Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

Bible References

And let

Genesis 8:22
“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat,
And summer and winter,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”
Genesis 9:13
I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
Job 3:9
“Let the stars of its twilight be darkened;
Let it wait for light but have none,
And let it not see the breaking dawn;
Job 38:31
“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades,
Or loose the cords of Orion?
Psalm 81:3
Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
At the full moon, on our feast day.
Ezekiel 32:7
“And when I extinguish you,
I will cover the heavens and darken their stars;
I will cover the sun with a cloud
And the moon will not give its light.
Ezekiel 46:1
‘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.
Joel 2:10
Before them the earth quakes,
The heavens tremble,
The sun and the moon grow dark
And the stars lose their brightness.
Joel 3:15
The sun and moon grow dark
And the stars lose their brightness.
Amos 5:8
He who made the Pleiades and Orion
And changes deep darkness into morning,
Who also darkens day into night,
Who calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the surface of the earth,
The Lord is His name.
Amos 8:9
“It will come about in that day,” declares the Lord God,
“That I will make the sun go down at noon
And make the earth dark in broad daylight.
Matthew 2:2
“Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
Matthew 16:2
But He replied to them, When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’
Matthew 24:29
“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.
Mark 13:24
“But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light,
Luke 21:25
“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,
Luke 23:45
because the sun was obscured; and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
Acts 2:19
And I will grant wonders in the sky above
And signs on the earth below,
Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.
Revelation 6:12
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;
Revelation 8:12
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.
Revelation 9:2
He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

General references

Psalm 104:19
He made the moon for the seasons;
The sun knows the place of its setting.
Psalm 136:7
To Him who made the great lights,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting:
Jonah 2:10
Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.
1 Corinthians 15:41
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.

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