51 Bible Verses about Stars

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Genesis 1:16

And God will make two great lights; the great light for the rule of the day, and the small light for the rule of the night and the stars.

Psalm 136:7-9

To him making great lights: for his mercy is forever. The sun for the rulings in the day: for his mercy is forever. The moon and the stars for rulings in the night: for his mercy is forever.

Psalm 148:3-6

Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise ye him all the stars of light. Praise ye him, the heavens of heavens, and the waters above the heavens. They shall praise the name of Jehovah, for he commanded and they were created:read more.
And he will cause them to stand even to forever: he gave a law and it shall not pass away.

Job 9:7-9

Saying to the sun, and it shall not rise; and for the stars he will seal them up He alone spread out the heavens and he trod upon the heights of the sea. He made Ash-Chesil and Cimah, and the chambers of the south;

Job 38:31-33

Wilt thou bind the bands of the cluster, or wilt thou open the cords of Orion? Wilt thou bring forth the twelve signs in its time? and the great bear and his sons, wilt thou guide them? Knewest thou the laws of the heavens? or wilt thou set up its dominion in the earth?

Psalm 147:4-5

Counting the number to the stars, he will call names to all of them. Great our Lord, and great of power: to his understanding no number.

Isaiah 45:11-12

Thus said Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and his potter, Ask me of things coming concerning the sons, and concerning the work of my hands will ye command me? I made the earth, and man upon it I created: my hand stretched forth the heavens, and all their army I commanded.

Amos 5:8

He made the seven stars and Orion, and he turned the shadow of death to the morning, and he darkened the day to night: calling to the water of the sea, and he will pour them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah his name:

Deuteronomy 4:19

And lest thou shalt lift up thine eyes to the heavens, and seeing the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of the heavens, and thou wert driven and didst worship to them, and didst serve them, which Jehovah thy God divided them out to all the peoples under all the heavens.

Deuteronomy 17:3

And he will go and serve other gods and will worship to them, and to the sun or to the moon, or to any of the army of the heavens, which I commanded not;

2 Kings 23:4-5

And the king will command Hilkiah the great priest and the priests of the second rank, and the watchers of the threshold to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels being made for Baal and for the image, and for all the army of the heavens: and they will burn them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and he lifted up their dust to the house of God. And he caused the obscurations to cease which the kings of Judah gave, and he will burn incense in the heights in the cities of Judah, and those being round about Jerusalem, and those burning incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the army of the heavens.

Jeremiah 8:2

And they spread them to the sun and to the moon, and to all the army of the heavens which they loved, and which they served, and which they, went after, and which they sought and which they worshiped to them: they shall not be gathered and they shall not be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

Jeremiah 19:12-13

Thus will I do to this place, says Jehovah, and to its inhabitants, and to give this city as Tophet: And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah were defiled as the place of Tophet to all the houses which they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the army of the heavens, and pouring out libations to other gods

Amos 5:25-27

Did ye bring near to me sacrifices and gifts in the desert forty years, O house of Israel? Ye lifted up the tent of your king and the statue of your images, the star of your God which he made for you. And I caused you to be carried away captive farther off than Damascus, said Jehovah, God of armies his name.

Zephaniah 1:4-5

And I stretched out my hand upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I cut off from this place the remnant of Baal, with the name of the obscurations with the priests And those worshiping upon the roofs to the army of the heavens, and worshiping, swearing to Jehovah, and swearing to Malcham;

Acts 7:42-43

And God turned, and delivered them up to serve the army of heaven; as it has been written in the book of the prophets, Slain victims and sacrifices brought ye not to me forty years in the desert, O house of Israel, And ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, types which ye made to worship them: and I will transplant you beyond Babylon.

2 Kings 17:16

And they will forsake all the commands of Jehovah their God, and make to them a molten thing, two Calves; and they will make images, and they will worship to all the army of the heavens, and serve Baal.

