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.

When thou

Which the lord

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When thou

By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;

Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el

If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.

And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east.

Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?

Which the lord

And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon.

You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.

The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light.

These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.

The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me,

So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.

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You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.

To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for the glory of one star is different from that of another.