There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man: for Yahweh fought for Israel.
Robert Dick Wilson, a competent and conservative Hebrew scholar, believed that both the sun and the moon experienced an eclipse by other heavenly bodies. [Note: Robert Dick Wilson, "Understanding ’The Sun Stood Still,’" in Classical Evangelical Essays in Old Testament Interpretation, pp. 61-65.] He argued that the Hebrew words translated "stand still" and "stood still" can be translated "be eclipsed" and "was eclipsed." This is another possible explanation. Various writers have suggested many other views and variations of these views. [Note: See Davis and Whitcomb, pp. 66-70, for several.] For example, John Holladay Jr. believed Joshua was voicing belief in astrology and was calling for a favorable alignment of the heavenly bodies. [Note: John S. Holladay Jr., "The Day(s) the Moon Stood Still," Journal of Biblical Literature 87 (1968):167-78.] David Howard Jr. suggested that God spoke the words in Joshua 10:12 b and Jos_10:13 a rather than Joshua. [Note: Howard, An Introduction . . ., p. 88.] Most interpreters take Joshua 10:12 b and Jos_10:13 a as Joshua’s words and believe he was praying to Yahweh.