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

Do not be tempted to bow down and worship the sun or moon or stars (the host or army of the heavens). Jehovah put them there a heritage for all the people under the heavens.

Joshua spoke to Jehovah the day when Jehovah delivered the Amorites to the children of Israel. He said in sight of Israel: Sun, stand still upon Gibeon; and Moon, stand still in the valley of Ajalon.

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

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

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

It rises from one end of the heavens. It circles around to the other. Nothing is hidden from its heat.

The day and the night are yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

To him who made the great lights. His loving kindness is everlasting:

Praise him, sun and moon. Praise him, all shining stars.

The stars of heaven and their constellations will not shine forth their light. The sun will be dark when it rises and the moon will not shine its light.

Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed, For Jehovah of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, And his glory will be before his elders.

I make light and create darkness. I make blessings and create disasters. I, Jehovah, do all these things.

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation. They went away at the light of your arrows and the shining of your glittering spear.

Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened. The moon will not give light. The stars will fall from heaven. 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 one star differs from another star in glory.

The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun. Authority was given to him to scorch men with fire.

The city did not need the sun or the moon to shine on it. For the glory of God and of the Lamb was its light.

General references

You made the moon for the seasons. The sun knows the place of its setting.

To him who made the great lights. His loving kindness is everlasting: