The "Bible" claims are childish and possibly were plagiarized from the Babylonians or the Greeks, who had far more knowledge of the cosmos. Around or before the time the last books of the Bible were written and revised, Eratosthenes already had measured the circumference and the tilt of the axis of the Earth quite accurately.
Eratosthenes (lived c 276 - 195 BCE)
He is best known for being the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth, which he did by applying a measuring system using stadia, a standard unit of measure during that time period. His calculation was remarkably accurate. He was also the first to calculate the tilt of the Earth's axis (again with remarkable accuracy). Additionally, he may have accurately calculated the distance from the Earth to the Sun and invented the leap day.[4] He created the first map of the world, incorporating parallels and meridians based on the available geographic knowledge of his era.