Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption,

and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to

finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Hey everybody, welcome back to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. My name is Jenny,

and today we are looking at Joshua 10 through 12. Yesterday we witnessed the beginning of the

conquest of the rest of the Promised Land. We also saw that God is faithful even when His people

aren't. Today we will see how God continues to be faithful as He delivers other territories

of the Promised Land to the Israelites. Joshua 10 opens with an incredible, almost unbelievable

story where the sun stands still. But before we get to that, we need to set the stage for this

incredible event. The backdrop of this story is the battle at Gibbian. We see five of the Amorite

kings are attacking Gibbian because, as you may remember from yesterday, Gibbian made peace

with Israel. So the Gibbian Knights, in their distress, sends word to Joshua and pleads for the

Israelites to help them. In response, Joshua takes his best men to fight against the Amorites.

As he heads out to battle, the Lord tells Joshua, do not be afraid of them,

for I have handed them over to you. Not one of them will be able to stand against you.

God's promise to Joshua leads to the climax of this story, where Joshua prays for the

sun to stand still. And, as you already know, it does. In fact, God delivers more than an answer

to Joshua's prayer. He also throws the Amorites into a confusion and sends a hailstorm to

that kills more Amorites than the Israelites killed with their swords. Before we wrap up our

discussion on this section, let's revisit this whole thing about the sun standing still.

It is important to note that scholars disagree on what it means for the sun to stand still.

Some believe that the original Hebrew language denotes a solar eclipse,

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