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
Bible References
To rule
Deuteronomy 4:19
Yea, and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars and whatsoever is contained in heaven, shouldest be deceived and shouldest bow thyself unto them and serve the things which the LORD thy God hath distributed unto all nations that are under all quarters of heaven.
Joshua 10:12
Then spake Joshua unto the LORD, the day when the LORD delivered the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of all Israel, "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon."
Job 31:26
Did I ever greatly regard the rising of the sun? Or, had I the going down of the moon in great reputation?
Job 38:7
Where wast thou, when the morning stars praised me together, and all the children of God rejoiced triumphantly?
Psalm 8:3
For I will consider thy heavens, even the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained.
Psalm 19:6
It goeth forth from the uttermost part of the heaven, and runneth about unto the end of it again; and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Psalm 74:16
The day is thine. The night is thine. Thou hast prepared the lights and the sun.
Psalm 136:7
Which hath made great lights! For his mercy endureth forever.
Psalm 148:3
Praise him sun and moon; praise him all ye stars and light.
Isaiah 13:10
For the stars and planets of heaven shall not give their light; the sun shall be quenched in the rising, and the moon will not shine with his light.
Isaiah 24:23
The Moon and the Sun shall be ashamed, when the LORD of Hosts shall reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem with worship, and in the sight of such as shall be of his counsel.
Isaiah 45:7
It is I that created the light, and darkness. I make peace, and trouble: yea, even I the LORD do all these things.
Habakkuk 3:11
The Sun and Moon remained still in their habitation. Thine arrows went out glistering, and thy spears as the shine of the lightning.
Matthew 24:29
Immediately after the tribulations of those days, shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall move.
Matthew 27:45
From the sixth hour, was there darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
1 Corinthians 15:41
There is one manner glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, an another glory of the stars. For one star differeth from another in glory.
Revelation 16:8
And the fourth angel poured out his vial on the sun, and power was given unto him to vex men with heat of fire.
Revelation 21:23
And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to lighten it. For the brightness of God did light it: and the lamb was the light of it.
General references
Psalm 104:19
Thou hast appointed the moon for certain seasons, the sun knoweth his going down.
Psalm 136:7
Which hath made great lights! For his mercy endureth forever.