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 host of heaven, which I have forbidden,

And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. 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 moving in splendor,

And they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. And they shall not be gathered or buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of 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, worshiping the sun toward the east.

"Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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And God made the two great lights--the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night--and the stars.

At that time Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon."

"You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.

Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.

to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars!

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 I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,

so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

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"You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.

to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures forever;

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.