Discovery BoxJoshua 10:10-12 
Context10:10 The Lord routed 1 them before Israel. Israel 2 thoroughly defeated them 3 at Gibeon. They chased them up the road to the pass 4 of Beth Horon and struck them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah. 10:11 As they fled from Israel on the slope leading down from 5 Beth Horon, the Lord threw down on them large hailstones from the sky, 6 all the way to Azekah. They died – in fact, more died from the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.
10:12 The day the Lord delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the Lord before Israel: 7
“O sun, stand still over Gibeon!
O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!”
1 tn Or “caused to panic.”
2 tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Israel (mentioned at the end of the previous sentence in the verse; cf. NIV, NRSV), but it is also possible that the
3 tn Heb “struck them down with a great striking down.”
4 tn Or “ascent.”
5 tn Heb “on the descent of.”
6 tn Or “heaven” (also in v. 13). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
7 tn Heb “Then Joshua spoke to the
