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 knows when to set.
• Deut 4:19and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
• Jer 31:35Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:
• Ps 74:16–17The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
• Ps 136:7–9To him who made the great lights; for his loving kindness endures forever:
• Ps 148:3Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!
• Ps 8:3–4When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
• Amos 5:8seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
• Ps 148:6He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.
• Joel 3:15The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
• Jer 10:2Yahweh says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.
• Gen 8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
• Joel 2:30–31I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
• Ps 81:3Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
• Luke 21:25–26There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;
• Isa 40:26Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.
• Ezek 32:7–8When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
• Joel 2:10The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
• Jer 33:20“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
• Amos 8:9It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
• Jer 33:25Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
• Matt 24:29But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
• Ezek 46:1Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
• Matt 16:2–3But he answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’
• Rev 6:12I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
• Job 25:5Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;
• Matt 2:2“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”
• Gen 9:13I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
• Job 38:31–32“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
• Job 38:12–14“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;
• Ps 19:1–6For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
• Luke 23:45The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
• Ezek 46:6On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without defect:
• Mark 13:24But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,
• Ps 119:91Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.
• Job 3:9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
• Rev 8:12The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn’t shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.
• Acts 2:19–20I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
• Rev 9:2He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.
• Job 25:3Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

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