Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Joshua 10:15 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 15. 15And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
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Quick Meaning
Joshua 10:15 contributes this concrete line to the movement: “And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal”.
Joshua speaks to sun and moon in Israel's sight
This verse is one part of that explanation in Joshua 10:12-15. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Joshua 10:12–15
Read Joshua 10:15 with 10:12–15. Joshua 10:15 advances “Sun and Moon Stand in the Victory Poem” with the textual step “And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal”. The complete unit establishes this movement: Joshua addresses sun and moon in a poetic citation associated with the lost Book of Jashar; the narrator says the heavenly lights delayed until vengeance was complete and marvels that the LORD listened to a human voice.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Joshua 10:6-11 ends with this movement: Surprise, pursuit, and hail rout the attackers. Joshua 10:12-15 begins with this next step: Joshua's speech is embedded in battle and directed to celestial bodies. It reaches this outcome: Narration interprets an unparalleled day as the LORD fighting for Israel. This movement materially develops the book's concern with poetry, lost source, Hebrew verbs, astronomy and omen alternatives, miracle uncertainty, and violence. At Joshua 10:15, this verse contributes the following distinct step: Joshua 10:15 advances “Sun and Moon Stand in the Victory Poem” with the textual step “And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal”.
What Remains True
Joshua 10:15 contributes this bounded enduring truth: The passage's theological claim can be honored while the poem's physical mechanism and historical reconstruction remain uncertain.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Joshua 10:12-15 — Sun and Moon Stand in the Victory PoemSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Joshua 10:12-15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Joshua
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clauses, names, repeated roots, boundary formulas, covenant terms, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Josh.xml, 10:12–15
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Joshua with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level Hebrew, textual, translation, list, number, geographical, historical, and cross-reference notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Joshua PDF, printed pp. 432-434, translation and translator notes on 10:12–15
Open source ↗scholarly commentary article
Joshua
Richard D. Nelson
Oxford University Press, in The Oxford Bible Commentary, edited by John Barton and John Muddiman, 2001
Supports: Whole-book movement, literary boundaries, composition, history and archaeology limits, geography, theology, and material interpretive alternatives.
Exact location: Nelson, 'Joshua,' Oxford Bible Commentary, printed pp. 166-167, discussion of 10:12–15
Open source ↗