Joshua 10:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.'

As will be noted from what follows this statement seems to be in an unusual place, for the following verses continue with the pursuit. However it follows the extract from the Book of Jasher and is therefore clearly intended to close off that section, seen as an independent insertion. Joshua 10:16 is then to be seen as following Joshua 10:11. Putting the insertion (Joshua 10:12-15) in this place probably resulted from a desire to connect it with the other unusual weather phenomena. The point here is that for Joshua and Israel the whole venture ended successfully after the miraculous weather conditions, with the return to base camp, but in the context of the whole narrative the timing connects with Joshua 10:43.

Joshua 10:15

15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.