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 appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
• Deut 4:19And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
• Jer 31:35Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
• Ps 74:16–17The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
• Ps 136:7–9To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
• Ps 148:3Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
• Ps 8:3–4When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
• Amos 5:8Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
• Ps 148:6He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
• Joel 3:15The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
• Jer 10:2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
• Gen 8:22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
• Joel 2:30–31And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
• Ps 81:3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
• Luke 21:25–26And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
• Isa 40:26Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
• Ezek 32:7–8And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
• Joel 2:10The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
• Jer 33:20Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
• Amos 8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
• Jer 33:25Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
• Matt 24:29Immediately after the tribulation 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 the heavens shall be shaken:
• Ezek 46:1Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
• Matt 16:2–3He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
• Rev 6:12And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
• Job 25:5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
• Matt 2:2Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
• Gen 9:13I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
• Job 38:31–32Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
• Job 38:12–14Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
• Ps 19:1–6The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
• Luke 23:45And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
• Ezek 46:6And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.
• Mark 13:24But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
• Ps 119:91They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
• Job 3:9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
• Rev 8:12And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
• Acts 2:19–20And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
• Rev 9:2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
• Job 25:3Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

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