Joshua's Long Day

Joshua 10

12 "Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, sun stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, moon upon Ajalon.
13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel."

NASA states on their web site: "According to the laws of physics, there are only two possible explanations for having the Sun stand still in the sky for a day: (1) the Earth would essentially have to stop spinning on its axis...for which there is no evidence. -or- (2) the Sun would have to start moving about in the solar system in a very specific way so that it appeared to us on our spinning Earth to be standing still. There is no evidence of this occurring either." I theorize the sun moved on Joshua's long day. - This did not begin as the missing day story. However, this page is now full proof of the missing day story - You will read here of plenty of evidence of this occurring. In the summer of 1999 it occurred to me if the sun moved halfway around the earth, earth would continue moving in orbit. While I was demonstrating this to my wife it occurred to me earth would continue moving but now in reverse and where did I read of that? From James Legge in the Chinese Classics: "But the vernal mansions go to the west and the autumnal ones to the east, reversing the previous directions of these two seasons, and in opposition to the prevailing notion of the Chinese that the spring belongs to the east." Where the sun appears to move through the year like it does through the day from east to west - only in a reverse orbit and exactly like this reverse orbit. Where the sun moved from Aquarius to Virgo just before the vernal equinox, thus the vernal and autumnal mansions were reversed. The reverse orbit for Joseph/Yao in 2357 BC was like the reverse orbit of Joshua in 1238 BC.

These calculations had nothing to do with the Missing Day Story. However, had Harold Hill heard the correct calculations given here he may have thought they were the same as Totten's which they are not. That is, he may have heard the correct calculations by NASA and used Totten's story instead thinking they were the same. The space program began in earnest in 1958 so by 1969 when Harold Hill heard of the Missing Day NASA was capable of discovering it. According to Harold Hill NASA discovered it in the 1960's space mission to the moon. My cousin's wife's father who worked for NASA had to take regular lie detection tests and he and all his buddies from NASA died shortly after they retired. So the fact no one at NASA admitted to the story is not surprising. Michael Griffin said that during the space program to the moon NASA attracted many talented people, moreso than today. Some of these talented people may have been the ones to discover the missing day. View the Power Point Presentation here or Power Point Show (slide advances, press escape to exit) here. Get the free Power Point Viewer here. To print this page in PDF click here. To print this page in legal page format PDF click here November 28 2008. To get Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader click here. That is, when the sun moved 180° east to stand still in the sky for Joshua there was 12 hours of elapsed time unaccounted for. Probably the sun moved 180 degrees east again half an orbit later and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit. There are 186.6 days from the Spring equinox to the Fall equinox, and there was 12 more hours of elapsed time unaccounted for. 24 hours of elapsed time unaccounted for. That is, when the sun stood still in the sky it traveled east 180° for 12 hours of elapsed time. Then if the sun did that again that is 24 hours of elapsed time. Then earth must speed up in its reverse orbit of the sun 48 hours a year or there would be 367 days a reverse year because rotation is against orbit in a reverse orbit following the same distance from the sun. Half an orbit is 24 hours, half of 48 hours. Earth must speed up 186.6 days of 365 days, 186.6/365 X 48, correlating to 24 hours and 31 minutes, 40 minutes rounding up from 24 hours and 31 minutes, because the half orbit beginning February 26 1238 BC covered the longest period of earth's elliptical orbit. In 1238 BC earth was nearest the sun November 25 and the second quarter 92 days later began with Joshua's long day February 25/26. Or more exactly 186 days and 14 hours. This is 186.58333 days and 31 missing minutes which could have been rounded up to 40 minutes for simplicity in the missing day story. Moreover, the sun must return at 2AM September 1 1238 BC 186 days and 14 hours from noon February 26 1238 BC. Napoleon wrote that no one is brave at 3 AM! Gideon attacked at the beginning of the second watch. This is missing time as opposed to elapsed time. 24 hours of elapsed time countered by 24 hours and 40 minutes of missing time leaves 40 minutes of missing time for 1238 BC. In the Missing Day Story there was 23 hours and 20 minutes of elapsed time they were missing. The sun must have moved 180° east for Joshua for 12 hours of elapsed time and the spacemen may expect the sun to move 180° east again 186.6 days later for 12 more hours of elapsed time and earth flow out of the reverse orbit. In 186.6 days they would be missing 40 minutes more than the elapsed time of 24 hours. So you could say the elapsed time was 23 hours and 20 minutes when you count the missing 40 minutes. In the Missing Day Story the spacemen were still missing 40 minutes till they went to the Bible again for a second sun miracle. In Judges 8:13 Gideon returned before the sun ascended. This could be the second sun miracle beginning the second correcting reverse orbit right after the first. The sun ascended could be the sun traveling 180° west to rise up suddenly in the east to begin this second reverse orbit. You can read here of the parallel to the Missing Day Story. Coincidence? Perhaps. Also, likewise there may be no net missing time from all these sun miracles because the reverse orbits look to be half years like Joshua's long day. Thus there must be lots of +24 hour -24 hour half orbits most of them two half orbits of +48 hour and -48 hour years. Even the -40 minutes of 1238 BC must have been countered by a sun miracle in autumn for a half reverse orbit of 23:20 hours missing time because there are 178.6 days from September 1 to February 27. 178.6/365.24 X 48 = 23:29 hours rounded to 23:20 hours. 48 missing hours countered by + 12 hours February 26 1238 BC +36 hours the night of August 31 1238 BC and -12 hours September 1 1238 BC and + 12 hours February 27 1237 BC. Thus the missing 40 minutes may have been countered by only 23:20 hours of missing time +24 hours elapsed time leaving no net missing time. Then when earth flowed out of the second reverse orbit eclipse paths on earth's surface would be exactly where we would predict them to be backwards in time. Exact to the foot and to the second. Perhaps why the spacemen had to find the counter to the remaining 40 minutes. The only way to avoid a second correcting reverse orbit is for the sun to move on the perihelion or aphelion of the sun the day it is closest or furthest from earth or for the sun to move back on the anniversary of the first sun miracle. Thus there is no way around these calculations and it would be no surprise if the spacemen from NASA actually discovered these simple basic mechanics. They would be on serious business and they were looking for anything unusual and may have found it. Earth's orbit is so important it would be no surprise if these spacemen thought it was important too. They would realize there must be no net missing time or else solar eclipse paths on the face of the earth would be in error. This because earth must continue to rotate as normal. Thus there must be no missing time to put everything back to normal. And unless earth's orbit goes back to normal nothing is sure. Thus there may be no missing time going back several thousand years at all. The elapsed time of the sun miracles must match the 48 hours of missing time that year. Thus + 12 hours February 25, + 36 hours August 31, - 12 hours September 1 and + 12 hours February 27 = 48 hours. Joshua's long day could have been 36 hours. However, the Bible is clear the sun stood still for about a whole day not three days of 12 hours.

The "Missing Day" Story

Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been called myth in the Bible is true? Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore Maryland and a consultant in the space program, relates the following development:

I think one of the most amazing things that God has for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland. They were checking the position of the sun, moon, and planets out in space where they would be 100 years and 1000 years from now.. We have to know this so we won't send a satellite, up and have it bump into something later on during its orbits. We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite, and where the planets will be so the whole thing will not bog down..

They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries and it came to a halt. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong either with the information fed into it or with the results as compared to the standards. They called in the service department to check it out and they said what's wrong?

Well they found there is a day missing in space in elapsed time. They scratched their heads and tore their hair. There was no answer. Finally, a Christian man on the team said, You know, one time I was in Sunday school and they talked about the sun standing still. While they didn't believe him,they didn't have an answer either, so they said, Show us. He got a Bible and went back to the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for any one with common sense.

There they found the Lord saying to Joshua, Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee. Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy and if darkness fell they would overpower them. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! That's right---The sun stood still and the moon stayed---and hasted not to go down about a whole day!

The astronauts and scientists said, There is the missing day! They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it was close but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes---not a whole day. They read the Bible and there it was about (approximately) a day.

These little words in the Bible are important, but they were still in trouble because if you cannot account for 40 minutes you'll still be in trouble 1000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits..

As the Christian employee thought about it, remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said the sun went backwards. The scientists told him he was out of his mind, but they got out the Book and read these words in 2 Kings: Hezekiah, on his death-bed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said Do you want the sun to go ahead 10 degrees? Hezekiah said, It is nothing for the sun to go ahead 10 degrees, but let the shadow return backward 10 degrees. Isaiah spoke to the Lord and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees backward! Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! Twenty three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in Second Kings make the missing day in the universe!

Isn't it amazing? Our God is rubbing their noses in His Truth! References:
Joshua 10:8 and 12,13
2 Kings 20:9-11

The reference to the sun's shadow decending backwards in 2 Kings 20:9-11 was the Hebrew word for Mahaleh for ascending as well. Then the second reference should be Judges 8:13 instead when Gideon returned before the sun was up, before the sun ascended, to correct for this 40 minutes. Also, of note is the reference to the sun going backwards. The sun must have gone backwards to rise in the west at 2AM September 1 as well as suddenly ascending 5AM September 1 in the east more than 42 hours later.

Joshua's long day Blog

If the earth stopped or reversed its rotation, the problems are immense. If the earth stopped rotating for 24 hours there would be 24 hours of missing time. If the sun revolved around the earth 360° there would again be 24 hours of missing time. If the sun moved halfway around the earth in a series of 4 sun miracles there would be no net missing time. No evidence left.
If the sun moved not 360° but 180° the seasons would change. Earth would flow into a reverse orbit of the sun and must shift on its axis to keep in the same season, unless on the vernal or autumn equinox. If the sun moved 180° east February 25 1238 BC to stand still at noon in the sky for Joshua for 12 hours earth would flow into a reverse orbit and need to shift, turn 70° clockwise on the vertical not the pole, to keep in the same season. This shift would be less than stopping the earth's rotation and starting it again. Orbital Variations and Insolation Database (search and read up on it under "orbital variations" or "insolation database") show the seasons and the sun's intensity did not change. This model leaves no evidence. Earth must orbit the same distance from the sun in the same elliptical orbit it would have. Earth must rotate exacly as it would have. The sun's gravity makes earth rotate. Thus earth must have been carefully managed to leave no biological trace. Each day must be 8 minutes shorter than it would have in a reverse orbit because earth must be sped up 2 days, 48 hours, a year to keep 365.24 days a year because rotation is against orbit. The daily amount of heat radiation from the sun must have been adjusted to leave no biological trace in this 8 minutes less a day, 4 minutes less daylight a day. If NASA is saying there is no trace, no physical evidence the sun moved, they are probably right. However, NASA may be saying there is no evidence whatsoever of the sun being moved around the earth. Then the abundance of evidence documented on this web page directly contradicts that statement. If the sun moved to the other side of the earth, earth's forward momentum would carry earth into a reverse orbit of the sun. Earth must match its elliptical orbit in reverse perfectly. Earth almost certainly could not be left to itself. The reverse orbit must have been very skillfully managed to keep the sun's same seasonal intensity, as it would have had, throughout the year at the same time speeding up the yearly orbit 48 hours to keep the 365 days in a year because rotations are against orbit. The "severed leg of the bull" in ancient Egyptian and Sumerian history confirms this axis shift. If the sun moved earth must flow into a reverse orbit. This answers both concerns: Earth is rotating at 1,000 mph at the equator and rushing at 70,000 mph around the sun. You will read here of many reverse zodiacs/orbits. The evidence on this page is reliable. This is not speculation. There is no other way. If God went to the effort to move the sun around the earth he must know he cannot make the sun stand still in the sky by stopping earth's rotation. If God knows there is no other way, there is no other way.

