Joshua 10:12-13: the Sun 'stood' at Gibeon, the Moon in the valley of Aijalon, 'in the midst of heaven'
The Hebrew verb (dom) usually means 'be silent / be still'; Humphreys and Waddington link it to a Babylonian eclipse term, 'stop shining'. The text places the Sun 'in the midst of heaven' (bahatsi hashamayim).
How it connects
This clue from people argues against
Joshua's 'Sun stand still' was the annular eclipse of 30 October 1207 BC 'midst of heaven' does not fit a Sun 7 degrees up
This clue from people is a clue for
Did Joshua's 'Sun stand still' at Gibeon remember a solar eclipse?
This clue from people we read it in
Humphreys and Waddington 2017, Solar eclipse of 1207 BC helps to date pharaohs, Astronomy & Geophysics 58, 5.39