8 Bible Verses about Constellations
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Who made [the constellations] the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,
And the [vast starry] spaces of the south;
“Can you lead forth a constellation in its season,
And guide [the stars of] the Bear with her sons?
“By His breath the heavens are cleared;
His hand has pierced the [swiftly] fleeing serpent.
“Can you bind the chains of [the cluster of stars called] Pleiades,
Or loose the cords of [the constellation] Orion?
He who made the [cluster of stars called] Pleiades and [the constellation] Orion,
Who turns deep darkness into the morning
And darkens the day into night,
Who calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the surface of the earth,
The Lord is His name.
At the end of three months we set sail on a ship which had wintered at the island, an Alexandrian ship with the Twin Brothers [Castor and Pollux] as its figurehead.
For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash with their light;
The sun will be dark when it rises,
And the moon will not shed its light.
He got rid of the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense [to pagan gods] in the high places in Judah’s cities and all around Jerusalem—also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations [of the zodiac], and to all the [starry] host of heaven.
From Thematic Bible
Constellations » Orion
Who made [the constellations] the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,
And the [vast starry] spaces of the south;
He who made the [cluster of stars called] Pleiades and [the constellation] Orion,
Who turns deep darkness into the morning
And darkens the day into night,
Who calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the surface of the earth,
The Lord is His name.
Constellations » The serpent
“By His breath the heavens are cleared;
His hand has pierced the [swiftly] fleeing serpent.