Genesis 1:16

The Creation

¹⁵ and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. ¹⁶ 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. ¹⁷ God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,

God Made

Greater Light to Rule the Day

Have Dominion Over

Light to Rule the Day

Rule Over

Job 38:7

When the morning stars sang together
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Psalm 8:3

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;

Deuteronomy 4:19

And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

Psalm 136:7-9

To Him who made the great lights,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting:

Joshua 10:12-14

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.”

Job 31:26

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

Psalm 19:6

Its rising is from one end of the heavens,
And its circuit to the other end of them;
And there is nothing hidden from its heat.

Psalm 74:16

Yours is the day, Yours also is the night;
You have prepared the light and the sun.

Psalm 148:3

Praise Him, sun and moon;
Praise Him, all stars of light!

Psalm 148:5

Let them praise the name of the Lord,
For He commanded and they were created.

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash forth their light;
The sun will be dark when it rises
And the moon will not shed its light.

Isaiah 24:23

Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed,
For the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
And His glory will be before His elders.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high
And see who has created these stars,
The One who leads forth their host by number,
He calls them all by name;
Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power,
Not one of them is missing.

Isaiah 45:7

The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.

Habakkuk 3:11

Sun and moon stood in their places;
They went away at the light of Your arrows,
At the radiance of Your gleaming spear.

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.

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour.

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.

Revelation 16:8-9

The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.

Revelation 21:23

And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.