; not to take state or to take his pleasure, but to further the work of God among, the people over whom God had set him. That’s right-”The sun stood still and the moon stayed-and hasted not to go down about a whole day!” ... (Jos. A miraculous victory for Israel. I have read similar debunkings in sources I trust. They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries and it came to a halt. Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! They called in the service department to check it out and they said “what’s wrong?” Well they found there is a day missing in space, in elapsed time.
“How does the devout Bible student explain the ‘long day’ that is related in the book of Joshua?” Joshua, chapter 10, contains the account of a great battle between the children of Israel and the pagan Amorites. Joshua 10:13.
And the sun stood still — God heard Joshua’s request, and gave him the thing he asked for, a prolongation of the day to near twice the length of any other day. Joshua 10:12–13, "Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “O sun, stand still at Gibeon, And O moon in the valley of Aijalon.” 13 So the sun stood still, and the moon … Even without scientific knowledge we can deduce this simply on the basis of logic: that day long ago was not “missing”—-it simply paused, and then resumed. In a discussion group one writer had this to say: “This story has been circulating in its NASA version at least since the 1960s, largely due to its promulgation by one Harold Hill, who says that he was present at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center when the above events allegedly took place. Special care has been given to rightly understand whether the sun and mon standing in the sky is to be understood as a miracle or not. Joshua ascended — Having no doubt asked advice of God first, which is implied by the answer God gives him, verse 8.. All the mighty men — That is, an army of the most valiant men picked out from the rest; for it is not probable, either that he would take so many hundred thousands with him, which would have hindered one another, or that he would leave the camp without an army to defend it. I simply entered “missing day” in my search engine, and under Yahoo came up with dozens of results. It was a miracle.Joshua prayed to God to help him win the war. Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in Second Kings make the missing day in the universe!