Divine Intervention and Joshua's Victory
To God, so that He might not let the day pass by nature, having stopped the sun at Gibeon and the moon at the valley of Aijalon (Joshua 10:12-13). And God stopped the sun and the moon until he struck down the enemies in the midday.
But Jesus the son of Nun, finding the five kings of the nations hiding, fallen into a cave upon the earth, commanded that they be thrown, and having made them be trampled by the people upon the neck, he killed them (Joshua 10:25-27); and having hung their bodies on wood, he later shut them into the cave.
And having plundered all their cities, he subjected all the mountain and the plain. And Asor, King Jabin, having taken kings as allies around him, gathered much power, as the multitude of their army seemed to be like the innumerable...
Greek
τῷ Θεῷ, ὅπως τὴν ἡμέραν παρὰ φύσιν μηκύνῃ αὐτοῖς στήσας τὸν ἥλιον κατὰ Γαβαὼν, καὶ τὴν σελήνην κατὰ φάραγγα Ἀρνῶν. Καὶ ἔστησεν ὁ Θεὸς στάσει τὸν ἥλιον καὶ τὴν σελήνην, ἕως οὗ παηνμέριον τοὺς πολεμίους ἥλω. 793 Τοὺς δὲ πέντε βασιλεῖς τῶν ἐθνῶν Ἰησοῦς ὁ τοῦ Ναυῆ κρυπτομένους εὑρὼν, εἰς σπήλαιον ὑπτίους ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ῥιφῆναι αὐτοὺς προσέταξε, καὶ καταπατεῖσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ λαοῦ ἐπὶ τοῦ τραχήλου ποιήσας, ἀπέκτεινε· καὶ τὰ σώματα αὐτῶν ἐπὶ ξύλου ἀναρτήσας, ὕστερον εἰς τὸ σπήλαιον αὐτὰ κατώρυξε. Πάσας δὲ τὰς πόλεις ἐκπορθήσας αὐτῶν, πᾶσαν τὴν ὀρεινὴν καὶ τὴν πεδινὴν ὑπέταξε. Ἀσὼρ δὲ, ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἰαβὶν, συμμάχους τοὺς πέριξ λαβὼν βασιλεῖς, πολλὴν συνήγαγε δύναμιν, ὡς εἰκάσαι τὸ πλῆθος τῆς στρατείας αὐτῶν τῇ ἀναριθμήτῳ τῆς
About this text
Commentary on the six days of creation (PG marks Spurious) attributed to Eustathius of Antioch.
Original English Translation — new OET from PG 18 Greek.
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 18 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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