Joshua 10

Joshua 10:12

Jos. 10:12. Gibeon was the place that the sun appeared to stand over at that time in the place where Joshua then was; and the valley of Ajalon the place which the moon, which was also then visible, appeared standing over. Now was a remarkable fulfillment of those words of Job 9:7, “Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and sealeth up the stars;” which words are a confirmation that the sun, moon, and stars all stopped as to their diurnal motion by the staying the revolution of the earth about its axis. In the song of Deborah it is said the “stars in their courses fought against Sisera.” The angels are called stars. Christ is often compared to the sun. Here we have all the heavenly hosts - the sun, moon, and all the stars - standing still to fight against the enemies of God’s people, representing that Christ and all the heavenly host of saints (constituting the heavenly Church represented by the moon) and all the angels are fighting against the enemies of the Church. Hereby is typified that which is represented in prophecy (Rev. 19). The moon’s standing still. This proves the truth of the history, for a circumstance of the sun’s standing still being caused by staying the earth’s diurnal revolution is mentioned, though the occasion of such a circumstance must be wholly unknown in those days to the Jews, which argues the truth of the fact; for nothing but the real fact (the means of which was wholly unknown) could have put this into the head of the historian.Jos. 10:12-14

Joshua 10:13

Jos. 10:13. “And the sun stood still and the moon stayed.” God thereby showed that all things were for his church, all was theirs, the whole earth, and the sun, moon, and stars, were made for them. Jos. 10:13. “The sun stood still and the moon stayed.” The moon stayed; not that the moon’s staying helped them, but it was because the earth was stopped, and so all the heavenly bodies were stopped, that is, they kept their position with respect to the horizon.