Genesis 8:22 "While earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
We can see God kept all these promises at the same time moving the sun around the earth and shifting the earth to keep it in the same season. Moving the sun around the earth at the same distance means there would be no change to earth. Day and night depended on where the sun was and seeing earth continued to rotate day and night continued. Day was when the sun appeared. Thus if the sun moved 180° east generally day/night was 12 hours longer or if the sun moved 180° west day/night was 12 hours shorter. Earth continued to rotate exactly as it would have.
Matthew 13:18 "Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side."
You have to understand the basics of this model or someone will persuade you to disbelieve it. You have to be honest or you won't recognize the truth when you see it.

Earth probably exited the reverse orbit of Joshua's long day half an orbit later

Earth appears to have gone into a reverse orbit on Joshua's long day. The Hebrew states the sun stood still from the half of heaven for Joshua. Perhaps Israel saw stars from the other half of heaven that night. The Chinese from the time of Joshua state there was a long sunset: "King Wan was like the sun or the moon. He lightened with his shining the four quarters, -- the western regions." - that is, there was a sun miracle when the sun was setting. "King Wan dreamt that he was clothed with the sun and the moon. A phoenix duck sang on mount K'e. In the first month of spring, on the 6th day, the five planets had a conjunction in Fang. Afterwards a male and female phoenix went about Wan's capital with a writing in their beaks, which said: 'The emperor of Yin has no principle, but oppresses and disorders the empire. The great decree is removed: Yin cannot enjoy it no longer. The powerful spirits of earth have left it; all the spirits are whistled away. The conjunction of the five planets in Fang brightens all within the four seas.'" The Annals of the Bamboo Books, Part V the Dynasty of Chow p.143, The Chinese Classics Chinese new year feast was from the first day to the tenth day. Thus, this was during the feast of new year. This Chinese record was of the sixth day moon and the sun. Logically the sun should be setting and the moon brightening in the evening sky above. And that the five planets had a conjunction in Libra/Scorpius in February when the sun would be in Aquarius/Pisces - Scorpius would only appear in the east just before daybreak! Scorpius must appear in the west at sunset to fit the picture. If this was a sun miracle the Chinese were describing they were not describing particularly a conjunction but a long sunset. That all the planets appeared in the western quadrant at sunset stood still in the western sky, while they moved 180° with earth's rotation and with the sun, and 12 hours later they appeared about Fang/Libra when the stars finally came out. The center of the 70° conjunction was Fang or Libra. "King Wan dreamt he was clothed in the sun and moon..on the sixth day of the first month" - A long sunset and the moon stayed directly overhead. Spring began on the new moon. The sixth day of spring the moon is 90° east of the sun. Thus the moon on the eastern horizon above Ajalon when the sun was in the noon position. The only way that all this is possible is if the sun moved 180° from Pisces to Virgo and the planets and moon moved 180° from Taurus to Scorpius and earth's forward momentum carried it into a reverse orbit. Then the moon and planets would appear in Scorpius at the end of this long sunset. (Then the sun would be in Virgo moving into Leo next on the vernal equinox.)
A form letter from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771:
We know nothing of Mr. Harold Hill and in no way can corroborate the "lost day" reference in the article.
The effects of epoch events such as leap year, Babylonian calendar sequential perturbations, etc., are considered in the development of long-term-running computer programs. We are limited somewhat in that many of our calculations terminate with Babylonian calendar events (4,000 years ago), but this has never given programmers any unexpected difficulties.
Although we make use of planetary positions as necessary in the determination of spacecraft orbits on our computers, I have not found that any "astronauts and space scientists at Greenbelt" were involved in the "lost day" story attributed to Mr. Hill.
Thank you for your interest.
Sincerely,

Edward Mason, Chief
Office of Public Affairs

Yes, NASA made use of planetary positions. Yes, they were going back 4,000 years. All they would have to do was open the Chinese Classics and come to this record of king Wan's dream. Right away the computer would put up a red light that this planetary conjunction in Fang at sunrise would not be visible. Also, the six day moon would not be visible at sunrise either. A computer service technician from NASA who started work just after the Missing Day Story came out emailed me from a newsgroup in about 2000 that these computers often put up a red light and had to be seen to. Yigael Yadin estimated Hazor was burned 1266 - 1233 BC while doing excavations there in 1958 and 1968. All the spacemen would have to do is look for a five planet conjunction at sunset for this period. Then the computer would tell them this conjunction in the first month of the Chinese spring and on the 6th day of the moon could only be February 25/26 1238 BC when there was a five planet conjuction in Taurus. Next they would see the conjuntion was in Fang/Scorpius 180° away and right away realize the five planets moved 180° with the sun to Fang/Scorpius. While they were looking at Assyrian Omens they would find the omen: When the sun stands still at noon time in Adar there will be seige and misery. Adar is February. February 26 1238 BC is when the sun stood still at noon time for Joshua and there was seige and misery. February 27 1237 BC the sun must return at noon when Joshua attacked at Merom and chased the Amorites into Assyria. Thus the double emphasis on this omen. Thus it became an Assyrian omen. And thus NASA had all the records it needed to find the missing day and the remaining missing 40 minutes. If they were counting leap years they would be interested in the Chinese 60 day cycle. They may have found the 60 day cycle was out not one day but two! Moreover, for the planets to appear in their seasons as they would have all the planets would be 180° away from where they normally would be half an orbit later and again a year later. So, when the sun moved 180° half an orbit later the planets would simply move 180° also. So staying in their nighttime positions on that day, during the sun miracle and after it. Thus, far from planets being a problem to God, they would all make one easy movement. Except for a few instances given here, like the movement of Mars and Jupiter, ancient people thought this was normal.

After Joshua's long day Joshua conquered Jabin and Hazor in Joshua 11. Jabin appears to be still at Hazor in Judges 4 & 5. Probably the sun in Judges 5:31 marked the sun miracle to begin the second reverse orbit. That is, Joshua's long day must have been February 25/26 1238 BC. The sun must have moved back half an orbit or 186.6 days later 2AM September 1 1238 BC. Then the net missing time is 40 minutes. Then the sun must have moved again to start a second reverse orbit that year the day God gave Israel the victory in Judges 4,5,6,7,8. The sun may have returned 2AM September 1 when it rose in the west to give light to fight the battle. Then the sun may have suddenly rose in the east the day following, technically that same September 1 5AM, to begin the second reverse orbit. Then this may have been September 1 and 178.6 days later the sun returned February 27 1237 BC. And perhaps the sun stood still again in the month of Adar, Sunday February 27 1237 BC. Thus also Joshua would view the camp of Midianites on Saturday the Sabbath and attack them on Sunday. Joshua 11 could have occurred on this February 27 1237 BC. If the sun rose in the west to the noon position for Gideon to be dimmed to not leave a daily coral line then the first reverse orbit may end about midnight. Here is an example of how a dimmed sun may look:

The sudden sunrise 5 AM September 1 would put the sun 12 hours west. 178.65 days later is 15 hours later. That is, the second sun miracle September 1 must start 17 hours after the first sun miracle ended September 1. Also it would take about 4 hours for the sun to travel 180° west. 5AM plus 12 hours, plus 17 hours plus 6 hours equal 31 hours later. That is, plus 12 hours for the sun to move 180° west, 17 hours from when the sun stopped in the first sun miracle September 1. That is, if the sun finished moving east from 2AM September 1 to stop at 12PM, at 540°. and continue to be dim and set in the west. Then when the sun suddenly rose in the east at 5AM September 1 this would be 17 hours later. Then if it took the sun 6 hours to travel 180° west. Then the second reverse orbit must begin 31 hours after the first reverse orbit ended. Thus 31 hours plus 5AM Saturday February 26 1237 BC, 178.65 days later, is 12PM the next day, February 27 1237 BC. That is, the sun must return half an orbit later, 178.65 days later. Plus the 31 hours to noon February 27 1237 BC. Thus the sun should return about 12PM Sunday February 27. Then the sun must stand still at noon February 27 1237 BC again in the month of Adar. In the month of Adar because February 25/26 1238 BC was the 6th day moon and February 27 1237 BC was the 17th day moon of the lunar month of Adar. Joshua's long day was 92 days after earth's nearest approach to the sun. Then about 90 days before earth's nearest approach to the sun is September 1. The sun must return 35 days before the autumn equinox just as the sun first moved 35 days before the vernal equinox. That is half an orbit later which September 1 is. Moreover, if the sun returns 365 days later there does not need to be a second correcting reverse orbit because all 365 days of sped up orbit near the sun and slowed down orbit furthest from the sun cancel out. Then a second half reverse orbit begining right after a half reverse orbit will do the same and the 40 (31) missing minutes from the first reverse orbit will be cancelled out by the 40 (31) more minutes of elapsed time in the second reverse orbit. Now we are getting no net missing time to the exact second! 178/365.25 is about 23:20 hours of missing time countered by +36 hours of a long day perhaps the night of August 31 and -12 hours of a short day perhaps September 1 and +12 hours of a long day February 25 1237 BC. This leaves 40 minutes of elapsed time countering the 40 minutes of missing time from the reverse orbit of Joshua's long day. There is no way the Midianites could have been prepared on the day of the second reverse orbit. Then earth must shift 70° counterclockwise when the sun completed the 540° orbit of earth at the noon position rising in the west. Thus earth flowing out of the first reverse orbit and reorienting. Then about sunrise the sun must have moved 180° west for a sudden sunrise and perhaps a 4 hour day with the sun seven times brighter to leave the same daily coral line. If the sun traveled 180° west in 6 hours that would leave the sun in the Israel sky 4 hours because the sun would still be moving 2 hours after it set. Then earth must shift 70° clockwise as it flowed into the second reverse orbit of the sun. Or the sun moved 540° east on the anniversary of Joshua's long day at 6 PM February 25 1237 BC plus the 180° east of Joshua's long day countering a year of 48 hours missing time. However, most likely there were two reverse orbits necessitating these 4 sun miracles. The exact time of battle must have meant the sun was returning at these exact times, 2 AM September 1 1238 BC and 12 PM February 27 1237 BC:
Judges 4:14 "And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: Is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him."
Judges 7:9 "And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it unto thine hand." 19 "So Gideon and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets and brake the pitchers that were in their hands."
Joshua 11:6 "And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid of them because tomorrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire."

