Genesis 1:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

To rule

General references

Psalm 104:19

Psalm 136:7

Bible References

To rule

And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel,
“O sun, stand still at Gibeon,
And O moon in the valley of Aijalon.”

If I have looked at the sun when it shone
Or the moon going in splendor,

When the morning stars sang together
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

When I

consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,

The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;

Its rising is from one end of the heavens,
And its circuit to the other end of them;
And there is nothing hidden from its heat.

Yours is the day, Yours also is the night;

You have prepared the light and the sun.

To Him who made the great lights,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting:

Praise Him, sun and moon;
Praise Him, all stars of light!

For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash forth their light;
The sun will be dark when it rises
And the moon will not shed its light.

Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed,
For the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
And His glory will be before His elders.

The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.

Sun and moon stood in their places;

They went away at the light of Your arrows,
At the radiance of Your gleaming spear.

“But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and

the stars will fall

from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour.

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.

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

General references

He made the moon for the seasons;
The sun knows the place of its setting.

To Him who made the great lights,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting: