In the beginning, alone with his sheep, 12-year-old Keshub, the fifth son of a potter, dreams about life beyond his valley while he practices thrusts and lunges against an unseen enemy with his wooden sword. In the end, Keshub saves the day with a real sword on the day the sun stood still. He hears about the mysterious Hebrew people as kings in Canaan build their armies. When he moves from shepherding to traveling to Jerusalem and Jericho to help sell his family’s pottery, Keshub sees for himself the impact the Hebrews are having in Canaan. As tensions mount and the Israelites draw near, he is thrust into the role of a spy watching from the height of the ridge above the Hebrew camp at Gilgal. From there Keshub becomes a witness and a key player on the day Joshua asks for the sun to stand still. Keshub’s family does not know the Hebrews’ God, but they and the Gibeonites refuse an alliance with neighboring city-states steeped in idol worship and child sacrifice to a god they deem to be no god at all. As the Hebrew horde is poised to invade, and as Gibeonite spies report the events unfolding, the potter becomes convinced the Hebrew God fights their battles for them. Not knowing if they will live or die, the Gibeonites seek an alliance with the enemy whose God made the flooded waters of the Jordan pile up so they could cross and brought down mighty Jericho with a shout. For a long time, the potter and his family had a hope there is a god who watches over them--the one who named the stars. Can the Hebrew God be the Star Namer? Suitable for middle schoolers to adults, Consolver weaves a deeply moving tale from the Biblical account of the Gibeonites’ deceiving the Hebrews’ in Joshua 9 and 10, adding color, texture and context that will deepen every Bible reader’s understanding.