Joshua 11:4 "And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many."
Judges 7:12 "And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude."
The battle of Gideon and Barak and Deborah must have been the same day September 1 1238 BC. Thus Judges 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 describe the same day. The sun must move back and earth flow out of the reverse orbit. Then probably the sun moved back at the first opportunity 2AM September 1 1238 BC and moved again to start a second reverse orbit in Judges 4,5,6,7,8 and moved back for Joshua again in the final conquest of Palestine at Merom:
Judges 7:19 "So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch: and they had newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands."
The second watch would begin at midnight. The sun would suddenly rise in the east or west, probably in the west, about 2 AM. It is very unusual to fight a battle at night. There must have been more than moonlight. Thus the sun must have risen in the west shortly after the beginning of the second watch. Thus Gideon could chase the Midianites in the daylight. The sun could suddenly reach the noon position, 180° from 2AM is 2PM if the sun only moved 180°. This would make about 7 hours of daylight that day on Israel. However earth must shift back immediately. Thus the stars would shift west 70° very fast if this was as earth shifted 70° east, the sun then rise in the west to appear for about 3 hours. If this shift was after the sun set, when earth flowed out of the reverse orbit 2AM September 1, the Israelites would see the stars suddenly set in the west. The shift is on the zenith which would be just above China at midnight Israel time at the beginning of the second watch. So China would rather see the stars pivot above them. But Israel would see the stars suddenly disappear 70° in the west as much as anywhere else on the earth. Thus, factoring our elliptical orbit into the equation this second reverse orbit must have begun September 1. Then again that night at midnight the stars would shift 70° west as earth shifted 70° east. Thus the stars would suddenly disappear in the west 2AM September 1.
Judges 8:13 "And Gideon the son of Joash, returned from battle before the sun."
After the sun rose in the west for a long day of 36 hours for Gideon to chase the Midianites and capture Zebah and Zalmunna, there should be a sudden sunrise in the east. The sun rising in the east suddenly must be brightened several times to leave the same daily coral line. This because the missing time of a year of two reverse orbits must be countered by 48 hours of long days. Then +12 hours for Joshua's long day, + 36 hours for Gideon, -12 hours for the sudden sunrise and +12 hours for the sun to stand still February 27 again. There should be a second reverse orbit immediately after from September 1 to January 27 to counter the remaining missing 40 minutes. Thus, Gideon's chase may have begun at the beginning of the second reverse orbit. The sun could move 540° east 2AM September 1 and produce a long enough day, plus 36 more hours, Gideon could chase the Midianites 60 miles plus and return before the sun. The second reverse orbit was needed to give Gideon 36 hours to get complete victory over the Midianites. That is, the sun may have been dimmed for the 36 hours as it traveled east to rise in the west or Israel was kept in twilight, then the sun would rise in full strength the following sunrise. The sun rising in the west must be dimmed to not leave a daily coral line. This sun miracle on September 1 1238 BC then was to counter the 40 minutes of missing time from the reverse orbit of Joshua's long day. Then the sun must move back half an orbit later, February 27 1237 BC. Then if the sun traveled 180° west 5AM September 1, half a year after Joshua's long day, this would counter the missing 40 minutes. If on 2AM September 1 before the autumn equinox 6AM October 5 the stars would stand still above Israel during the shift. "The stars in their courses fought against Sisera". There should be meteor showers visible that night before the sun rose in the east as Israel would catch meteorites as earth and Israel moved into astroids. The word for before as in before the sun, Mahaleh - same as the feminine for steps on a sundial as in Hezekiah's Sign when the sun retreated 10 steps in 2 Kings 20:9, means ascending an elevation. Thus the sun rising from the west may not count as a day. Nevertheless they were made aware of the sun for some reason to even mention it, probably by the sun miracle in Judges 5:31. 36 hours later the sun would stop. At what O'clock point in the sky the sun stopped I do not know. God could set the O'clock position of the sun stopping at the end of the 540° east that it moved to set the 12PM time the sun must return and stand still in the sky February 27. The only thing I really don't know is how long it took the sun to travel 180° west 5AM September 1 1238 BC. If we knew that we would know at what O'clock position the dim sun stopped moving east. Then the sun must start moving at 5AM to suddenly ascend in the east again. This day would count as a day because the sun normally ascends in the east. Joshua could not move his army through enemy territory to help Gideon unnoticed. Probably, Joshua attacked one year after Joshua's long day at the battle of Merom February 27 1237 BC. Then that day would be 12 hours longer just as on Joshua's long day. Then the Assyrian omen: If the sun stands still at noontime in the month of Adar the land will experience siege and misery. - may refer to the second time the sun stood still in Adar, February. Then Habakkuk 3:11 may refer to the sun standing still this second time also. However, at the second time February 27 1238 BC was a 16 day moon and the moon was not visible at noon. Nevetheless in the battle of Merom probably February 27 1238 BC Joshua chased the Midianites north into Syria. Thus, this omen of the second time the sun stood still at noon time in Adar, February, would be an Assyrian omen.
Joshua 11:5 "And when all these kings were met together, they come and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
6 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid of them because tomorrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon (or Zidon-rabbah), and unto Mizrephothmaim (or salt pits), and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining."
This route is 30 miles long north to Zidon and Mizpeh. Joshua needed 12 more hours of daylight to chase them 30 miles and slay them all before dark when they could get away. Joshua could not have slain this many people in one day except it was a long day just like Joshua 10:12. Joshua and Israel now knew how to fight in a long day. Thus Joshua needed a long day February 27 1237 BC just as he needed a long day on February 26 1238 BC. This fourth sun miracle ended the reverse orbit begun when the sun ascended after Gideon returned. This fourth sun miracle also ended the series of four sun miracles in order for earth to leave the same eclipse paths on the face of the earth as it would have done. And everyone of them was used by God to help Israel get the victory. That Joshua was told "tomorrow at this time" meant he had to wait till the sun could move back at noon February 27 1237 BC. Just as Gideon had to wait till the sun moved back the night of August 31 1238 BC:
Judges 7:24 "And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan, Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.
25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan."
This is the same route depicted in all three battles.
Judges 8:12 "And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host."
Judges 8:4 "And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?
7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
8 And he went up thence, to Penuel, and spoke unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him.
9 And he spoke also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
11 And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east, of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.
12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.
13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up,
14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.
15 And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?
16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
17 And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
Thus Gideon took the two kings of the Amorites. Thus Gideon returned before the sun ascended in the east. He could not have gone 60 miles and back in 6 hours from the beginning of the second watch to sunrise. Also, Gideon slew 120,000 men - hardly possible in just a few hours. When Gideon taught the elders with thorns this was a type of Christ. Because when the soldiers crucified Jesus they put a crown of thorns on his head. Just like when Joshua hung the five kings of the Amorites on trees toward the setting of the sun on Joshua's long day this was a type of Jesus' crucifixion with the two thieves.
Joshua 24:11 "And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before, you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow."
The two kings of the Amorites must have been this Zeba and Zalmunna. They were kings of Midian. However, it appears Joshua was talking about Zeba and Zalmunna on the other side of Jordan. Thus Gideon and 300 men slew 120,000 Midianites. Thus the battle of Gideon must have been September 1 1238 BC.
The account of Gideon is in Psalm 83.
Psalm 83:1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

God promised the children of Israel that he would deliver the kings into their hand:
Deuteronomy 7:24 "And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until I have destroyed them."
Possibly Gideon chased the Midianites from a sudden sunrise in the west at the beginning of the middle watch and through that long day. This must be the same time as Sisera began his attack on Deborah and Barak. Thus the Amorites were poised to attack both at once. However, God directed Gideon and Deborah to attack first.
Judges 4:1 "And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.
2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.
9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

5:1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years."

