1Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destructiona —doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them. 2So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
3Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying, 4“Come up and help me. We will attack Gibeon, because they have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”
5So the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces and advanced with all their armies. They camped before Gibeon and made war against it.
6Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, because all the kings of the Amorites from the hill country have joined forces against us.”
7So Joshua and his whole army, including all the mighty men of valor, came from Gilgal.
8YHVH said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for I have delivered them into your hand. Not one of them shall stand against you.”
9After marching all night from Gilgal, Joshua caught them by surprise. 10And YHVH threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah. 11As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, YHVH cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
12On the day that YHVH gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to YHVH in the presence of Israel:
“O sun, stand still over Gibeon,
O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”b
13So the sun stood still
and the moon stopped
until the nation took vengeance
upon its enemies.c
Is this not written in the Book of Jashar?d
“So the sun stopped
in the middle of the sky
and delayed going down
about a full day.”e
14There has been no day like it before or since, when YHVH listened to the voice of a man, because YHVH fought for Israel.
Joshua 10:1-14
MB IIB archaeology at el-Jib fits abandonment rather than destruction of Gibeon as in the Joshua Conquest narratives