Genesis 1:16

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.

To rule

General references

Psalm 104:19

Psalm 136:7

Bible References

To rule

And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

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."

if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor,

when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.

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!

For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the LORD of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and his glory will be before his elders.

I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things.

The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.

"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 heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

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.

The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire.

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

General references

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;