Timing was everything because the sun must move at an exact moment to begin the second reverse orbit inorder to correct the first reverse orbit. A sudden sunrise when the sun moved back the night of August 31 would only be a few short hours of daylight to fight because the sun must travel 180° east at 11PM less 4.6 hours of earth shift, then a full moon to complete the chase. Hardly enough light or time. Probably what was needed was a sudden sunrise in the west September 1 that "day" lasting 36 hours. 36 hours would be enough time and a dimmed sun would be much better than moon light. Also Sisera was weary when he fled. Perhaps weary fighting for almost 36 hours.
Judges 4:21 "Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died."
Also, Sisera's mother wondered why his chariot was so long in coming. Perhaps also because the battle had lasted for almost 36 hours.
Judges 5:28 "The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? "
Possibly Gideon fought from the night before Joshua's long day. Then the sun may have rose like normal February 25 and stood still at noon for 12 hours giving Gideon time to complete the chase of some 60 miles and return before the sun rose the next day. However, 16.6 more hours of daylight, 12 + 4.6 hours as earth shifted west to keep in the same season. probably would not be enough time to go more than 60 miles and return before dawn. Also, the text implies the sun had not risen in the east the whole time of Gideon's chase. Then probably Gideon's surprise attack was at the beginning of the second reverse orbit that year, September 1. Possibly all three battles were on the same day on the sun miracle marking the beginning of the second reverse orbit the night after the first reverse orbit of Joshua's long day ended. Thus the Midianites would not be expecting another sun miracle. Judges 4,5 must be at the same time as Joshua 11 because Sisera was king Jabin's general.
Judges 4:2 "And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles."
Joshua 11:1 "And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,"
Joshua 10:42 "And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel."
Joshua 11:17 "Joshua made war a long time with all those kings."
Thus there was time between Joshua's long day in Joshua 10 and Joshua's conquest of Hazor in Joshua 11. Thus the sun moving back 180° and earth flowing out of the reverse orbit half a year after Joshua's long day may not be the sun miracle of these battles. And the sun miracle marking the sun moving back 180° east and flowing out of the reverse orbit one full year after Joshua's long day may be the one. The sun must move back half a year or a year or years after Joshua's long day. The soonest is 187 days later August 31 1238 BC on a full moon. That Tuesday night was a Chinese day 56/57 and a lunar eclipse was recorded in China on a day 56/57 full moon. However, the day 56/57 (the night) recorded by the Chinese as a lunar eclipse must be August 12 1269 BC or November 24 1311 BC because this King Wuding of the oracle bone eclipse record reigned from 1324 BC to 1269 BC. NASA shows the moon just about to rise on China at the last of the lunar eclipse August 12 1269 BC. A lunar eclipse lasts three and a half hours, so possibly the Chinese saw the last of the eclipse. The moon would rise at 8 PM possibly with the last of the eclipse. There is only one other lunar eclipse on day 57 November 4 1311 BC during King Wuding's reign that could be month 12. However, month 12 was about August in the Yin calendar. Moreover, this lunar eclipse happened just after sunset. The only date that fits both criteria is August 12 1269 BC. This lunar eclipse August 12 1269 BC could be during earth's reverse orbit. The moon must slow in its orbit of the earth to keep in its lunar phases each night. Nevertheless China should have been able to get a glimpse of a naturally occuring lunar eclipse 8 PM August 12 1269 BC. The last bit of shadow would leave the full moon that night as the moon rose at 8 PM. The incoming trouble on day 23 was the day of Atonement, perhaps a sun miracle taken as a bad omen by the Chinese. If so, there would have been a sun miracle on the first day of the Hebrew new year in March on the first day of the month of Nissan in the 10th year the children of Israel were in the wilderness. Eclipse records for the day of 60 are often one day out. Most likely they did not count short days as a day. Also, a sun miracle in Palestine would not be counted as the same day in other parts of the earth. Thus there is no way for God to tell the Chinese they made a miscount. No counter sun miracle would produce less days. There is only one other lunar eclipse given with the month:
Crack-making on guiwei (day 20), Zeng divined: "[In the next] 10-day week, there will be no disasters," On the night of the third day yiyou (day 22), the moon was eclipsed and it became dark. [Day yiyou was in] the eighth month.
February 26 1278 BC was day 22 if August 12 1269 BC was day 56. Likewise December 15 1275 BC may be the lunar eclipse for day 31. "On the night of the sixth day jiawu (day 31), the moon was eclipsed." Likewise February 3 1276 may be the lunar eclipse for day 10. "On the night of the tenth day renshen (day 9), the moon was eclipsed." Likewise May 29 1272 BC may be the lunar eclipse for day 20. "Crack-making on guiwei (day 20), Zheng divined: "On the next day jiashen (day 21), it will become sunny." On that night [of the divination day guiwei], the moon was eclipsed." All these lunar eclipses were visible from China. In counting back without any missing days February 26 1278 BC should be day 20 and August 12 1269 BC should be day 55. Like the Hebrews day began with the evening. Thus, day 56 would begin the evening of August 12 when it was recorded day 57. Thus the days of 60 are out at least one day going backwards from what cycles we know when eclipses were first accurately recorded such as September 6, day 28, 776 BC. However, the evidence is strong. See the lunar eclipse records yourself here. These records cover a ten year period from 1279 BC to 1269 BC when likely divination was recorded. The lunar eclipse on February 26 1278 BC was total, thus it would become dark. Also, this eclipse occurred about 2:30 AM China time when the moon would still be overhead. The eighth month is normally April/May. However February 26 is almost March and if an intercalenary month had not been put in place in a month 13 the months would have backed up to the eighth month in February 26. Also, earth was in a reverse orbit from October 1 1280 BC to October 2 1279 BC. Thus September would be month 1 and not month 13. The Chinese may not have made September month 13 because earth was still in a reverse orbit and they could not tell the seasons by the stars. They could guess they should add a month 13 but they would have no way of determining it during the reverse orbit. Sun miracles that year would be confusing enough. "In his 29th year, at the supplementary sacrifice at the grand ancestral temple, a pheasant made its appearance." A pheasant may be the phoenix which was depicted as a pheasant. Wuding reigned 59 years perhaps to 1269 BC or 1264 BC. Thus from 1327 BC or 1323 BC. Thus his 29th year must be 1299 BC or 1295 BC while Ramses II was pharaoh over Egypt and the Hebrews there. This would be in Ramses II 56th year. In a recently discovered stele found in Damascus, "The pharaoh is depicted honouring the local manifestations of Re, the sun God, and his offspring, Seth, assimilated to the local God of storms" Damascus A History by Ross Burns, p.6 This may be honouring the manifestation of a sun miracle then. Also storms often accompanied sun miracles. Also this is 20 years after Moses fled pharaoh when he thought he could deliver the Hebrews. And 20 years before the Exodus. Also, only those who were 20 and under at the time of the Exodus were allowed to enter the promised land. Thus only those born before this possible sun miracle in 1299 BC were allowed to enter the promised land. There is plenty of reason to expect the sun moved back half an orbit after Joshua's long day even though we do not have a Chinese record of it. However, these Chinese records prove Joshua's long day was king Wan's dream of the sun miracle at his birth in 1238 BC because they prove the common chronology to be true. Thus king Wan dreamt about the record of the sun miracle at his birth and thus his right to be king of China. The night of August 31 1238 BC, half an orbit after Joshua's long day, is the soonest the sun and moon could have moved back. 11 PM Israel time at the beginning of the second watch is 5 AM China time. Thus the Chinese would not see the sun, or see it move and may not have recorded it. Nevertheless, the Midianites would see the stars suddenly disappear in the west and then rise in the west. Thus though Gideon may have surprised them, that sight would surprise them even more. Next they would see the sun rise in the west and their flight from Gideon would be without hope of darkness. For the sun to suddenly rise in the west to the noon position in Israel the sun must travel about 200 million miles per hour, one third the speed of light. The battle of Barak and Deborah probably was at the same time. Perhaps the writer of Judges perceived the terrific speed the sun must have travelled that day:
Judges 5:20 "They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera."
5:31 "So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might."
The sun probably rose suddenly and shined several times brighter the morning of September 1. That is, the sun must travel 180° west at 5 AM the morning of September 1 if the sun travelled 540° east 2 AM September 1 in order for there to be no net missing time when the sun returned February 27 1237 BC. There could be 51 hours from 2 AM September 1 to 5 AM September 1 because September 1 would not be counted a day till the sun rose in the east. Thus Judges 5:31 may refer to both the sun descending from the west at midnight and suddenly ascending from the east September 1. The sun must have gone 180° or 540° east 2 AM September 1 rather than west to give light for Gideon and perhaps inspired the writer of Judges to picture the might of moving the sun suddenly with earth's rotation, east, to ascend in the west rather than traveling west. Probably the sun moved 540° east for the sun to rise in the west for about 30 hours of daylight rather than 180° east for only some six hours of daylight.
II Kings 20:10 "It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees."
That Gideon returned before the sun ascended September 1 may refer the sun sun descending from the west the night of August 31. An example of the might in moving the sun likened to running a race is also given in Psalm 19 -
Psalm 19:4 "Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end of heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof."
In Chinese the sun is Yang Man and the moon Yin Woman. Thus the sun is likened to a man running a race. Moreover, this verse may be speaking about sun miracles rather than the daily sunrise. When the sun traveled 180° west, as it often did in the series of 4 sun miracles, the sun must brighten and travel very fast across the sky. The sun must brighten several times to leave the same daily coral line and when the sun traveled 180° west the day would last only 3 hours or so. Thus, the sun traveling west in a sun miracle is like a strong man to race, race across the sky. And nothing is hid from the heat thereof because the sun must shine several times brighter. Such as when the sun ascended right after Gideon returned from battle. The dimming and brightening of the sun may be light refracted or reflected to and away from the earth rather than the sun burning less hot and much hotter. The lessons of the day also speak of creation. The coming of Christ was proclaimed to the world in ancient times through sun miracles. There were no more sun miracles after his coming. Gideon must have had light to fight the battle:
Psalm 97:11 "Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart."
Perhaps Debra and Barak could sing about the stars fighting against Sisera in Judges 5:20 and the sun in Judges 5:31 because the sun moved 180° or 540° east for a sudden sunrise, surprise attack and complete victory. That night they would see the stars from the other half of heaven and realize the sun and moon and planets had moved 180° past the stars. They may have realized the sun and moon and planets actually moved 540°. Also, if earth shifted the 70° clockwise 2AM September 1 and 70° counterclockwise at 5AM September 1 1238 BC while the stars were out, the stars would appear to move west several times faster than just by earth's rotation. Also, Israel would be turning into earth's forward path before the sun rose in the west. This means Israel should see meteor showers, perhaps the stars in their courses. Meteor streams in earth's path have resulted from the gradual breakup of comets that once moved in similar orbits to earth's. The Chinese recorded meteor showers, the stars fell like rain, at least twice in association with a sun miracle. The earliest record of a meteor shower in China is in the Bamboo Books 2133 BC and may be in association with a sun miracle. It rained gold in Yu's eighth year 2198 BC, perhaps also a meteor shower on the night of a sun miracle upon which he may have been deposed. (1) "The Year 687 BC, in the summer, in the fourth moon, in the day sin mao (23 March according to the Chinese reference book on sexagesimal dates), during the night, the fixed stars did not appear, though the night was clear (cloudless). In the middle of the night stars fell like rain." (2) "In his 10th year (1807 BC), the five planets went out of their courses. In the night, stars fell like rain. The earth shook. The E and Loh (rivers) became dry." The Bible mentions it too, Joshua 10:11, Psalm 18:12, Daniel 8:10, Matthew 24:29, Revelation 6:13. On Joshua's long day the inner planets must stop and reverse in slow and the outer planets stop and reverse very fast (Saturn must go some 1,200,000 mph) to be in the same O'clock position in the night sky as they would have been in each season in a normal orbit. Then on Debra and Barak's short night the planets must move 180° or 540° with the sun back to where they would have been on that date relative to the sun. Earth would shift east and the stars appear to shift west also very suddenly - as they would be visible from China at 4 AM. Nevertheless, Israel would see the stars shift west, 70°, suddenly at 11 PM: "the stars in their courses fought against Sisera." Thus we need not look any further for the second reverse orbit that countered the missing 40 minutes from the first reverse orbit of Joshua's long day. A large pendulum set in motion will appear to turn 360° in 24 hours while earth rotated; 180° in 12 hours. A pendulum on Joshua's long day would do the same, always moving back and forth in the same direction while the sun moved 180° around the earth and earth rotated under it. Earth's rate of rotation does not seem to have changed from creation. Earth's speed of orbit in reverse must be accelerated 48 hours a year because rotation is against orbit, to keep 365 days a year. Then there really was a missing day of 24 hours because earth must accelerate 24 hours in half a year of a reverse orbit. A missing 24 hours as opposed to 24 hours of elapsed time. If the sun travelled 180° east instead of west August 31 1238 BC there would have been 24 hours of elapsed time that year too, both cancelling each other out in net time loss. The earth in free fall only means earth can wait till after the free fall to shift to keep in the same season. Earth was in free fall for the 12 hours of Joshua's long day but we do not know how long it took for the sun to