'Sky' in the Bible

And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them.

They also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.”

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

I will display wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth below: blood, fire, and clouds of smoke.

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

"'The sky is My throne, and earth is the footstool for My feet. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or what resting place shall I have?

As he traveled, it happened that he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

and he *saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,

In it were all the four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, and the birds of the sky.

This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into the sky.

“I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came right down to me,

When I looked closely and considered it, I saw the four-footed animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky.

"But a voice answered, speaking a second time from the sky, "'What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy.'

This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into the sky.

"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

After the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of that [sacred stone image of her] which fell from the sky?

It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great light around me.

at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.