Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Bible References
To rule
Matthew 24:29
"But immediately after the terrible trouble of those days, [i.e., the next major event on God's calendar], the sun will become dark, and [therefore] the moon will not [be able to] shed its [reflected] light. The stars will fall from the sky and the forces of the heavens will be shaken [Note: From the description of these same events in Luke 21:25-26, it is possible that this is figurative language for great calamities happening on the earth].
Matthew 27:45
Now from noon until three o'clock in the afternoon there was darkness over all the land.
1 Corinthians 15:41
The sun has one [kind] of splendor, and the moon has another [kind], and the stars [still] another. For [even] one star's splendor is different from another's.
Revelation 16:8
Then the fourth [angel] poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to burn people with [its] fire.
Revelation 21:23
And the city does not need the sun or the moon to illuminate it, for the splendor of God provides the light for it, and its lamp is the Lamb.