move back half a year later. Possibly the sun moving 180° east February 25 1238 BC and earth shifting 70° clockwise was countered by the sun moving 180° east August 31 1238 BC and earth shifting 70° counterclockwise. There was 12 hours of Joshua's long day of elapsed time, and there either was 12 hours more of elapsed time August 31 if the sun moved 180° east or 12 hours less time if the sun moved 180° west August 31. Probably the sun moved 180° east both on Joshua's long day and when it returned half an orbit later. + 12hrs + 12hrs less 24 hours in earth's sped up reverse orbit and there would be just the 40 minutes of missing time for the reverse orbit of Joshua's long day. Thus earth must have continued to rotate exactly as it would have normally. Then although earth's orbit must have changed earth's rotation may have never changed since creation. Earth must accelerate 48 hours over one complete reverse orbit. So over half an orbit: 48 hours X 186.6 days / 365.25 days = 24 hours and 31 minutes. Now in 2008 Summer is 4.66 days longer than Winter and Spring is 2.9 days longer than Fall. However, that was not the case then because earth was nearest the sun on November 24 not January 3 as it is now in 2008. From February 25 12 PM 186.6 days to August 31. These two sun miracles are exactly half an orbit apart. Because earth's elliptical orbit takes earth farther from the sun in spring and summer meaning earth moves slower. So from the equinox March 20 to the equinox September 23 this year there are 186.4 days from March 20 9 AM to September 22 7 PM. There are only 185.7 days from the vernal equinox 1 PM April 2 1238 BC to the autumn equinox 6 AM October 5 1238 BC because the sun was nearest earth November 24. Then starting February 26 1238 BC would begin the slower half of earth's orbit thus the most days, 186 days and 14 hours, in half an orbit. There are 186.6 days in the half orbit from February 26 to September 1. After February 27 1237 BC days would continue on earth as if nothing had happened. The sun would have to travel very fast 2AM September 1 to keep ahead of earth's rotation. If the sun moved 180° in an hour the sun would end up at the 3PM position. Then the sun may have advanced more to the noon position in the remaining 360° eastward movement of the sun. And yet the sun must have been dimmed considerably. Earth must reorient during this time to keep in the same season because earth would then be in its regular orbit with earth. Probably the sun stood still in some part of the world at least giving Gideon twilight at least to fight by.
Isaiah connects the day of Judgment when Jesus comes again with Joshua's Long Day: Dead Sea Scroll words in bold.
Isaiah 28: 19 "From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night sheer terror: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter for people to stretch themselves on it: and the covering to wrap themselves in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bonds be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined of the whole earth."
It shall be a vexation only to understand the gospel after the redeemed meet the Lord in the air because it will be too late. To obey the Gospel is sheer joy.
Perazim refers to the Perezzites:
Joshua 17:15 "And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel."
Sisera had 900 chariots in Jezreel. Then the LORD rising up in mount Perazim may refer to the sudden sunrise in the west possibly 2 AM September 1 1238 BC. Joshua did not give them rest on the Saturday Sabbath after Joshua's long day Thursday/Friday February 25/26 lest the Amorites would escape, and they would be very tired after 24 hours of daylight:
Hebrews 4:7 "Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time: as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then would he not have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God."
. Thus "the bed shorter for people to stretch themselves on it" because they had no rest the day following on the Sabbath but continued to battle. "He shall be wroth in the valley of Gibeon" must refer to Joshua's long day. Then Joshua's long day may be "his strange work" and the sudden sunrise of Judges 4 & 5 and the defeat of Sisera may be "his strange act". - On the other side of earth would be a long night, hence the short bed. "The Hervey Island Legend: Te-eroi and Te-tareva heard there was a land of light. They built two canoes 'weary of darkness' and 'sleepless nights'.. " VS King Wan's dream was of the long sunset seen from China of Joshua's long day. "King Wan dreamt he was clothed in the sun and the moon". "Strange" work,
Strongs 2114 means to turn aside (for lodging) possibly the sun now lodged on the other side of earth. "Strange?" act,
Strongs 5237 means to recognize, acknowledge, understand, respect, discern. Ends with the letter "He", perhaps a question.
The Septuagint Isaiah 28:21b "he shall perform his works with wrath, even a work of bitterness, and his wrath shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange."
The Hymn of Deborah Judges 5 speaks of the Conquest of northern Palestine. Judges 5:31 may be the part of the book of Jasher referred to in Joshua 10:13.
Judges 4:17 "Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite."
Joshua 11:10 "And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor before time was the head of all those kingdoms."
Heber was a decendent of Moses' father in law, Hobab. This battle of Barak and Debra and Gideon must have taken place soon after Joshua's long day. Judges 5:20 " They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera."
Judges 5:31 "So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might."
- "courses" (mecillah) Strongs 4546 implies a revolving frame barrier that did not let Sisera through, a turnpike. Earth had flowed into a reverse orbit on Joshua's long day and the zodiac was in reverse, earth in reverse momentum around the sun. They would see the other half of the night sky February 26 1238 BC. Then half a year later the sun moved 180° back. Then earth would flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun and reorient and the progress of the stars be normal for the night of August 31 following the sun that rose in the west at 2AM September 1 set in the west 6 PM August 31. The sun rising in the west should not be counted as a day. Then the following night of September 1 at 6PM when the sun set after the short day, the night sky would again be 180° away and revolving one degree from the west each night as earth was again in a reverse orbit. The night in between the stars would be normal and would no longer rise 1° in the west each night but 1° in the east like normal, and that 180° away from the sun's previous day's position in the zodiac. The night of August 31 1238 BC after the second sunset at 6PM of the sun that rose dimmly in the west they had a typical August 31 night sky. That was short lived and when the sun set September 1 6PM they had a February 26 starry night sky. The February night sky they were expecting on August 31 in the reverse orbit never came. Instead they were greeted with the normal August 31 night sky. Likewise the night following the sun miracle marking the second reverse orbit they would see stars from the other half of heaven again. From sunrise 5AM September 1 to sunset 6PM September 1 must be only 3 or 4 hours, a short day.
Exodus 34:10 "10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels
, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite."
"'Marvels' (pil^i) Strongs 6381, preceded with "Nun" a command, (entreat). 'wonders' that are incomprehensible. Designates either cosmic wonders or historical achievements on behalf of Israel...things that are unusual, beyond human capabilities...it is essential that the miracle is so abnormal as to be unexplainable except as showing God's care or retribution."
Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law."
How God did it is his secret. However, we now may know what this means to the movement of the sun and the earth. Basics in our understanding of the sun and earth, our world and God's power. Jesus Hebrew name is Joshua. The conquest of Canaan by the Captain of our Salvation is summed up: "Thy love has wholly conquered I am wholly thine".
Joshua 3:5 "And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you."
Exodus 34:22 "And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end."
"at the year's end" means "coming round, circuit of time or space" "a revolution" - "t qupa" - Strongs 8622. God knew the earth revolved around the sun and very likely Moses knew this too. The year's end was the fall harvest, October, which would be just after the battle of Debrah and Barak September 1 1238 BC. Likewise if Moses' three days of darkness was the new moon March 21 1279 BC the beginning of months, the second correcting sun miracle could come half an orbit later, September 23 1279 BC - the 10th day of the seventh Egyptian moon could be the Day of Atonement, which Yom Kippur means, - the beginning of the civil year. If the sun also stood still for Moses at Rephidim in the second month in May it must be followed by two more correcting sun miracles to correct earth's shift. Unless God moved the sun around the earth 360° for a 24 hour sunset. March 21 was day 38 and September 23 was day 44 in China in 1279 BC for oracle bone records for a sun miracle on the Chinese day cycle of 60, we don't know what year, to match. The Day of Atonement was Day 10 September 23, the the seven days of the feast of tabernacles Day 15 Sunday September 28 to day 23 Sunday October 5, "on the first day a holy convocation and on the eighth day a holy convocation", the eighth day was also Sunday. Thus the return of the year on the day of Atonement could have meant the return to a normal orbit. The return of the sun to Virgo in September where it normally was, 180° from where it just was that day in Aquarius. However, if the three days of darkness of Moses was day 50 April 2 1279 BC, the day before the passover the night of April 3 1279 BC, then the sun may have moved back 187 days later October 5 1279 BC. Then earth would not have to shift at all because the sun moved on the equinoxes. This would be a Chinese night between day 56/57 of cycle 60. The significance of the lunar eclipse at sunset on day 56/57 August 12 1269 BC may have been strengthened with a sun miracle on a day 56/57 previous to the eclipse. Such as the phoenixes on day 57 in autumn September 21 2648 BC also. However, there is no record of a sun miracle for day 53 October 3 1279 BC. Nevertheless October 3, 1279 BC would be the 15th day of the seventh month, the first day of the feast of tabernacles. My guess there would not need to have been a feast of tabernacles because the children of Israel would already be in the promised land conquering it if they had obeyed Joshua and Caleb.
Leviticus 23:36 "Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein."
Xueshun Liu tells me there must be at least 140 years of kings from the lunar eclipse of day 56/57 because the King at the time was Wuding: "As for the reigns of those 8 Yin kings, I have published my estimation in China. Based upon evidence in the inscriptions, it is my opinion that those reigns were at least 140 years long." Which brings this lunar eclipse on day 56/57 to the last year of King Wuding 1269 BC, on August 12. Nevertheless, the incoming trouble on day 23 following the lunar eclipse on day 56/57 was on the day of Atonement, September 7 1269 BC. And emperors were often deposed on the event of a sun miracle and sun miracles often occurred on feast days. However, 186 days earlier there should be a sun miracle on day 16 and one and a half years earlier there could be a sun miracle on day 10. Perhaps the solar eclipse on day 10 in the evening March 6 1270 BC. Then there must be a final sun miracle in the series of 4 March 6 1268 BC, 1300 years before Jesus' crucifixion. Half an orbit earlier was the first day of the year, the first day of the month Nissan. This was Chinese day 15 when possibly the first sun miracle may have been. This may have been by design because a sun miracle on the first of the year would be followed by one 187 days later on the day of Atonement the end of the civil year. Now back to this oracle bone incription for day 57 is for a lunar eclipse at sunset August 12 1269 BC: "After seven days, at the time from jiwei (day 56) to gengshen (day 57), the moon was eclipsed." There were two inscriptions, perhaps of the same naturally occurring lunar eclipse. This is supposed to be the lunar eclipse of August 14 1166 BC. "Those experts in modern astronomy can calculate the time and date of all early eclipses very accurately. Consider their results and information deduced from oracle bone inscriptions together, the year of that lunar eclipse has been identified as 1166 BC." "If that lunar eclipse record indeed refers to the eclipse on Aug. 14, 1166 BC, which is most likely correct, then Wu could not possibly begin the Zhou dynasty in 1122 BC, because there were eight kings between the Yin king of that eclipse and Wu. Clear inscriptional evidence shows that the rule of those eight kings were much longer than 44 years." "As for the reigns of those 8 Yin kings, I have published my estimation in China. Based upon evidence in the inscriptions, it is my opinion that those reigns were at least 140 years long." Xueshun Liu This is because the King was Wuding who reigned to 147 years before the fall of the Shang dynasty. There are only 44 years from this 1166 BC to 1122 BC when Wu became emperor in the common chronology. The common chronology is sometimes refered to as the "long chronology" and the Bamboo Book chronology as the "short chronology". However in the common chronology this lunar eclipse is rather August 31 1238 BC when there was no lunar eclipse. The common chronology is the chronology passed on down unaltered. Their revised chronology has the conquest of Wu (Woo) 1050 BC when it is rather 72 years earlier in 1122 BC. Thus if 1122 BC was the year of Wu's conquest and the beginning of the Chow dynasty the rule of those eight kings to be 116 years and would place the "lunar eclipse" to be August 31, 1238 BC when there was no lunar eclipse. However, the length of reign of these eight kings must be at least 140 years according to Xueshun. Meaning the Chinese may not continue to insist this was a record of the August 14 1166 BC lunar eclipse. There are two lunar eclipse records for day 56/57. However Xueshun wrote: "After checking those inscriptions again, my answer is they could not be for two separate events that were 40 years apart." Then probably they are for the same naturally occurring lunar eclipse. 157 years before the Chow dynasty would be day 56/57 October 5 1279 BC half an orbit after Moses' three days of darkness April 1 1279 BC. However the 12th month is for August. The sun and moon must have moved back August 31 1238 BC half an orbit after Joshua's long day. The sun and moon may have moved back October 5 1279 BC half an orbit after the three days of darkness in Egypt. Both August 31 1238 BC and October 5 1279 BC are an 18th day moon, just past full moon. Likewise if the sun and moon returned a year after Joshua's long day February 25 1237 BC it would be on an 18th day moon also. Thus the moon would be visible to China if the sun moved back in the first year. This is what the Chinese would have seen even though we have no record from them of it. These are not this Chinese record of day 56/57 in August and in King Wuding's reign. Most importantly the only record that meets all the criteria is the lunar eclipse on day 56/57 August 12 1269 BC 6:30 PM Anyang China, the last year of King Wuding:
Image produced by TheSky 1:40AM August 13 1269 BC.
This is the NASA lunar eclipse page: Lunar Eclipses: -1299 to -1200