2 Kings 21:3-5

And he will turn back and build the heights which Hezekiah his father destroyed; and he will raise up altars to Baal, and make a statue as did Ahab king of Israel; and he will worship to all the army of the heavens, and serve' them. And he built altars in the house of Jehovah where Jehovah said, In Jerusalem I will put my name. And he will build altars to all the army of the heavens in the two enclosures of the house of Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 33:5

And he will build altars to all the army of the heavens in the two enclosures of the house of Jehovah.

Acts 28:11

And after three months we were conveyed in a ship, having wintered in the island, of Alexandria, marked, Sons of Jove.

Isaiah 47:13

Thou wert wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Shall those searching out the heavens, those looking upon the stars, causing to know concerning the months, now stand and save thee from what shall come upon thee?

Daniel 2:2-5

And the king will say to call to the sacred scribes, and to the enchanters, and to the sorcerers, and to the Chaldeans, to announce to the king his dreams. And they will come and stand before the king. And the king will say to them, I dreamed a dream, and my spirit will be moved to know the dream. And the Ohaldeans will speak to the king Syriac: O king, live forever: say to thy servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.read more.
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The word went out from me: if ye will not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, ye shall be made pieces, and your houses shall be set dung-hills.

Daniel 4:7

At that time the sacred scribes, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners, coming in: and I told the dream before them: and its interpretation they making not known to me.

Isaiah 34:4

And all the army of the heavens melted, and the heavens shall roll together as a book, and all their army shall fall away as the leaf falling from the vine, and as a falling from the fig tree.

Ezekiel 32:7-8

And I covered the heavens in my quenching thee, and I darkened their stars; and I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not enlighten with its light All the luminaries of light in the heavens I will darken them over thee, and I gave darkness upon thy land, says the Lord Jehovah.

Revelation 6:13

And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, shaken by a great wind.

Matthew 2:9-10

And they having heard the king went forth; and, behold the star they saw in the sunrising, it led before them, till having come, it stood above where the young child was. And seeing the star, they rejoiced with great joy exceedingly.

Genesis 15:5

And he will bring him forth without, and will say, Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to count them: and he will say to him, So shall be thy seed.

Deuteronomy 10:22

With seventy souls thy fathers went down to Egypt; and now Jehovah set thee as the stain of the heavens for multitude.

1 Chronicles 27:23

And David lifted not up their number, from the son of twenty years and beneath: for Jehovah said to multiply Israel as the stars of the heavens.

Nehemiah 9:23

And their sons thou didst multiply as the stars of the heavens, and thou wilt bring them to the land which thou saidst to their fathers to come in to possess

Jeremiah 33:22

As the army of the heavens shall not be numbered and the sand of the sea shall not be measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites serving me.

Hebrews 11:12

Wherefore also from one were they born, and these of him having been dead, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand near the lip of the sea innumerable.

Numbers 24:17

I shall see him and not now: I shall look after him, and not near: a star came forth from Jacob, and a rod rose up from Israel and dashed in pieces the faces of Moab, and undermined all the sons of Seth.

Isaiah 14:12-13

How thou fallest from the heavens, brilliant star, son of the morning! thou wert cut off to the earth, overthrowing upon the nations! And thou saidst in thy heart, I will go up to the heavens; from above to the stars of God I will lift up my throne, and I will sit upon the mountain of appointment in the thighs of the north.

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Astronomy » Moon » Stars

Genesis 1:16

And God will make two great lights; the great light for the rule of the day, and the small light for the rule of the night and the stars.

Judges 5:20

From the heavens they fought; The stars from their raised ways fought with Sisera.

Christian ministers » Servants » Stars

Revelation 1:20

The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest upon my right hand, and the seven golden chandeliers. The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches: and the seven chandeliers which thou sawest are the seven churches.

Revelation 2:1

To the messenger of the Ephesian church write: Thus says he holding the seven stars in his right hand, he walking about in the midst of the seven golden chandeliers;

Names » Of ministers » Stars

Revelation 1:20

The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest upon my right hand, and the seven golden chandeliers. The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches: and the seven chandeliers which thou sawest are the seven churches.

Righteous » Compared with » Stars

compared to Saints » Stars

Stars » Worshiped

Jeremiah 19:13

And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah were defiled as the place of Tophet to all the houses which they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the army of the heavens, and pouring out libations to other gods

2 Kings 21:3

And he will turn back and build the heights which Hezekiah his father destroyed; and he will raise up altars to Baal, and make a statue as did Ahab king of Israel; and he will worship to all the army of the heavens, and serve' them.

2 Kings 17:16

And they will forsake all the commands of Jehovah their God, and make to them a molten thing, two Calves; and they will make images, and they will worship to all the army of the heavens, and serve Baal.

Amos 5:26

Ye lifted up the tent of your king and the statue of your images, the star of your God which he made for you.

2 Kings 23:5

And he caused the obscurations to cease which the kings of Judah gave, and he will burn incense in the heights in the cities of Judah, and those being round about Jerusalem, and those burning incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the army of the heavens.

Stars » Darkening of

Isaiah 34:4

And all the army of the heavens melted, and the heavens shall roll together as a book, and all their army shall fall away as the leaf falling from the vine, and as a falling from the fig tree.

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of the heavens and the giants of the sky shall not shine their light: the sun was darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

Joel 2:10

The earth was moved before his face; the heavens trembled: the sun and the moon were darkened, and the stars took away their shining:

Ecclesiastes 12:2

Till when the sun shall not be darkened, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, and the clouds turned not back after the rain:

Stars » Falling of

Revelation 12:4

And his tail draws the third of the stars of heaven, and he cast them into the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman about to bring forth, that when she should bring forth he might devour her child.

Revelation 6:13

And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, shaken by a great wind.

Revelation 9:1

And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the well of the bottomless pit.

Revelation 8:10

And the third angel sounded the trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, burning as a torch, and it fell upon a third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

More verses: Daniel 8:10 Mark 13:25

Stars » Created by God

Genesis 1:16

And God will make two great lights; the great light for the rule of the day, and the small light for the rule of the night and the stars.

Amos 5:8

He made the seven stars and Orion, and he turned the shadow of death to the morning, and he darkened the day to night: calling to the water of the sea, and he will pour them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah his name:

More verses: Psalm 136:9 Psalm 136:7

Stars » The morning star

Stars » Orion

Amos 5:8

He made the seven stars and Orion, and he turned the shadow of death to the morning, and he darkened the day to night: calling to the water of the sea, and he will pour them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah his name:

Stars » Figurative » Seven stars of the seven congregations

Revelation 1:20

The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest upon my right hand, and the seven golden chandeliers. The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches: and the seven chandeliers which thou sawest are the seven churches.

Stars » Differ in splendor

1 Corinthians 15:41

One glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for star differs from star in glory.

Stars » Constellations of

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of the heavens and the giants of the sky shall not shine their light: the sun was darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

Stars » Comets

Jude 1:13

Fierce waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom the obseurity of darkness has been kept forever.

Stars » Serpent

Stars » Figurative » Of the deliverer

Numbers 24:17

I shall see him and not now: I shall look after him, and not near: a star came forth from Jacob, and a rod rose up from Israel and dashed in pieces the faces of Moab, and undermined all the sons of Seth.

Stars » Planets

2 Kings 23:5

And he caused the obscurations to cease which the kings of Judah gave, and he will burn incense in the heights in the cities of Judah, and those being round about Jerusalem, and those burning incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the army of the heavens.

Stars » Figurative » Crown of twelve stars

Stars » Forbidden worship

Deuteronomy 4:19

And lest thou shalt lift up thine eyes to the heavens, and seeing the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of the heavens, and thou wert driven and didst worship to them, and didst serve them, which Jehovah thy God divided them out to all the peoples under all the heavens.

Stars » Illustrative » (withdrawing their light,) of severe judgments

Ezekiel 32:7

And I covered the heavens in my quenching thee, and I darkened their stars; and I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not enlighten with its light

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of the heavens and the giants of the sky shall not shine their light: the sun was darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

Joel 2:10

The earth was moved before his face; the heavens trembled: the sun and the moon were darkened, and the stars took away their shining:

Stars » God » Created

Genesis 1:16

And God will make two great lights; the great light for the rule of the day, and the small light for the rule of the night and the stars.

Psalm 148:5

They shall praise the name of Jehovah, for he commanded and they were created:

Stars » The israelites forbidden to worship

Deuteronomy 4:19

And lest thou shalt lift up thine eyes to the heavens, and seeing the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of the heavens, and thou wert driven and didst worship to them, and didst serve them, which Jehovah thy God divided them out to all the peoples under all the heavens.

Deuteronomy 17:2-4

When there shall be found in the midst of thee in one of thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, a man or a woman who shall do evil in the eyes of Jehovah thy God to pass by his covenant, And he will go and serve other gods and will worship to them, and to the sun or to the moon, or to any of the army of the heavens, which I commanded not; And it was announced to thee, and thou heardest and sought out, doing well; and behold, the truth and the word certain this abomination being done in Israel.

Stars » Called » The host of heaven

Deuteronomy 17:3

And he will go and serve other gods and will worship to them, and to the sun or to the moon, or to any of the army of the heavens, which I commanded not;

Jeremiah 33:22

As the army of the heavens shall not be numbered and the sand of the sea shall not be measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites serving me.

Stars » Illustrative » Of ministers

Revelation 2:1

To the messenger of the Ephesian church write: Thus says he holding the seven stars in his right hand, he walking about in the midst of the seven golden chandeliers;

Stars » Mentioned in scripture » Pleiades,

Job 38:31

Wilt thou bind the bands of the cluster, or wilt thou open the cords of Orion?

Amos 5:8

He made the seven stars and Orion, and he turned the shadow of death to the morning, and he darkened the day to night: calling to the water of the sea, and he will pour them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah his name:

Stars » Mentioned in scripture » Orion

Job 38:31

Wilt thou bind the bands of the cluster, or wilt thou open the cords of Orion?

Amos 5:8

He made the seven stars and Orion, and he turned the shadow of death to the morning, and he darkened the day to night: calling to the water of the sea, and he will pour them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah his name:

Stars » Illustrative » Of princes and subordinate governors

Revelation 8:12

And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet, and the third of the sun was stricken, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars; that a third of them might be darkened, and the day shone not, a third of it, and the night likewise.

Daniel 8:10

And it will be great even to the army of the heavens; and it will cast to the earth from the army, and from the stars, and it will tread them down.

Stars » Idolaters worshipped

Jeremiah 19:13

And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah were defiled as the place of Tophet to all the houses which they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the army of the heavens, and pouring out libations to other gods

Jeremiah 8:2

And they spread them to the sun and to the moon, and to all the army of the heavens which they loved, and which they served, and which they, went after, and which they sought and which they worshiped to them: they shall not be gathered and they shall not be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

Stars » Infinite in number

Genesis 15:5

And he will bring him forth without, and will say, Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to count them: and he will say to him, So shall be thy seed.

Jeremiah 33:2

Thus said Jehovah making it Jehovah forming it, to prepare it, Jehovah his name:

Stars » God » Appointed to give light by night

Genesis 1:16

And God will make two great lights; the great light for the rule of the day, and the small light for the rule of the night and the stars.

Stars » When grouped together called constellations

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of the heavens and the giants of the sky shall not shine their light: the sun was darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

2 Kings 23:5

And he caused the obscurations to cease which the kings of Judah gave, and he will burn incense in the heights in the cities of Judah, and those being round about Jerusalem, and those burning incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the army of the heavens.

Stars » God » Established, for ever

Psalm 148:6

And he will cause them to stand even to forever: he gave a law and it shall not pass away.

Stars » One of extraordinary brightness (a meteor) appeared at Christ's birth

Matthew 2:9

And they having heard the king went forth; and, behold the star they saw in the sunrising, it led before them, till having come, it stood above where the young child was.

Stars » Exhibit the greatness of God's power

Stars » Appear after sunset

Job 3:9

The stars of its twilight shall he dark; it shall wait for light, and none; and it shall not look upon the eyelashes of the dawn.,

Nehemiah 4:21

And we doing in the work: and half of them holding fast upon the spears from the ascending of the dawn even till the coming forth of the stars.

Stars » False gods frequently worshipped under the representation of

Amos 5:26

Ye lifted up the tent of your king and the statue of your images, the star of your God which he made for you.

Acts 7:43

And ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, types which ye made to worship them: and I will transplant you beyond Babylon.

Stars » Appear of different magnitudes

1 Corinthians 15:41

One glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for star differs from star in glory.

Stars » Mentioned in scripture » Arcturus

Job 38:32

Wilt thou bring forth the twelve signs in its time? and the great bear and his sons, wilt thou guide them?

Stars » Punishment for worshipping

Deuteronomy 17:5-7

And bring thou forth that man or that woman who did this evil word, to thy gates, the man and the woman, and stone them with stones, and they died. At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses they shall be put to death; they shall not die by the mouth of one witness. The hand of the witnesses shall be at first upon him to put him to death, and the hand of all the people afterward. And put thou away the evil from the midst of thee.

Stars » Illustrative » (bright and morning star,) of Christ

Stars » Mentioned in scripture » Morning star

Stars » Illustrative » (morning star,) of glory to be given to faithful saints

Stars » Illustrative » Of Christ

Numbers 24:17

I shall see him and not now: I shall look after him, and not near: a star came forth from Jacob, and a rod rose up from Israel and dashed in pieces the faces of Moab, and undermined all the sons of Seth.

Stars » Called » Stars of heaven

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of the heavens and the giants of the sky shall not shine their light: the sun was darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

Stars » God » Set, in the firmament of heaven

Genesis 1:17

And God will give them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth.

Stars » Astrology and star-gazing practised by the babylonians, &c

Isaiah 47:13

Thou wert wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Shall those searching out the heavens, those looking upon the stars, causing to know concerning the months, now stand and save thee from what shall come upon thee?

Stars » Illustrative » (setting the nest amongst,) of pride and carnal security

Obadiah 1:4

If thou shalt exalt as the eagle, and set thy nest between the stars, from thence will I bring thee down, says Jehovah.

Stars » Illustrative » (shining of,) of the reward of faithful ministers

Stars » Called » Stars of light

Stars » God » Numbers and names

Stars » Shine in the firmament of heaven

Stars » Revolve in fixed orbits

Judges 5:20

From the heavens they fought; The stars from their raised ways fought with Sisera.

Stars » Made to praise God

Stars » Use of, in navigation, alluded to

Acts 27:20

And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small tempest impending, finally all hope for us to be saved was removed.

Stars » Mentioned in scripture » Mazzaroth

Job 38:32

Wilt thou bring forth the twelve signs in its time? and the great bear and his sons, wilt thou guide them?

Stars » Illustrative » (wandering,) of false teachers

Jude 1:13

Fierce waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom the obseurity of darkness has been kept forever.

Stars » Illustrative » Of angels

Stars » Impure in the sight of God

Job 25:5

Behold even to the moon, and it shall not shine; and the stars were not clean in his eyes.

Stars » God » Obscures

Titles and names of ministers » Stars

Revelation 1:20-1

The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest upon my right hand, and the seven golden chandeliers. The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches: and the seven chandeliers which thou sawest are the seven churches. To the messenger of the Ephesian church write: Thus says he holding the seven stars in his right hand, he walking about in the midst of the seven golden chandeliers;

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Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of the heavens and the giants of the sky shall not shine their light: the sun was darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

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