 | 1845 - 824 oldal
...reasons, the gravest prose, the passage itself is poetry. It forms three perfect distiches : Thus— " Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, And thou Moon,...Ajalon. And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed her courae, Until the people were avenged of their enemies. And the Sun tarried in the midst of the... | |
 | 1883 - 798 oldal
...the Amoritcs before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of all Israel, Sun, stand them still upon Gibeon: and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon, until all the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is it not written in the Book of Jasher... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1845 - 830 oldal
...late as four o'clock PM when they reached the place. Let us now look at the order particularly : " Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon." But where is Gibeon from Makkedah > Nearly due east, at least eighteen, if not twenty miles.... | |
 | 1845 - 398 oldal
...Amorites were defeated, and Joshua, obeying the divine command, stretched forth his hand, and said, " Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon ! " Obedient to this injunction, the sun and the moon paused in their course; the day was... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 oldal
...shuttle, the baker at his oven, and to turn over with antiquarian coolness the pots and pans of Pompeii. " Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon." Who, in reading this magnificent Hebraism, in his conception, sees aught but the heroic... | |
 | George Herbert - 1991 - 500 oldal
...Consideration of Providence 1. soil manure. 2.. corn grain. 3. virtue power. up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of...Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed . . . .' and Exodus 3:2: 'And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the... | |
 | William Harrison Pipes - 1992 - 236 oldal
...a proem really should not be employed" (Aristotle, Rhetoric, op. cit., bk. 3, 13-14, pp. 221-23). 6 "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon" (Bible, op. cit., JOSHUA 10:12). 7 Cf. footnote d. 8 In the Epilogue " you must put the... | |
 | Jonathan Westphal, Carl Avren Levenson - 1993 - 264 oldal
...day it's farther away. There is no siesta, no rest, for time. Time marches on. Time waits for nobody. "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou moon, in the valley of Ajalon," was not spoken to Time. Time goes on, unwearied, what endurance! unwearying, without a... | |
 | David Hatcher Childress - 1992 - 596 oldal
...Children of Israel, saying: "In the sight of the Israelites, let the sun stand still in Gibeon and the Moon in the valley of Ajalon." And the Sun stood still, and Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves of the enemies. Indeed it is all written in the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1995 - 244 oldal
...poet Dante, whose Infetno is alluded to. 155 Mahtatta an Indian people. 180 Joshua see Joshua X.12 (' "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon,...Ajalon." And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed,'). 182 A celebrated error as well as an up-to-the-minute image: the metaphor is from the newly-introduced... | |
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Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou moon, in the valley of Ajalon. 
