The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Don't slack your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.
The reference to the hailstones  (Joshua 10:11) and merely to "great stones from heaven" a moment earlier has led some to suppose that those terrible hailstones was accompanied by a shower of meteorites striking the earth precisely at that time and place.  Although possible enough, such a thing does not appear to us to be indicated at all in this text.  A terrible hailstorm can be damaging enough without any aid from falling meteorites.  In Washington, D.C. (1951-1953), a terrible hailstorm in Rock Creek Park severely damaged the trees by dumping millions of hailstones about the size of grapefruits!  Some of these were stored in deep-freeze units, and pictures were made of some of the larger ones resting in tumblers (four inches wide), the hailstones too large to go down!  Later, when visitors questioned the size of the hailstones, they were shown to them.  It will also be remembered that hailstones killed both men and cattle in Egypt  (Exodus 9:25).