9. So Joshua caught them by surprise, after marching all night from Gilgal.
10. The Lord threw them into confusion before Israel. He defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, chased them through the ascent of Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
11. As they fled before Israel, the Lord threw large hailstones on them from the sky along the descent of Beth-horon all the way to Azekah, and they died. More of them died from the hail than the Israelites killed with the sword.
12. On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the Lord in the presence of Israel:“Sun, stand still over Gibeon,and moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
13. And the sun stood stilland the moon stoppeduntil the nation took vengeance on its enemies.Isn’t this written in the Book of Jashar? So the sun stoppedin the middle of the skyand delayed its settingalmost a full day.
14. There has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord listened to the voice of a man, because the Lord fought for Israel.
15. Then Joshua and all Israel with him returned to the camp at Gilgal.
16. Now the five defeated kings had fled and hidden themselves in the cave at Makkedah.