U.T.    Greatest    Saros             Pen.   Umb. S.D. S.D.  GST    Moon  Moon
Date    Eclipse     Type #    Gamma   Mag.   Mag. Par  Tot  (0 UT)   RA    Dec
-1268 Aug 12  10:20   N    8  -1.265  0.540 -0.435   -    -   20.6  20.70 -19.9

1268 is rather 1269 BC because there is no 0 BC. 10:20 Universal time is 6:20 PM in Anyang China. The sun would set at 7PM and the moon would just be rising. Thus it is possible with the margin of error of more than plus or minus one hour that this eclipse was visible in Anyang China. When I look at China from the position of the earth's shadow at 10:20 AM UT, I can just barely see China, thus China should just barely be able to see the last of the lunar eclipse. These two records for day 56 appear to be for the same day. Evenso, August 31 1238 BC is also month 12 day 56. To get the date of day 56 you start from day 60 January 2 1500 BC. 1500 - 1269 BC = 231, 231 X 365.25 (Julian) = 84372.75, add one day because February 29 1269 BC was leap year, 84373 / 60 = 1406.2167 We are only interested in the .2167, .2167 X 60 = 13 Then January 2 1269 BC was day 13, keep adding days to August 12 = 234, 234 / 60 = 3.9, .9 X 60 = 55. The 60 day cycles were sometimes out a day in dating eclipses I have read, then August 12 1269 BC must have been this day 56. If the year of 60 was given it would be the 49th year of 60.
This must be the one, 147 years before the beginning of the Chow dynasty in 1122 BC according to the common chronology. Then "those reigns were at least 140 years long", that is 147 years long to King Wuding's last year. If so this proves the common chronology to be correct and Joshua's long day/Wan's dream February 25/26 1238 BC also to be correct. Because king Wan's dream was the year of his birth thus his right to be emperor of China and he lived to be 100 years old in legend. There are 36,000 people in Japan over 100 this year 2008. Then king Wan's death in 1135 BC in the common chronology means his birth and Joshua's long day must be February 26 1238 BC. Then also this record of a lunar eclipse on day 56 August 12 1269 BC depicts 2 missing days! Because August 12 1269 BC should be day 54. There likely was a sun/moon miracle half an orbit after Joshua's long day in any case. "At the time period from the night of the seventh day jist (day 6) to...there was a big new star that was seen beside Mars." Heji 11503b Or otherwise translated: "Three flames ate the sun and a great star was seen". This could be the the total eclipse June 5 1302 BC. However, June 5 1302 BC is Day 53 not day 6. Then this record may not be an eclipse. Moreover, it was reported today that this was China's first eclipse record recorded in oracle bones not far from today's eclipse August 1 2008 on China's ancient Silk Road. They point to the flames visible on the edges of the moon. This may not be so. The wording of the record does not simply read three flames ate the sun. Most experts do not believe this was an eclipse record. These records were in the reign of King Wuding from 1324 BC to 1269 BC. There was a lunar eclipse on day 57 November 24 1311 BC. The 12th month being the month before the winter solstice. August 12 1269 BC or November 24 1311 BC are in Wuding's reign. Thus the lunar eclipse on day 57 just verifies the common chronology, the chronology of Joshua's long day being February 26 1238 BC. "This was the 12th month was the month of the Yin calendar. It was several months slower than our current calendar." Xueshun Liu This must be August. This is the same as the Hebrew calendar that begins the year at Yom Kippur in September. Likewise the name for day in Chinese is Yue like Yom. Moon in Chinese is Yue and the day of the moon is Yue.
Crack-making on guichou (day 50), [X] divined: "[In the next] 10-day week, there will be no disasters." On the seventh day jiwei (day 56), [when the night] cut the gengshen day (day 57), the moon was eclipsed.
Crack-making on guihai (day 60), [X] divined: "[In the next] 10-day week, there will be no disasters." The king read the crack and declared: "There would be a curse."
Crack-making on guiyou (day 10), [X] divined: "[In the next] 10-day week, there will be no disasters."
Crack-making on guiwei (day 20), Zheng divined: "[In the next] 10-day week, there will be no disasters." The king read the crack and declared, "There would be a curse." On the third day yiyou (day 22), [when] the night cut the bingxu day (day 23), there indeed came [a curse. There was] incoming trouble. [Day bingxu was in the] thirteenth month.
The incoming trouble could be the death of king Wuding. Or possibly a sudden sunset, sun miracle, whereupon King Wuding may have been deposed. This when night cut the day also symbolized the red dragon perhaps a long sunset. Perhaps after the lunar eclipse at sunset "[when the night] cut the gengshen day (day 57)" at 7PM August 12 1269 BC the moon showed some of the last of earth's shadow when it rose at 8PM. There may have been a sun miracle when "night cut the bingxu day (day 23)" and this taken as a strong omen because of the lunar eclipse just weeks before just after sunset. Then at the same time of day as the lunar eclipse, at sunset, Wuding was deposed.
Jeremiah 10:2 "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them."
This day 22 was the 10th day of the 7th Hebrew lunar month Saturday September 7 1269 BC, Yom Kippur - the day of Atonement, the new year. The jubile may have originally been planned for 1269 BC because 50 year increments add up to the last jubile when Jesus spoke from Isaiah 61:1 and fulfilled the jubile of Leviticus 23 in Luke 4:18 Saturday September 15 31 AD to preach the acceptable year of the LORD - to preach the Gospel. 969 years from the flood in 3637 BC was 2668 BC. If we count the years as the years of Jesus' ministry, we could see 3639 BC a year and a half from the flood on April 12 3637 BC as in keeping with the day of Atonement when Jesus spoke from Isaiah 61:1 and fulfilled it. Then 3639 BC - 969 years = 2670 BC in keeping with the 50 year cycles to this day of Atonement. The feast of tabernacles followed five days later and was to be kept in booths:
Leviticus 23:43 "That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out, of the land, of Egypt: I am the LORD your God."
50 years previous to 1269 BC is 1319 BC when Moses thought to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt. 50 years previous to that is 1369 BC perhaps when Seti I became pharaoh and perhaps also when there was the sun miracle depicted on the ceiling of his tomb. There was a sun miracle in China in 2698 BC when Huang di became emperor and started the cycle of 60 days. If this sun miracle was about December 3 2698 BC or January 31 2697 BC the cycle of 60 days could have begun from that date. Then there was a sun miracle 50 years later in 2648 BC day 57 perhaps September 21 at Abraham's birth and 50 years later in 2598 BC and 50 years later was Isaac's birth in 2548 BC. Isaac died in 2368 BC perhaps from when this 50 year jubile was reckoned to be at 50 year intervals till Jesus fulfilled the jubile in 31 AD. When also, 2368 BC, there was new emperor in China possibly due to a sun miracle. Because Isaac was a type of Christ and he could look ahead to the day Jesus would come and preach the Gospel just a year and half before they would crucify him. From 2368 BC to 1269 BC is 1099 years which is 777 years in duodecimal. That is, 7 X 144 + 7 X 12 + 7. Likewise Enoch preached the Gospel - see Jude, was born about year Sothis 300 3936 BC and lived 65 years to about 3871 BC when he was translated so he did not see death.
Jesus came to take away the curse of the Law with the New Testament:
Mark 14:22 "And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take eat: this is my body.
23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many."

