Word: gibeon
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What Went On at Gibeon...
...stop at Gibeon...
...years the comet kept the solar system in an uproar, charging among the peaceful planets like *a bull at a Sunday-school picnic. It zoomed past the earth again when the Children of Israel, commanded by Joshua, were tangling with the Amorites. Said Joshua: "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies." (Joshua...
Toward the East. Some scientists have a sneaking suspicion that Velikovsky is pulling their legs. No object, however large, that barely grazed the earth could materially affect its period of revolution. And if the sun did literally "stand still upon Gibeon"-i.e., if the earth suddenly stopped turning-no human being would have lived to tell about it. Every loose object on earth, including Joshua, the oceans and the atmosphere, would have continued the normal rotating movement, and thus taken off toward the east faster than the speed of sound. Velikovsky seems to be aware of some of these difficulties...
...stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed...