 | Mark Twain - Americans - 1870 - 620 pages
...have rest and sleep as long as we wanted it. This was the plain of which Joshua spoke when he said, " Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon." As we drew near to Jaffa, the boys spurred up the horses and indulged in the excitement... | |
 | Cy Warman - Railroad stories - 1895 - 270 pages
...is in Jerusalem, — the only place where they suffer from drought and mosquitos at the same time. " Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, and there was no day like that before it or after it." So... | |
 | Mark Twain - American fiction - 1899 - 470 pages
...have rest and sleep as long as we wanted it. This was the plain of which Joshua spoke when he said," Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon." As we drew near to Jaffa, the boys spurred up the horses and indulged in the excitement... | |
 | Mark Twain - American fiction - 1899 - 466 pages
...have rest and sleep as long as we wanted it. This was the plain of which Joshua spoke when he said," Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon." As we drew near to Jaffa, the boys spurred up the horses and indulged in the excitement... | |
 | Samuel Miller - Bible and science - 1901 - 336 pages
...that the enemy's destruction could be made complete. These were his words : "In the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon ! And thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon !" Was that command honored? The two verses following it in the chapter, tell us that it... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1901 - 478 pages
...have rest and sleep as long as we wanted it. This was the plain of which Joshua spoke when he said," Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon." As we drew near to Jaffa, the boys spurred up the horses and indulged in the excitement... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Andrew Constantinides Zenos - Bible - 1910 - 684 pages
...looking back upon Gibeon and down upon the noble valley before him, he uttered the celebrated command: 'Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou moon, in the valley of Ajalon' (Josh. x:i2). From the indications of Jerome, who places Ajalon two Roman miles from Nicopolis,... | |
 | Mark Twain - American fiction - 1911 - 468 pages
...have rest and sleep as long as we wanted it. This was the plain of which Joshua spoke when he said," Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon." As we drew near to Jaffa, the boys spurred up the horses and indulged in the excitement... | |
 | Mark Twain - American fiction - 1911 - 482 pages
...have rest and sleep as long as we wanted it. This was the plain of which Joshua spoke when he said," Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon." As we drew near to Jaffa, the boys spurred up the horses and indulged in the excitement... | |
 | Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - Homiletical illustrations - 1912 - 702 pages
...days is when once we begin to watch it ! Inexorable, passionless — though hope and fear may pray, " Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon," — the tramp of the hours goes on. The poets paint them as a linked chorus of rosy forms,... | |
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Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon. 
