Deuteronomy 4:19

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Summary

And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

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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 the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

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

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.

Then He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

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Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?

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God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.

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.”

“You alone are the Lord.

You have made the heavens,

The heaven of heavens with all their host,
The earth and all that is on it,
The seas and all that is in them.

You give life to all of them

And the heavenly host bows down before You.

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!

Thus says the Lord,
Who gives the sun for light by day
And 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:

Thus says the Lord, ‘If My covenant for day and night stand not, and the fixed patterns of heaven and earth I have not established,

so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

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“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

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:

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.