See the book of Jasher. Joshua waited almost a year to attack the Amorites noted in the record of the sun standing still at noon in the month of Adar, February/March. A sun miracle is also noted in Judges 5:31. Therefore Judges 4 and 5 must have occurred half an orbit after Joshua's long day at the soonest. The soonest is August 31 1238 BC. Also, king Wan's dream matches Joshua's long day February 25 1238 BC in every astronomical detail. Therefore Joshua's Long Day is solved. To quote Reasons to Believe:
"In any case, ancient eclipse observations are not given with an accuracy of a few minutes even by local time. Therefore, confirmation of Joshua's 23 hours 20 minutes or even 24 hours remains, to date, beyond the reach of human or computerized calculations." This calculation is not beyond our reach. I have demonstrated it here with absolute certainty.
The missing time of the day of Joshua's long day is not a missing 24 hours but a missing 12 hours. The sun sun stood still in the sky for 12 hours while the sun moved 180° east to the other side of earth. This is elapsed time as opposed to missing time. Earth must speed up its reverse orbit 24:20 hours from 12 PM February 26 1238 BC to 2 AM September 1 1238 BC because orbit is against rotation to keep the same number of days in the year. Or else there would be 366 days that year. Then the sun must move back 540° 2 AM September 1 1238 BC. Probably the sun moved 180° east making a +12 hours. Then +12 hours -24:20 hours +12 hours in 1238 BC leaving 40 minutes, actually 31 minutes, in net missing time. You might write this as 40 minutes for simplicity's sake. Hmm, the spacemen discovering the Missing Day as the story goes were still missing 40 minutes.
John 11:9 "Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day?"
This is a reference point of 180°. The sun stood still for about a day, for 12 hours.
Matthew 12:38 "Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
40 For as Jonas was thee days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."
Jesus in Hebrew is Joshua. The people may have thought they could see a sun miracle from Jesus just as from Joshua when Jesus the Son of God was right before them. Sun miracles were done for a reason, a critical battle, a sign of Jesus' coming etc and not for show and not necessary when Jesus was right there amongst them. Today people often ask me where is the scientific evidence for sun miracles? So they can explain it away. They just want a magic trick.
Matthew 4:3 "And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
Matthew 17:1 "And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light."
God's purpose in creation is to make a kingdom for his Son. And so is God's purpose in these sun miracles. And so is the purpose of this web site, to prove the power of my Heavenly Father so that you too will seek and find Jesus and make him your King too.
This verse implies there was a sun miracle for Jonah:
Jonah 3:3 "So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was a city of God of three days' journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a days' journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown."
Nineveh was where the descendents of Noah settled and is beside Ur of the Chaldeans of Abraham. The most dense population of the J2 Y chromosome is there at the foothills of Mount Ararat. 20% of the Jewish population have this J2 chromosome and share a common about 10,000 years ago. Noah's ancestors may have come from there then moved to the place which God destroyed by flood after which Noah returned. Kerek Ur - round lord, and Egeto Ur - scorching lord, are Sumerian for Sun. Thus it was a city of God. A great city of 60 miles in circumference taking three days to circle. Jonah was in the whale's belly three days then travelled to Nineveh and arrived on day one, Sunday, the morrow after the sabbath of the passover, Sunday. "a day" in the verse in Hebrew says "day one" may mean day one Sunday. There is the possibility the sun stood still long enough for Jonah to circle the city Sunday. However, the significance of Jonah's message was that God delivered him out of the whale's belly and sent him to Nineveh. The forty days must count from Sunday. The Hebrews did not name their days, they numbered them one to seven. Jonah was in the whale's belly the same days Jesus was in the heart of the earth. Jonah preached from this Sunday: "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown". The same forty days of Noah's flood from Saturday/Sunday April 12 3637 BC. The same forty days the 12 spied out the promised land from Sunday March 29 1278 BC. The same forty days, in the third month that is, Moses was in Mount Horeb with God when God gave him the ten commandments - the two tables of testimony, written with the finger of God. The same forty days Elijah went on to go to the same mount Horeb. The same forty days Jesus was tempted 31 AD February/March. The same forty days Jesus appeared after his resurrection from Sunday April 9 30 AD or from Sunday April 5 33 AD. The 50 days of Pentecost were numbered from the morrow after the sabbath of the passover, - see Leviticus 23. Sunday, April 5 33 AD the day following Jesus' crucifixion was the fifteenth day of the lunar month and thus a Sabbath. Because they counted their days from evening. Thus the evening of the passover following Jesus' crucifixion was counted as Saturday the Sabbath day. Thus the 50th day of Pentecost that year would be on Sunday.
II Kings 14: "He (Jeroboam II) restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher."
This may have been on the Jubile at 790 BC, the time to restore lost land.

More about Joshua's long day:

