'Stars' in the Bible

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.

And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

Now he had still another dream, and related it to his brothers, and said, “Lo, I have had still another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

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.

Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

“The stars fought from heaven,From their courses they fought against Sisera.

But David did not count those twenty years of age and under, because the Lord had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

So we carried on the work with half of them holding spears from dawn until the stars appeared.

“You made their sons numerous as the stars of heaven,And You brought them into the landWhich You had told their fathers to enter and possess.

“Let the stars of its twilight be darkened;Let it wait for light but have none,And let it not see the breaking dawn;

Who commands the sun not to shine,And sets a seal upon the stars;

“Is not God in the height of heaven?Look also at the distant stars, how high they are!

“If even the moon has no brightnessAnd the stars are not pure in His sight,

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

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

The moon and stars to rule by night,For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

He counts the number of the stars;He gives names to all of them.

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

before the sun and the light, the moon and the stars are darkened, and clouds return after the rain;

For the stars of heaven and their constellationsWill not flash forth their light;The sun will be dark when it risesAnd the moon will not shed its light.

“But you said in your heart,‘I will ascend to heaven;I will raise my throne above the stars of God,And I will sit on the mount of assemblyIn the recesses of the north.

Lift up your eyes on highAnd 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.

“You are wearied with your many counsels;Let now the astrologers,Those who prophesy by the stars,Those who predict by the new moons,Stand up and save you from what will come upon you.

Thus says the Lord,Who gives the sun for light by dayAnd the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar;The Lord of hosts is His name:

“And when I extinguish you,I will cover the heavens and darken their stars;I will cover the sun with a cloudAnd the moon will not give its light.

It grew up to the host of heaven and caused some of the host and some of the stars to fall to the earth, and it trampled them down.

Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

Before them the earth quakes,The heavens tremble,The sun and the moon grow darkAnd the stars lose their brightness.

The sun and moon grow darkAnd the stars lose their brightness.

“Though you build high like the eagle,Though you set your nest among the stars,From there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven—The creeping locust strips and flies away.

“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.

and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.

“There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,

Since neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm was assailing us, from then on all hope of our being saved was gradually abandoned.

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.

Therefore there was born even of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many descendants as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

In His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword; and His face was like the sun shining in its strength.

As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:The One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands, says this:

“To the angel of the church in Sardis write:He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.

and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind.

The fourth angel sounded, and a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a third of it, and the night in the same way.

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;

And his tail *swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.