'Moon' in the Bible

Now he had still another dream, and related it to his brothers, and said, “Lo, I have had still another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

besides the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.

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.

and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, which I have not commanded,

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.”

So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped,Until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies.Is it not written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.

So David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I ought to sit down to eat with the king. But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field until the third evening.

Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed because your seat will be empty.

So David hid in the field; and when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food.

It came about the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David’s place was empty; so Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”

Then Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did not eat food on the second day of the new moon, for he was grieved over David because his father had dishonored him.

He said, “Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath.” And she said, “It will be well.”

He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven.

for the showbread, for the continual grain offering, for the continual burnt offering, the sabbaths, the new moon, for the appointed times, for the holy things and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

“If even the moon has no brightnessAnd the stars are not pure in His sight,

“He obscures the face of the full moonAnd spreads His cloud over it.

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

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;

Let them fear You while the sun endures,And as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

In his days may the righteous flourish,And abundance of peace till the moon is no more.

Blow the trumpet at the new moon,At the full moon, on our feast day.

“It shall be established forever like the moon,And the witness in the sky is faithful.” Selah.

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

The sun will not smite you by day,Nor the moon by night.

The moon and stars to rule by night,For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

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

He has taken a bag of money with him,At the full moon he will come home.”

before the sun and the light, the moon and the stars are darkened, and clouds return after the rain;

‘Who is this that grows like the dawn,As beautiful as the full moon,As pure as the sun,As awesome as an army with banners?’

“Bring your worthless offerings no longer,Incense is an abomination to Me.New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly.

“I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts,They have become a burden to Me;I am weary of bearing them.

For the stars of heaven and their constellationsWill not flash forth their light;The sun will be dark when it risesAnd 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 light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day the Lord binds up the fracture of His people and heals the bruise He has inflicted.

“No longer will you have the sun for light by day,Nor for brightness will the moon give you light;But you will have the Lord for an everlasting light,And your God for your glory.

“Your sun will no longer set,Nor will your moon wane;For you will have the Lord for an everlasting light,And the days of your mourning will be over.

“And it shall be from new moon to new moonAnd from sabbath to sabbath,All mankind will come to bow down before Me,” says the Lord.

They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have gone after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried; they will be as dung on the face of the ground.

Thus says the Lord,Who gives the sun for light by dayAnd the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar;The Lord of hosts is His name:

“And when I extinguish you,I will cover the heavens and darken their stars;I will cover the sun with a cloudAnd the moon will not give its light.

‘Thus says the Lord God, “The gate of the inner court facing east shall be shut the six working days; but it shall be opened on the sabbath day and opened on the day of the new moon.

On the day of the new moon he shall offer a young bull without blemish, also six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.

They have dealt treacherously against the Lord,For they have borne illegitimate children.Now the new moon will devour them with their land.

Before them the earth quakes,The heavens tremble,The sun and the moon grow darkAnd the stars lose their brightness.

“The sun will be turned into darknessAnd the moon into bloodBefore the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

The sun and moon grow darkAnd the stars lose their brightness.

saying,“When will the new moon be over,So that we may sell grain,And the sabbath, that we may open the wheat market,To make the bushel smaller and the shekel bigger,And to cheat with dishonest scales,

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.

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

“There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,

‘The sun will be turned into darknessAnd the moon into blood,Before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come.

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.

Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day—

I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;

The fourth angel sounded, and a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a third of it, and the night in the same way.

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;

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.