Genesis 1:14

God commands lights in the sky to separate day from night and mark times. The heavens are given to order our seasons and calendars.

Cross-references · 40

• Ps 104:19–20He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
• Deut 4:19When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
• Jer 31:35Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
• Ps 74:16–17The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
• Ps 136:7–9He made the great lights—His loving devotion endures forever.
• Ps 148:3Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.
• Ps 8:3–4When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
• Amos 5:8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—
• Ps 148:6He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.
• Joel 3:15The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.
• Jer 10:2This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.
• Gen 8:22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
• Joel 2:30–31I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
• Ps 81:3Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
• Luke 21:25–26There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
• Isa 40:26Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
• Ezek 32:7–8When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
• Joel 2:10Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.
• Jer 33:20“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
• Amos 8:9And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
• Jer 33:25This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
• Matt 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
• Ezek 46:1“This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.
• Matt 16:2–3But He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘The weather will be fair, for the sky is red,’
• Rev 6:12And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
• Job 25:5If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
• Matt 2:2asking, “Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
• Gen 9:13I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
• Job 38:31–32Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
• Job 38:12–14In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
• Ps 19:1–6For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
• Luke 23:45The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn down the middle.
• Ezek 46:6On the day of the New Moon he shall offer a young, unblemished bull, six lambs, and a ram without blemish.
• Mark 13:24But in those days, after that tribulation: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
• Ps 119:91Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things are servants to You.
• Job 3:9May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
• Rev 8:12Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.
• Acts 2:19–20I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
• Rev 9:2The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
• Job 25:3Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?

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