Genesis 1:16

God makes the sun, moon, and stars to govern day and night. The greatest cosmic bodies are simply God's creatures, made to serve.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 136:7–9To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
• 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.
• Ps 8:3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
• Ps 74:16The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
• 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.
• Ps 148:5Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
• Job 38:7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
• Ps 148:3Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
• Isa 13:10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
• 1 Cor 15:41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
• Matt 27:45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
• Hab 3:11The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
• Isa 45:7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
• Rev 16:8–9And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
• Ps 19:6His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
• Isa 24:23Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
• Job 31:26If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
• 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:
• Rev 21:23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
• Josh 10:12–14Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

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