Joshua is given a new challenge as five kings and their armies come to attack Gibeon for making an alliance with Israel. Joshua comes to their aid, and the Lord is with him. He gives him victory, and even sends a hailstorm ahead of the Israelites, so that more men are killed by the hail than by the sword of Israel.

An amazing sign is given as Joshua asks that the sun stand still and that the moon stop. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down for a full day. Nothing like that had happened before or since--this was truly a sign that God was with his people!

We don't see a sign like this in our day, but God has given us his Son as a sacrifice for our sins, and he gives his Holy Spirit to live within us. How much better is this than the sun stopping for a time--we have the Son of God living in our hearts!