Genesis 1:16

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Genesis 1:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.

15 And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.

16 God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.

17 God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,

18 to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

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Deuteronomy 4:19

When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Joshua 10:12

On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”

Joshua 10:13

So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”

Joshua 10:14

There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man, because the LORD fought for Israel.

Job 31:26

if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

Job 38:7

while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Psalms 8:3

When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

Psalms 19:6

it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

Psalms 74:16

The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

Psalms 136:7

He made the great lights— His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 136:8

the sun to rule the day, His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 136:9

the moon and stars to govern the night. His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 148:3

Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.

Psalms 148:5

Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created.

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

Isaiah 24:23

The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Habakkuk 3:11

Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

Matthew 24:29

Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’

Matthew 27:45

From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

1 Corinthians 15:41

The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

Revelation 16:8

Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire.

Revelation 16:9

And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues; yet they did not repent and give Him glory.

Revelation 21:23

And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.