Probably the sun moved instantly with earth's rotation to stand still for 12 hours, 180°, at sunset on China as per the Chinese record attributed to king Wan's dream below. Joshua 10:13b "So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day" Probably the sun stayed at the noon position for 12 hours. Joshua 10:12a "Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, moon upon Ajalon". (Gibeon was on the 31:50 Latitude and 35:10 Longitude and Joshua 10 miles west in the Ajalon valley. Givat Zeev is built on this location and you can see a cloud about where Joshua saw the moon that day. Joshua was facing south in "the going down to Beth-hor-on" by the city of Ajalon, the valley running east west through the town and rather it was the valley to the east that was being referred to.
Joshua 10:11 "And it came to pass, as they fled from before the Israel, and were in the going down of Beth-hor-on, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died of the hail stones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, sun stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, moon upon Ajalon."
Joshua commanded the sun and moon to stand still at the going down of Beth-hor-on. "House of caves - the pass of Bethoron was a difficult part of the road from Jerusalem to the sea. Between the Upper and Lower or Nether Bethoron the distance is 1 3/4 miles, and the descent 700 feet. Beyond Lower Bethoron, the ravine widens out into the valley of Aijalon." Cambridge Bible, Bible Dictionary, Beth-horon. The sun perhaps directly south on his right hand and the moon rising on his left on the valley of Ajalon - the sixth day of the moon as recorded by king Wan in China at sunset February 25 1238 BC.
Psalm 44:3 "For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them."
Joshua said Israel should go up and possess the land. They did not and wandered in the wilderness forty years.
Numbers 14:9 "Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their shade is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not."
Joshua may have known God would make the sun stand still at noon that October 1 1279 BC when the sun must return from the half orbit of the three days of darkness. When also the sun must have stood still October 1 1280 BC at night for a long night's rest, on the new moon, from Israel's bondage in Egypt when God had respect unto them in giving them rest. The long night of September 30 1280 BC Egypt would be the dawn of October 1 1280 BC China, long morning. That October 1 1279 BC would be when the fruits were gathered. Then Joshua and Caleb said to go up at once Wednesday October 1 in on the lunar day 14, just before the first day of the feast of tabernacles October 2 1279 BC, when the 12 brought the fruits of the land back to begin the feast of tabernacles. See Leviticus 23. Grapes and figs and pomegranates would be ripe in September.
Numbers 13:23 "And they came unto the brook Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs."
Then that night they could go up at once and know they would have 12 more hours daylight that day to get complete victory. Numbers 14:40 "And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned."
Numbers 14:45 "Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwell in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah."
Hormah is about 60 miles north of Kadesh. So for the Amalekites and Canaanites to chase them 60 miles they would need 12 hours more daylight. Just as Joshua chased them 41 years later from Gibeon to Makkedah. Perhaps inspired thus Joshua asked God to make the sun stand still 41 years later when they entered the promised land. "their shade (defence) is departed from them" may have been intended to mean the sun would stand still at noon for 12 hours in the heat of the battle so there would be no shade to hide in. The oracle bone describing a dragon taking the form of a rainbow at sunset in China would have meant the angel of the sun was surrounded by his glory when he went about to make the sun suddenly set in China and suddenly set on Egypt for the three days of darkness when Joshua was a young man and thus he would know and have faith God could make the sun stand still as well. Certainly he would know of some of the sun miracles God had done and known of God's power. The children of Israel would know about sun miracles while they were down in Egypt. There was one in 2287 BC, about 2274 BC, 2154 BC, 1891 BC, 1807 BC, 1788 BC, 1765 BC. Records of which Joshua probably knew of because sun miracles were meant for the children of Israel. Perhaps Joshua was the only person to actually command a sun miracle.
Psalms 84:11 "For the LORD God is a sun and a sheild: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly."
The forty days was from the the time of ripe grapes, see Numbers 9. Thus if they went up at once the battle would be on Thursday October 2 1279 BC. Thus Joshua and Caleb stood up on the day before the first day of the feast of tabernacles, on Wednesday October 1, to encourage the children of Israel to go up at once. The twelve went to search out the land at the time of ripe grapes.
Numbers 13:23 "And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff;"
The Gospel was always meant to be carried by two of God's servants, perhaps these were Joshua and Caleb. God's true servants carry the gospel two and two today. The message is the same:
Numbers 13:30b "Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." The message is
Hebrews 4:7 "Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts."
Thus if they obeyed they would have gone up to conquer Canaan the next day when God would make the sun stand still to finish them off. Thus likely the sun would have stood still Thursday October 2 1279 BC as it stood still Thursday/Friday February 25/26 1238 BC. Whether February 25 or 26 depends on what day the Chinese chose as the sixth day of the lunar month. Not so simple because there are 29.5 days in a typical lunar month rounding to 29 or 30. In February 25 1238 BC the 6 day old moon would rise in the east at 9AM and appear over the hills by 11AM. On February 26 the moon would rise at 10 AM and appear over the hills by noon for Joshua to see. If the sun stood still February 26 the sun should stand still Sunday February 27 1237 BC at noon again for Joshua to have more daylight again, this time to chase the Midianites into Syria at the battle of Merom. Sunday would be prefered to a Saturday to do battle.
In China as the sun stood still at sunset the moon would stay directly south moving up to directly above, as per king Wan. That is, the sun and moon moved 180° along the ecliptic plane, the moon moving up in the sky to the summer solstice inclination, 80° straight up, by the eighth hour of the sun's 12 hour 180° movement. Likewise, Jupiter and Saturn would rise to 80° with the moon. Joshua 10:13b "the sun stood still in the midst of heaven" more literally "the sun stood still from the half of heaven" appears to have a double meaning. Joshua must have asked God to make the sun stand still at noon for the sun to be setting on western China and the sun must have moved to the other half of heaven appearing to stand still in the sky from our spinning earth. When they saw the sun had moved 180° from Aquarius to Virgo the people of God would understand the sun had revolved halfway around the earth with earth's rotation that day and further understand the earth rotates each day and the sun stands still. The ancients would observe the sun's glow to the north at midnight in June/July and realize the sun was not moving but the earth rotating.
For example, Pythagoras, 525 BC, 175 years before Aristotle, proposed that the sun was the center of the universe. He also determined the moon was round, thus earth must be round also. Anaxagoras determined earth's shadow on the moon produced the lunar eclipse by 430 BC. Aristarchus, 310 BC - 230 BC, was the first to theorize that the earth and planets revolve around the sun. He appears to have been born the year the shadow lengthened ten cubits and rose a cubit in China in 312 BC when the sun, moon and planets must have moved 180° when Greece settled in Israel and died the year the sun retreated from the sunset postion in the west to the meridian in China when the sun and planets must have moved 180° east. Well before Columbus in 1492 AD thinking people knew the earth was round. It was Aristotle that proposed earth was the center of the universe and not the sun. The catholic church adopted his position which had nothing to do with the Bible.
I Thessalonians 5:8 "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love: and for a helmet, the hope of salvation."
Joshua's long day probably was an inspiration to Paul to write these words. The extra daylight was needed to get the victory:
Joshua 10:10 "And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah."
From Ajalon at noon Joshua's army had to march 18 miles to Azekah and 30 miles to Makkedah. With the extra 12 hours plus the extra 4.6 hours of shift (6 +12 +4.6 = 22.5 hours day light after noon) Joshua's army would have enough time to march the 30 miles to Makkedah, roll the great stones on the cave on the five kings, slay all the enemy, then open the mouth of the cave and hang the five kings, and leave them hanging for some time till the sun finally set that day in Joshua 10:28, hardly possible in just 6 hours.
Joshua 10:21 "And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel."
All of the people would have to return in the daylight also, to Makkedah! The fact that the Israelites continued fighting while the entire solar system rotated around the earth only means God kept earth 100% intact, as if nothing was happening (other than the trembling of the curtains of the tents of Midian - Habakkuk 3:7. This may be the sunrise in the west for Gideon.).
Joshua 1:4b "and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast."
The city Moses named "Utter Destruction" Hormah in Numbers 21:3 Joshua renamed Bethshemesh "House of the Sun", Joshua 19:22, perhaps just 12 miles out of Ajalon. The five kings may have been hanged on crosses at noon, after the sun completed the 180° and started to set, just as Jesus and the two thieves where hanged at noon and were taken down at sunset. Perhaps foretelling when Israel, the Jews, would crucify their king, Jesus. Then the sun must have stood still at the noon position for 12 hours then began to set when the five kings were hung. Perhaps the Chinese counted Friday February 26 1238 BC the sixth day of the moon instead of Thursday. February 20 may have been counted day 30 from rounding the 29.5 day lunar month - the Chinese used 29 day and 30 day months alternately. The traditional Chinese calendar is basically lunar, the sixth day must be the sixth day of the lunar month. The Chinese had 28 lunar months when there are 29.5 days in a lunar month perhaps because the Chinese kept the seven days of the seven luminaries, the sun, moon, mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn. Thus the six day of the moon may also have meant the sixth day of the week. (The moon would be just to the left of the five planet conjunction February 26 1238 BC rather than in the middle February 25 1238 BC. The moon would rise at 10AM on February 25 and a fuller moon at 11AM on February 26 just appearing before Joshua gave his command at noon.) February 26 1238 BC is 35 days before the vernal equinox April 2. Likewise the sun miracle of August 31 1238 BC is 35 days before the autumnal equinox October 5. Thus Joshua may have foretold Jesus' crucifixion on Friday.
Joshua 10:32a "And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day,"
The second day is Monday. This means Joshua's long day must have been Friday, passed from Makkedah Saturday, took Libnah Sunday and then took Lachish Monday. Joshua does not say they rested Saturday.
Hebrews 4:7 "Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time: as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then would he not have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God."
Put yourself in the place of a soldier in Joshua's army. You have marched all night and pursued, chased, the enemy to Ajalon by noon. You have come 40 miles, a 4000 foot climb from Gilgal, in 18 hours and now you have to chase the enemy another 30 miles in just 6 hours before dark! The fleeing Amorites had a head start and were fresh. This was February - note the hail - and sunset at 5:30PM. If earth shifted the 70° clockwise keeping the same inclination to the sun as the sun moved the 180° that extra 12 hours would be 4.6 hours more; from noon: +5.5 +12 +4.6 = +22.1 hours to sunset. If earth shifted during this 12 hours of earth's free fall then the five kings would have been crucified about 18 hours after Joshua's command to the sun. Thus this would have been noon Friday. Jesus was crucified with the two thieves on noon Friday. If earth shifted back after sunset there would be an extra 1.4 hour September 1 inclination from the February 25 inclination sunset time. This extra 1.4 hours would be offset once earth completed the 70° clockwise shift. Possibly earth shifted back that night into the next day, leaving a +4.6 hours of night in which to rest from the long day. If earth shifted after the stars had come out in China, China would see the stars almost stand still as earth shifted. The ecliptic axis would be above North America, the axis moving across the continent as earth rotated, meaning China would experience the full benefit of the shift; stars standing still and high winds. Gravity can hold the oceans from moving. However, the upper atmosphere would move when earth shifted at least 100 miles per hour creating strong winds below. Possibly the sun stood still at noon for 12 hours then proceeded to set in 6 hours like normal. There may have been 24 hours of daylight to 27.6 hours of daylight that day. The sun would be in the sky for 11 hours in a normal February 25 day. The sun must remain in the noon position for exactly 12 hours for the sun to revolve 180° around the earth. Thus the sun stood still for about a whole day, 12 hours. If earth shifted back after then earth must shift back during the night and the sun rise a few hours early the next morning. The Canaanites were expecting to escape in the darkness but the extra 12 hours gave Israel enough time to finish them off and gain the victory. Jesus walked up this route from Jericho on Palm Sunday before he was crucified and got the victory over death at his resurrection that next Sunday. The palm branch was a symbol of triumph and victory and because Jesus name in Hebrew is Joshua a parallel is made between Jesus and Joshua. You will read on to
Joshua 10:27 "And it came to pass at the going down of the sun..
28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah".
This is the sunset to Joshua's long day. There is no way the events from Joshua 10:10 to Joshua 10:28 could happen in one day unless the hours of daylight were extended several hours. They followed Jesus, and Jesus gave them the victory. Note the same hail in:
Exodus 9:25 "And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both men and beast: and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field."
Joshua 10:11 "And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-hor-on, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they were more which died with hailstones than the children of Israel slew with the sword."
Isaiah 28 speaks about Joshua's long day as the day of judgment. Likewise Isaiah 24. Joshua's long day then must have been almost one year after Joshua crossed the river Jordan:
Exodus 23:29 "I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee."
Deuteronomy 7:22 "And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed."
Joshua's long day was almost one year after the crossing of the river Jordan, Sunday, April 12, 1239 BC. Likewise Deborah/Barak/Gideon's battle must have been on a day in September/October/November 1238 BC 6 to 9 months after Joshua's long day, perhaps also when in Joshua 11 Joshua defeated King Jabin at Merom and burned the capital Hazor. 1238 BC was 24 hours shorter than a regular year because earth's orbit must have been sped up 24 hours for the half year of the reverse orbit from February 25 1238 BC to August 31 1238 BC. Earth must speed up its orbit or there would be 366 days that year because rotation is against orbit. This leaves 24 hours of missing time. Then if there ever was a missing 24 hours Missing Day associated with Joshua's long day this would be it. The sun may have been dimmed while it stood still in the sky to leave the same daily coral line, coral polyps lay down daily growth rings. "If a ring is added each day it could be that on a day with particularly bad weather no ring is added". Still the sun must have caused moderate to excessive weather highs that would in turn cause high winds. The sun goes through cycles of luminosity howbeit lasting decades and centuries. Also, I have read not much study has been made of daily coral lines for many years. Nevertheless, King Wan in China recorded high winds that day. Also, the Aztecs: "And they say that although all the gods died, even then the sun could not move and follow his path. Thus it became the charge of Ecatl, the wind, who arose and exerted himself fiercely amd violently as he blew. At once he could move him, who thereupon went on his way." The sun is naturally dimmed by clouds. Perhaps "the sun's heat wave was silenced" in order to leave no physical trace. Also, the chinese often report dark clouds gathered when the dragon appeared. This because the dragon was so bright the dark clouds hid the dragon. Such as it did on day 47 as per the oracle bone record in China, perhaps of the beginning of the three days of darkness in Exodus for Moses. Thus, Joshua may also have asked for clouds to hide the glory of the sun angel as it carried the sun to make it stand still in the sky. Such as the sun miracle when Jerusalem was taken:
Jeremiah 15:8 "Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noon-day: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD."
Ezekiel 32:7 "And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light."
Joshua commanded the sun to "damam" to be dumb also from which we get the word dim. Thus Joshua must have both commanded the sun to stand still and be dim. Jesus was silent before his accusers, Isaiah 53:7b "as a lamb before its shearers is dumb", - "'alam".
Luke 23:44 "And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst."
God darkened the sun when his Son was crucified, then also in earlier times.
Isaiah 24:23 "Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously."
The sun was darkened for three hours when Jesus was on the cross April 3, 33 AD and at sunset the moon was darkened by a lunar eclipse. If the sun was dimmed, slowed and made ashamed, then the moon must be dimmed even more so. In ancient times the Chinese recorded the sun and moon were dimmed. It was thought that these were in reference to oppression. However, a sun miracle could trigger an attack and some of these records of the sun and moon being dimmed may be sun miracles. Also, clouds appear where records were taken in China to hide the phoenix or dragon. The moon must move 180° also, or else that lunar month must be only 15 days. Then the moon should appear to stand still in the sky with the sun from our spinning earth. That is, on February 26 1238 BC the sun would move to the zodiac